296 MNIOTILTID^. 



Mm no 21, p. 17 (1881); Brojvn, Btdl. Nutt. Orn. Club, 1882, 



p. 36; Coues, Key N. Amer. B. 2nd ed. p. 300 (1884). 

 Dendroica cluysopareia, Baird, Rev. Amer. B. pp. 183, 267 (1865) ; 



Baird, Brewer, ^- Ridgw. Sist. N. A. Birds, i. p. 260, pi. 12. fig. 6 



(1874). 

 Dendroeca clirysopareia, Sundev. (Efv. K. Vet.-Akad. Fork. Stockh. 



1869, p. 610 ; Cooper, B. Cal. i. p."93 (1870) ; Corns, Key N. Amer. 



B. p. 98 (1872). 

 Mniotilta clirysopareia, Grmj, Band-l. B. i. p. 241, no. 3494 (1869). 



Adult (type of species). General colour above black, the head 

 like the back, with a few narrow margins of olive-yeUow to some of 

 the feathers, a little more distinct on the back, the lower back and 

 rump slightly more ashy ; upper tail-coverts black ; lesser wing- 

 coverts black, edged with ashy ; median and greater series black, 

 margined with ashy and tipped with white, forming a double wing- 

 bar : bastard-wing and primary-coverts uniform blackish brown ; 

 quills blackish, edged with ashy, a little more hoary on the inner 

 secondaries and along the margin of the first primarj- ; tail-feathers 

 black, edged with ashy grey, the outer feathers white, with the 

 shaft and nearly the whole of the outer web black ; on the inner web 

 an oblique black mark ; on the penultimate feather the white much 

 reduced, and on the third feather stiU further reduced to a wedge- 

 shaped mark near the end of the inner web ; head black ; a broad 

 band of golden yellow along the sides of the crown ; the sides of 

 face, cheeks, ear-coverts, and sides of neck golden yeUow ; in front 

 of the eye a black spot and a streak behind the eye above the ear- 

 coverts, widening out behind above the latter ; anterior and posterior 

 edt^e of eyelid black ; entire throat black, extending down on to the 

 sides of the neck ; entire breast, from the fore neck downwards, and 

 abdomen white ; the under tail-coverts white, with black centres to 

 the feathers ; sides of the body and flanks white, thickly mottled 

 with black centres to the feathers ; thighs white ; axiUaries and 

 iinder wing-coverts white, mottled with blackish bases to those near 

 the ed-^e of the wing ; quills dusky below, ashy white along the 

 ed^^e of the inner web. Total length 4-5 inches, eulmen 0-5, wing 

 2'5 tail 2'1, tarsus 0"7o. {Mus. Salvin and Godman.) 



Adult femcde. Differs from the male in being oKve-yellow above, 

 slif'htly mottled with blackish centres on the crown, lower back, aud 

 rump ; upper tail-coverts ashy grey, with black centres ; scapulars 

 uniform ashv grey ; wings as in the male, with two white wing-bars, 

 the median "series very broadly tipped with white, the ashy margins 

 to the quills broader than in the male; tail as in the male; a 

 broad eyebrow and entire sides of face golden yeUow, the black line 

 throuo-h the eye dusky blackish ; base of cheeks and feathers below 

 the eve whitish, as also the base of the chin ; breast aud abdomen 

 white, and streaked with black on the flanks as in the male ; the 

 throat yellow, the lower part and fore neck ashy whitish, over- 

 shading the black throat, which can be traced below ; axillaries 

 and under wing-coverts white ; quills dusky below, white along the 

 edge of the inner web. Total length 4-5 inches, eulmen O-o, wing 

 £•5 tail 2-05, tarsus 0-75. {llus. Salvin and Godman.) 



Hah. Texas ; re-occurring in Guatemala. 



