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and the wing-coverts distinctlj- pei-vaded with the latter colour ; 

 throat, breast, and sides of body pale brown, with no indication of 

 the patch of yellow on the sides of the breast ; the latter as well as 

 the flanks mottled with blackish centres to the feathers. 



Very young. No yellow anywhere ; everywhere streaked — above 

 with blackish and brownish ash, below with dusky and whitish; wings 

 and tail much as in the autumnal plumage of the adull. (Cones.) 



" The full breeding-dress of this species is worn but for a short 

 time. The spring moult is usually not completed until some time 

 in May, as early May and all April specimens show more or less 

 evident traces of the dull-browu winter plumage mixed with the 

 clear slate-colour. September and October specimens are much the 

 same. The early-streaked condition is very brief, the distinctive 

 marking of the species soon appearing. In comparing this species 

 with D. coronata, its eastern representative, the very marked cha- 

 racter of the restricted throat in contrast with the more extensively 

 white throat of D. coronata has drawn attention from other equally 

 good characters. In D. coronata in full plumage the whole sides of 

 the head are pure black, bounded above by a white superciliary 

 line ; whereas this part is a little darker than the back in D. audu- 

 boni, and there is no white line. The breast of D. coronata does 

 not appear to be ever continuously black, nor do the white bars on 

 the wings fuse completely into a large white patch. Younger and 

 autumnal or winter specimens are more similar ; but the distinctive 

 yeUow throat of auduhoni shows, at least in traces, at a very early 

 age, and is always distinctive. In the very earliest stage the two 

 species are indistinguishable." (Ooiws, B. Color. Vail. I. c.) 



Hah. From the easternmost bases and outlying foot-hills of the 

 Rocky Mountains to the Pacific, United States and British Columbia ; 

 probably also to Alaska ; accidental in Massachusetts. Winters in 

 Central America from Mexico to Guatemala (S. Sf G.). 



J. K. Lord, Esq. [C.]. 

 J. K. Lord, Esq. [P.]. 

 Lord Walsingham 



E. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Purchased. 

 Sclater Collection. 

 U.S. Nat. Museum 



[P.]. 

 Purchased. 

 Gould Collection. 

 Sclater Collection. 

 A.Boucard, Esq. [P.] 

 Gould Collection. 



27. Dendrceca palmarum. 



Le BimbeM ou la Faiisse Linote, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. v. p. 330 (1778). 

 Palm Warbler, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 2, p. 498 (1783). 



