306 MNIOTILTIBiE. 



anterior and posterior edges of eyelid blackish, extending in a line 

 below the eye and on to the fore part of the car-coverts ; cheeks 

 and entire throat and fore neck bright yellow, with a narrow line 

 of black separating the throat from the sides of the neck, the grey 

 colour of the latter descending on to the sides of the upper breast 

 and along the sides of the body and flanks ; breast and abdomen 

 ashy white, as also the thighs and under tail-coverts, with a few 

 narrow black streaks on the sides of the body ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries white with ashy bases ; quills dusky below, whitish 

 along the edge of the inner web. Total length 4-1 inches, cul- 

 meu 0*45, wing 2*25, tail 1'7, tarsus 0-55. (j\1us. Cantabr.) 

 Hah. Guatemala. 



21. Dendrceca adelaidse. 



Dendroica adelaidse, Baird, Rev. Amer. B. p. 212 (1865). 

 Dendrceca adelaidse, Sundev. CEfv. K. Vet.-Akad. Fork. Stochh. 1869, 



p. 615; Scl. ^ Salv. NomencL Av. Neotr. p. 9 (1873) ; Cones, B. 



Color. Vail. p. 293 (1878) ; Eidffw. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. v. pp. 525, 



526 (1883). 

 Mniotilta adelaidse, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 241, no. 3500 (1869). 

 Dendroica gracise, var. adelaidse, Baird, Brewer, ^ Midgw. Hist. N. 



Amer. B. i. p. 220 (1874). 



Entire upper parts, and sides of neck as far forward as the eyes, 

 uniform ash-grey. Beneath, including edge of bend of wing, bright 

 yellow ; lining of wings, axillaries, and crissum white. A broad 

 yellow line from bill to eye, with the eyelids yellow ; forehead and 

 sides of vertex black ; a black loral line. Wings with two con- 

 spicuous white bands ; the quills and tail-feathers blackish, edged 

 externally with whitish, internally with purer white ; three 

 lateral tail-feathers with a quadrate terminal white patch on inner 

 web. Bill black ; legs pale yellowish. Total length 4-7 inches, 

 wing 2-1, tail 2-05, tarsus O-OS. (Baird.) 



Hah. Porto Eico. 



22. Dendrceca delicata. 



Dendrceca adelaidse {tiec Baird), Sdater, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 269. 

 Dendrceca adelaidse delicata, liidgw. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. v. p. 525 

 (1883). 



Adult. General colour above light slaty blue, the long silky 

 feathers on the sides of the rump tipped with white ; lesser wing- 

 coverts like the back ; median and greater coverts black, externally 

 edged with slaty blue, broadly tipped with white, forming a double 

 wing-bar, less distinct on the greater coverts, where only the outer 

 ones have white tips ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts black, obso- 

 letely fringed with ashy ; quills black, externally edged with slaty 

 blue, more ashy on the secondaries ; tail-feathers blackish, edged 

 with ashy grey, the two outer ones with a large white spot near 

 the end of the inner web, rather less on the penultimate one ; centre 

 of forehead black, extending backwards on the sides of the crown, 

 the rest of the head slaty blue ; a broad band of bright golden 

 yellow reaching from the nostril to above the hinder part of the 



