318 MNIOTILTID-ffil. 



Motacilla palmanim, Gm. S. N. i. p. 951 (1788) ; Less. TraiU, i. 



p. 418 (1831). 

 Sylvia paluianun, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 544 (1790) ; Vieill. Ois. 

 ' Amer. Sept. ii. p. 21, pi. 73 (1807); Bp. Amer. Orn. ii. p. 12, 



pi. 10. fig. 2 (1828); BOrb. in Ramon de la Sayra's Hist. Nat. 



Cuba, p. 57, pi. 8 (1838). 

 Sylvia petechia (wee L.), Wils. Amer. Orn. iv. p. 19, pi. 28. fig. 4 



(1812) ; Auduh. B. ^wer.pls. 163, 164; id. Orn. Biogr. ii. pp. 259, 



360 (1834). 

 Pliyllopneuste petechia, Boie, Lsis, 1828, p. 321. 

 Sylvicola petechia, Sxv. ^- Richards. Faun. Bur.- Amer., Birds, p. 215, 

 'pi. 41 (1831) ; Audub. Syn. p. 58 (1839) ; id. B. Amer. ii. p. 55, 



pi. 90 (1841). 

 Sylvicola palmarum, Jard. ed. Wils. Amer. Orn. i. p. 373 (1832) ; 



Richards. Rep. Brit. Assoc. 1836-37, p. 172 ; Salle, P. Z. S. 1857, 



p. 231 ; Bryant, Proc. Bast. Soc. N. H. vii. p. 110 (1859), xi. 



p. 91 (1867). 

 Sylvicola ruficapilla, Bp. Comp. List B. JEiir. ^ N Amer. p. 22 



(1838) ; id. Cmisp. i. p. 307 (1850). 

 Muiotilta petechia. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 196 (1848, pt.). 

 Miiiotilta palmarum. Gray, t. c. p. 196 ; id. Hand-l. B. i. p. 240, 



uo. 3477 (1869). 

 Dendroica palmarum, Baird, B. N. Amer. p. 288 (1858) ; id. Rev. 



Amer. B. p. 207 (1865); Laior. Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii. p. 284 



(1866); Gundl. J.f. O. 1872, p. 415; Baird, Bretoer, ^ Ridgw. 



Hist. N. Amer. B.'i. p. 273, pi. 14. tig. 8 (1874). 

 Dendroeca jialmarum, Scl. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 71 ; id. Cat. Amer. B. 



p. 33 (1862) ; Blakist. Ibis, 1863, p. 63 ; Sundev. (Efv. K. Vei.- 



Akad. Fork. Stockh. 1869, p. 616 ; Coties, Key N. Amer. B. p. 104 



(1872) ; Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Cambr. ii. p. 268 (1871) ; 



Maynard, B. Florida, p. 52 (1873) ; Scl. S/- Salv. Nomencl Av. 



Neotr. p. 9 (1883) ; Corns, B. N.-West, p. 67 (1874) ; id. B. Color. 



Vail. p. 250 (1878) ; Cory, B. Bahamas, p. 68 (1880) ; Ridgtu. 



Bidl. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 21, p. 18 (1881) ; A. if E. Newt. Handb. 



Jamaica, p. 106 (1881) ; Coues, Key N Amer. B. 2nd ed. p. 307 



(1884). 

 DendrcEca palmarum hypochryssea, Ridqw. Bidl. Nidt. Orn. Club, i. 



p. 84 (1876); id. Bidl. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 21, p. 18 (1881); 



Boucard, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 441 ; Coues, Key N. Amer. B. 2nd ed. 



p. 307 (1884) ; Conj, B. S. Dotningo, p. 32 (1884). 

 Dendroeca palmarum, /3. hypochiyssea, Coues, B. Color. Vail. p. 250 



(1878). 



Adult male. General colour above dull yellowish olive, streaked 

 with dusky down the centres of the feathers ; the rump and upper 

 tail-coverts olive-yellow ; lesser wing-coverts like the back ; median 

 and greater coverts dusky brown, edged with olive-brown, lighter 

 and more whity brown at the ends, forming an indistinct double 

 wing-bar; bastard-wing and piimary-coverts dusky brown, narrowly 

 fringed with olive ; quills dusky brown, margined with yellowish 

 olive, more broadly on the inner secondaries ; tail-feathers blackish 

 brown, edged with dull olive, the two outer ones with a white spot 

 at the end of the inner web ; crown of head rather bright chestmit, 

 with a little yeUow on the forehead ; a broad eyebrow of bright 

 yellow ; eyelid and feathers below the eye also yellow ; ear-coverts 

 olive-brown, with yellow shaft-lines ; lores and a streak behind the 

 eye dusky blackish ; cheeks and entire under surface of body golden 



