304 



MNIOTILTID^. 



a. Ad. sk. 

 d. Ad. sk. 



e. c? ad. sk. 



f. Ad. sk. 

 ff. Ad. sk. 



o. J). aJhilora. 



Eockport, Ohio {Kirtland). 

 Brookville, Indiana, April 



{A. W. Butler). 

 Guatemala. 



ft. D. dominica. 



Florida, Feb. 1. 



Jamaica. 



Jamaica. 



19. Dendroeca graciae. 



Sclater Collection. 

 U.S. Nat. Museum [P.]. 



Gould Collection. 



E. B. Skai-pe, Esq. [P.]. 

 Sclater Collection. 

 Purchased. 



Dendroica gracise, Coues, 3IS. ; Baird, Rev. Amer. B. p. 210 (1865) ; 



Cooper, B. Cal. i. p. 563 (1870) ; Ridg%v. Amer. Nat. vii. p. GOB 



(1873) ; Baird, Brewer, Sf Tlidgw. Hist. N. Amer. B. i. p. 243, 



pi. 14. fig. 10 (1874) ; Hensh. List B. Arizona, p. 156 (1875) ; id. 



Zool.Expl. W. 100th Merid. p. 197 (1876). 

 Dendrceca graciie, Coues, Proc. P/ulad. Acad. 1866, p. 67 ; Sundev. 



(Eft: K Vet.-Akad. Fork. Stockh. 1869, p. 611 ; Elliot, Blustr. 



B. N. Amer. i. pi. 6 (1869) ; Cooper, Amer. Nat. iii. p. 479 (1869); 



CozKs, Key N. Amer. B. p. 103 (1872) ; Scl. ^ Salv. Nomencl. Av. 



Neotr. p. 9 (1873); Coties, B. Color. Vail. p. 292 (1872) ; Ridgio. Bull. 



U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 21, p. 17 (1881) ; Cones, Key N. Amer. B. 



2nd ed. p. 306 (1884). 

 Mniotilta gracis, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 241, no. 3489 (1869). 



Adult male (Fort Whipple, Arizona, May 15 ; Dr. Coues). Ge- 

 neral colour above ashy grey, slightly washed with brown, the 

 mantle and back streaked with black ; rump uniform like the lower 

 back ; upper tail-coverts ashy grey, streaked with black centres to 

 the feathers ; lower wing-coverts like the back ; median and greater 

 series black, externally ashy grey, tipped with white, forming a 

 double wing-bar, that of the median coverts the broader ; bastard- 

 wing and primary-coverts dark brown, fringed with lighter brown ; 

 quills dark brown, edged with ashy brown, greyer on the primaries, 

 whitish on the margin of the first primary ; tail-feathers dark brown, 

 edged with ashy ; the outermost feather white, excepting an oblique 

 mark at the base of the inner web, the shaft, and a mark at the end 

 of the outer web reaching slightly across the tip of the inner web ; 

 the penultimate feather similarly marked, but the white reduced in 

 size, and diminished on the third feather to an ovate spot near the top 

 of the inner web ; head rather more slaty grey, with a few tiny black 

 centres to the feathers of the crown, the sides of the latter having 

 a black line ; a distinct and broad yellow eyebrow reaching to 

 above the eye and continued into a white streak above the car- 

 coverts : ear-coverts and sides of face ashy grey ; lores and ante- 

 rior and posterior edge of eyelid dusky blackish ; upper and 

 under edge of eyelid yellow : a spot below the eye of yellow and 

 white ; cheeks, throat, and fore neck yellow ; remainder of under 

 surface of body duU white, a little browner on the sides o the 

 body, which are streaked with black ; thighs ashy ; under tail- 

 coverts white ; axillaries and under wing-coverts white, the 

 former with ashy bases ; quills dusky below, ashy white along the 



