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eye ; ear-coverts slaty blue, with a black spot in front of and behind 

 the eye ; cheeks and under surface of body bright yellow, paler on 

 the lower abdomen ; under tail-coverts white ; thighs bluish grey ; 

 axillaries and under wing-coverts white ; quills dusky below, white 

 on the inner webs. Total length 4*5 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2-15, 

 tail 2, tarsus 0'7. 



This species has been separated by Mr. Eidgway from D. adelaidce 

 of Porto Rico, which I have not seen. Mr. Eidgway states that the 

 Santa Lucia bird differs " in having very much more intense yellow 

 superciliaries and lower parts, the former being much broader (occu- 

 pying the whole of the forehead except a central line), in the more 

 decided plumbeous of the upper parts, the more distinct black mark 

 on the sides and fore part of the crown, in the large size and other 

 particulars.'' 



Hab. Island of Santa Lucia. 



a. Ad. sk. Santa Lucia (Semper). Sclater Collection. 



23. Dendrceca discolor. 



Sylvia discolor, Vieill. Ois. Amer. Sept. ii. p. 37, pi. 98 (1807); 

 Atidub. B. Amer. pi. 14 ; id. Orn. Biogr. i. p. 76 (1831). 



Sylvia minuta, Wils. Amer. Orn. iii. p. 87, pi. 25. fig. 4 (1811). 



Phyllopueuste minuta, Boie, Isis, 1828, p. 321. 



Sylvicola discolor, Jard. ed. Wils. Amer. Orn. p. 375 (1832) ; Bp. 

 Comp. List B. Eur. ^- N. Amer. p. 23 (1838) ; Aiidiih. Syn. p. 62 

 (1839) ; id. B. Amer. ii. p. 68, pi. 97 (1841) ; Gosse, B. Jamaica, 

 p. 159 (1847) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 308 (1850) ; Bryant, Proc. Bost. 

 Soc. N. H. vii. p. 110 (1859), x. p. 251 (1866), xi. p. 91 (1867). 



Sylvicola miuiita, Denny, P. Z. S. 1847, p. 38. 



Mniolilta discolor, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 196 (1848) ; id. Hand-l. B.'i. 

 p. 241, no. 3486 (1869). 



Ehimamplius discolor, Gundl. J. f. 0. 1855, p. 474. 



Uendroica discolor, Baird, B. N. Amer. p. 290 (1858) ; March, Proc. 

 Philad. Acad. 1863, p. 293 ; Baird. Rev. Amer. B. p. 213 (1865) ; 

 Luior. Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii. p. 284 (1866) ; Baird, Brewer, ^ 

 Rid(jw. Hist. N. Amer. B. i. p. 276, pi. 14. fig. 9 (1874). 



Dendrceca discolor, A. S)- E. Newton, Ibis, 1859, p. 144; Scl. P. Z. S. 

 1861, p. 71 ; id. Cat. Amer. B. p. 33 (1862) ; Stmd. OEfv. K. Vet.- 

 Akad. Fork. Stockh. 1869, p. 615 ; Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool, 

 Cambr. ii. p. 268 (1871), iii. p. 125 (1872) ; Coues, Key N. Amer. 

 B. p. 103 (1872) ; Scl. Sf Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 9 (1873) ; 

 Mayn. B. Florida, p. 58 (1873) ; Coues, B. N.- West, p. 63 (1874) ; 

 Gundl. Orn. Cuba, p. 67 (1876) ; Coues, B. Color. Vail. p. 247 

 (1878) ; Cory, B. Bahamas, p. 64 (1880) ; Ridgiv. Bidl. U.S. Nat. 

 Mus. no. 21, p. 18 (1881) ; Salv. Sf Godm. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, 

 i. p. 142 (1881) ; A. ^- E. Newt. Handb. Jamaica, p. 106 (1881) ; 

 Coues, Key N. Amer. B. 2nd ed. p. 305 (1884); Cory, B. S. 

 Domingo, p. 31 (1884). 



Adult male. General colour above duU olive-yellow, a little 

 brighter on the lower back and rump ; the mantle chestnut, all the 

 feathers edged with olive-yellow, producing a mottled appearance ; 

 lesser wing-coverts like the back ; median and greater coverts dusky, 

 edged with olive-yellow and .tipped with brighter yellow, forming a 

 double wing-bar ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts dark brown, 



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