7. DEiroSCECA. 297 



16. Dendrceca virens. 



The Black-throated Greeu Flycatcher, Edw. Glean, ii. p. 100, pi. 300 



(1760). 

 Le Figuier a gorge noir de Pensilvanie, Briss. Orn. vi. App. p. 104 



(1760). 

 Le Figuier a cravatte noire, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. v. p. 298 (1778). 

 Green Warbler, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 2, p. 484 (1783) ; Penn. Arct. 



Zool. ii. p. 404 (1785). 

 Motacilla ™eus, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 985 (1788). 

 QsWiSiyvcens, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 537 (1790); Vieill. Ois. Amer. 

 'Sept. ii. p. 33, pi. 02 (1807) ; Wils. Amer. Orn. ii. p. 1.37, pi. 17. 



fig. 3 (1810) ; Audub. B. Amer. pi. 329. %s. 2, 4 ; id. Orn. Bioip: 



V. p. 70 (1838) ; Giifke, Naum. 1858, p. 42.3. 

 Parus Tiiidis gutture nigro, Bartr. Trav. Florida, p. 202 (1701). 

 Sylvicola virens, Jard. ed. Wih. Amer. Orn. i. p. 279 (1832) ; Richards. 



liep. Brit. Assoc. 1836-37, p. 172; Bp. Comp. List B. Bur. ^- N. 



A?ner. p. 22 (1838) ; Auduh. Syn. p. 55 (1839) ; id. B. Amer. ii. 



p. 42, pi. 84 (1841) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 307 (1850) ; TJ'oodh. in 



Sitffr. Rep. Zuni River, p. 70 (1853). 

 Mniotilta virens, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 196 (1848) ; Reinh. Ibis, 1861, 



p. o ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i..p. 240, no. 3482 (1869). 

 lihimamphus virens. Cab. Mit-f. Jlein. i.'p. 19 (1850) ; Gundl. J.f. 0. 



1855, p. 474; Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 291. 

 Dendroica virens, Baird, B. N. Amer. p. 267 (1858) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 



1858, p. 205, 1850, p. 373; id. %■ Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 11; 



Gundl. J.f. O. 1861, p. 326 ; Baird, Rev. Amer. B. p. 182 (1865) ; 



Latvr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii. p. 284 (1866) ; Sumichr. Mem. Bost. 



Soc. N. H. i. p. 546 (1860) ; Von Frantz. J. f. 0. 1869, p. 203 ; Baird, 



Breicer, 8,- Ridgiv. Hist. N. A. B. i. p. 261, pi. 12. tig. 4 (1874). 

 DendrcBca vii-ens, Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 363 ; id. Cat. Amer. B. p. 29 



(1862) ; Scl. Sf Salv. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 347 ; Scl. Ibis, 1865, p. 89 ; 



Dresser, t. c. p. 477 ; Later. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 94 (1868) ; 



Sundev. CEfv. K. Vet.-Akad. Forh. Stoc'kh. 18(i9, p. 611 ; Salv. PZ.S. 



1870, p. 182 ; Coties, Key N. Amer. B. p. 97 (1872) ; Scl. i,- Salv. 



]\o7neml. Av. Neotr. p. (1873) ; Coues, B. N.-West, p. 54 (1874); 



Lawr. Bull. U.S. Nat. Miis. no. 4, p. 15 (1876) ; Gutidl. Orn. Cuba, 



p. 64 (1876) ; Coues, B. Color. Vail. p. 241 (1878); Later. Pr. U.S. 



Nat. Mus. i. pp. 54, 486 (1878) ; Merrill, t. c. p. 124 (1878) ; 



Newt. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 552 ; Salv. ^- Godm. Biol. Centr.-Amer., 



Aves, i. p. 137 (1881) ; Ridgiv. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 21, p. 17 



(1881): A. cV F. Newt. Handb. Jamaica, p. 106 (1881); Coues, 



Key N. Amer. B. 2nd ed. p. 298 (1884). 



Adult male in summer plumage. General colour above olive- 

 yellow, slightly streaked on the back with a few black centres to 

 the feathers ; the rump a little brighter yellow, with black centres 

 to the leathers ; scapulars ashy, washed with olive-yellow and 

 centred with black ; lesser wing-coverts ashj' grey ; median and 

 greater series blackish, tipped with white, forming a double wing- 

 bar ; bastard-wing dusky, externally fringed with white ; pri- 

 maiy-coverts and quills dusky, externally edged with ashy grey, 

 lighter on the primaries, the first of which is whitish along the 

 outer web ; upper tail-coverts ashy grey ; tail-feathers dusky, edged 

 with ashy grey e.xternaUy and fringed with white along the inner 

 web ; the outer web white, excepting along the shaft and towards 

 the end; the penultimate feather similarly marked, but also edged 



