7. DENDR<ECA, 305 



edge of the inner web : " bill and feet black, the soles dirty yel- 

 lowish; iris black" (Coues). Total length -A'O inches, culmen 0*5, 

 wing 2-55, tail 2, tarsus 0*65. {Mus. Saluin and Godman.) 



Adult in winter jjlmnage. Brown above instead of grey, and the 

 black centres to the feathers of the back narrower and scarcely per- 

 ceptible ; the head brown like the back, the black on the forehead 

 and sides of crown merely indicated by black bases to the feathers ; 

 the white wing-bars slightly shaded with brown ; ear-coverts ashy, 

 slightly washed with brown ; under surface of body as in summer, 

 but the breast and abdomen brownish white, the sides of the body 

 strongly washed with brown. 



Adult female. Quite similar to the male, and in fact scarcely 

 distinguishable from the male in autumn, though the yellow is not 

 quite so strong. {Coues.) 



Youny. The slate-grey of the upper parts much shaded with 

 brownish olive, the black streaks wanting on the back, those on the 

 crown obsolete. Yellow colour much as in the adult, but paler, and 

 not bordered along the sides of the neck with black streaks ; the 

 black lores poorly defined ; wing-bars greyish or obsolete ; the 

 white of the underparts having an ochry tinge, and the lateral 

 streaks not so heavy in colour nor so well-defined. {Coues.) 



Hah. Arizona and New Mexico, wintering in Mexico. 



a. Ad. sk. Arizona {Coues). Sclater Collection. 



b. Ad. sk. N. Mexico. Sclater Collection. 



20. Dendrceca decora. 



DendrcEca gracise (wee Baird), Salv. Ibis, 1873, p, 428 ; Lator. Bull, 



U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 16 (1876). 

 Dendroica gracise, var. decora, kidgiu. Atner. Nat. vii. p. 608 (1873) ; 



Baird, Brewer, Sr Bidgw. Hist. N. Amer. B. i. p.2i>0 (1874). 

 Dendrceca graciie, 0. decora, Coues, B. Color. Vail. p. 29'2 { 1878). 

 Dendrceca decora, Salv. Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 92 (dated 1882) ; id. 8f 



Godm. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 136, pi. x. fig. 1 (1881). 



Adult male. General colour above ashy grey, with faint shaft- 

 streaks of blackish on the upper tail-coverts ; lesser wing-coverts 

 like the back, the median and greater series blackish, edged with 

 ashy grey and tipped with dull ashy whitish, forming an indistinct 

 double wing-bar ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills dusky, 

 edged with ashy, more hoary on the margins of the primaries ; the 

 inner secondaries externally broadly washed with brownish ashy ; 

 tail-feathers blackish, edged with ashy, the outer feathers for the 

 most part white, excepting an oblique basal mark of blackish near 

 the base of the inner web and along the shaft and the outer web, 

 widening slightly towards the end of the feather ; the white mark 

 reduced in size on the penultimate feather and represented only by 

 a longitudinal white streak on the third one ; head like the back, 

 with a few faintly indicated blackish shaft-lines on the forehead ; 

 extreme base of forehead and a broad supercihary streak bright 

 yellow, as well as the upper and under edge of eyelid and a spot 

 below the eye; ear-coverts and aides of neck ashy grey; lores, 



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