7. I)ENDI!(ECA. 313 



Rhimamplius coronatus, Cnb. 3Itts. Hein. i. p. 19 (1850); Gundl. 

 J.f. O. 1855, p. 473; Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 1291. 



Dendrceca coronata, Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 363; id. Cat. Amer. B. 

 p. 30 (1862) ; Laivr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii. p. 6 (1863) ; Blakisf. 

 Ibis, 1863, p. 62 ; 8cL ^ Salv. P. Z. 8. 1864, p. 347 ; Dresser, His, 

 1865, p. 478; Brown, Ibis, 1868, p. 420; Duges, La Natur. i. 

 p. 140 (1868) ; Laivr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 94 (1868) : Sel. ^^ 

 Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 836; Cooper, B. Calif, p. 89 (1870) ;' Mayn. 

 B. Florida, p. 61 (1873) ; Scl. ^ Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 9 

 (1873) ; Coues, B. N.-West, p. 57 (1874); Later. Bull. U.S. Nat. 

 Mas. no. 4, p. 15 (1876) ; Coues, B. Color. Vail. p. 278 (1878) ; 

 Gundl. Orn. Cuba, p. 65 (1876) ; Coues, Bidl. U.S. Geol. Surv. iv. 

 p. 565 (1878) ; Merrill, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mas. i. p. 123 (1878) ; 

 Salv. ^- Godm. Biol. Cmtr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 127 (1880) ; Cory, 

 B. Bahamas, p. 59 (1880) ; Ridgw. Btdl. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 21, 

 p. 17 (1881) ; A. (^- E. Newt. Ilandb. Jamaica, p. 106 (1881) ; 

 llartl. J.f. O. 1883, p. 267 ; Nelson, Cruise R. S. '■Corivin^ p. 64 

 (1883) ; Boucard, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 440 ; Cory, B. S. Domingo, p. 30 

 (1884) ; Coues, Key N. Amer. B. 2ncl ed. p.' 301 (1884). 



Adult male in summer plumage. General colour above slaty grey, 

 with longitudinal black centres to the feathers, less pronounced on 

 the hind neck, which is consequently more imiform ; rump clear 

 bright yellow ; some of the mantle-feathers margined with hoary 

 white ; lesser wing-coverts slaty grey, with black bases : median 

 and greater series black, edged with slaty grey and tipped with 

 white, forming a double wing-bar ; bastard-wing black, fringed with 

 white ; primary-coverts and quills blackish, edged with ashy grey, 

 browner on the secondaries ; upper tail-coverts black, margined 

 with slaty grey ; tail-feathers black, edged with slaty grey, the three 

 outer feathers with a large white patch near the end of the inner 

 web, the extreme tip, however, being obliquely black, the white 

 patch increasing in extent on the penultimate and outermost 

 feathers, which are also fringed externally with white : head slaty 

 grey like the back and streaked with black, with a large patch of 

 golden yellow in the centre of the crown ; lores, feathers below the 

 eye, and ear-coverts black, ■ftith a narrow white line above the lores 

 and just behind the upper part of the eye ; upper and under margin 

 of eyelid white ; cheeks and throat white ; fore neck and sides of 

 breast black, the feathers of the latter margined with white ; on 

 the sides of the breast a large patch of golden yellow ; centre of 

 breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts white ; flanks white, 

 streaked with black ; thighs ashy white ; axillaries white, with 

 ashy bases ; under wing-coverts white, mottled with black bases to 

 the feathers along the edge of the wing ; quills dusky below, ashy 

 white along the edge of the inner web. Total length 5-3 inches, 

 culmen 0-o.5, wing 2-95, tail 2-3, tarsus 0-7. 



The amount of black on the breast varies greatly in a series of 

 male specimens, and it is often obscured by the greyish-white edgings 

 to the feathers. A specimen killed on the 3rd of May by Mr. H. K. 

 Coale shows this strongly, although it might be supposed to be in 

 full breeding-plumage by that date. It is probable, therefore, that 

 those birds which are entirely black on the fore neck are verj- old, 



