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forming an inconspicuous ej'ebrow ; sides of face and ear-coverts 

 white, streaked with black, more thickly on the latter ; cheeks and 

 under surface of body white, spotted with triangular marks of 

 black, larger and much more distinct on the breast ; sides of the 

 body longitudinally spotted with black ; lower flanks washed with 

 brown ; abdomen white ; thighs brown ; under tail-coverts pale 

 fawn-brown, with dusky centres to tho feathers ; under wing- 

 covcrts and axillaries white, mottled with dusky bases near the edge 

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

 the inner web : " bill black above, suture and lower mandible 

 grey; feet purplish horn, with pale soles; irides hazel" {Gosse). 

 Total length 4-S inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2-6, tail 2-1, tarsus 0"7. 



Adidt fnnale. Similar to the male, but rather duller in colour, 

 and browner on the scapulars, lower back, and tail ; the lower sur- 

 face of the body less thickly spotted with black. Total length 4*7 

 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2-5, tail 2, tarsus 0-75. (J/hs. E. Newton.) 



Young female. Different from the male. General colour above 

 uniform dark olive, browner on the lower back, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts ; lesser wing-coverts like the back, the median and 

 greater series blackish, externally edged with olive and tipped with 

 yellowish white, forming an ill-defined double wing-bar ; bastard- 

 wing dark brown, with olive-j'ellow margins ; primary-coverts dark 

 brown, washed with olive ; quills dark brown, edged with olive, 

 browner on the secondaries, the primaries pale yellow near the base 

 of the outer web, forming a small speculum ; tail-feathers dark 

 brown, edged with olive-brown, and fringed with dull white near 

 the end of the inner web ; head a little more greenish olive than the 

 back, and streaked with olive-yellow on the fore part of the crown ; 

 lores ashy ; a narrow superciliary line and the eyelid yellowish 

 white ; ear-coverts greenish olive, varied with yellowish streaks ; 

 cheeks and under surface of body pale olive-yellow, mottled with 

 dusky centres to the feathers of the throat and breast ; centre of 

 abdomen pale yellowish ; lower flanks washed with pale reddish 

 brown ; thighs olive ; under tail-coverts pale fawn-brown ; under 

 wing-coverts white, washed with pale olive-yellow ; axillaries pale 

 olive-yeUow ; quills dusky below, ashy whitish along the edge of 

 the inner web. Total length 4'5 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2-35, 

 tail 2, tarsus 0-7. {Mus. iSalvin and Godman.) 



Hah. Jamaica. 



a. (S ad. sk. Jamaica. P. H. Gosse, Esq. [C.j. 



(TA7)e of species.) 



b. (S ad. ; c. 5 ad. sk. Jamaica {Osbiirn). Sclater Collection. 



d. S ad. sk. Jamaica. Capt. Hamilton [P.]. 



e. S ad. sk. Jamaica, May 26. Edward Newton, Esq. [P.]. 

 /. $ ad. sk. Jamaica, Oct. 1. Edward Newton, Esq. [P.]. 



36. Dendroeca plumbea. 

 Dendrceca plumbea, Laicr. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. i. p. 47 (1879) ; 

 id. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. i. p. 55 (1878), p. 454 (1879), p. 486 

 (1879). 



Adult male. General colour above leaden grey, the long feathers of 



