8. PERISSOGLOSSA. 335 



1. Perissoglossa tigrina. 



Spotted Yellow Flycatcher, Edw. Glean, vi. p. 101, pi. 257. fio^. 12 



(1760). 

 Le Figuier brun de Canada, Briss. Orn. iii. p. olo, pi. 27. fio-. 4 



(1760)._ 

 Spotted Yellow Warbler, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 2, p. 482 (178-'>). 

 Spotted "Warbler, Penn. Arct. Zool. ii. p. 407 (1785). 

 Motacilla tigrina, Gm. Si/sf. Xat. i. p. i)8o (1788). 

 Sylvia tigrina, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 537 (1790) ; Vieill. Ois. Amer. 



Sept. ii. p. 34, pi. 94 (1807). 

 Sylvia uiaritima, Wils. Amer. Orn. vi. p. 99, pi. 54. fig. 3 (1812); 



Bp. Amer. Orn. i. p. 32, pi. 3. fig. 3 (1825); Audub. B. Amer. 



pl. 414 ; id. Orn. Biogr. v. p. 156 (1839) ; DOrb. in Ramon de la 



Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois. p. 63, pl. 10 (1838). 

 Sylvicola maritima, Jard. ed. Wils. Amer. Orn. ii. p. 301, iii. p. 291 



(1832); Bp. Comp. List B. JEiir. ^- N. Amer. p. 22 (18-38); 



Audub. Syn. p. 56 (1832) ; id. B. Amer. ii. p. 44, pl. 85 (1841 ) ; 



Bp. Consp. i. p. 307 (1850) ; Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. jV. S. vii. 



p. 110 (1859). 

 Certhiola maritima, Gosse, B. Jamaica, p. 87, pl. 17 (1847). 

 Mniotilta maritima. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 196 (1848). 

 Mniotilta tigrina. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 196 (1848) ; id. Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 239, no. 3465 (1809). 

 Ebimamphus maritimus, Giindl. J. f. O. 1855, p. 474, 1861, p. 409. 

 Sylvicola tigrina, Bp. Consp. i. p. 308 (1850). 

 Dendroica tigrina, Baird, B. N. Amer. p. 286 (1858) ; March, Proc. 



Philad. Acad. 1863, p. 293 ; Lawr.Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii. p. 284 (1866). 

 Dendrceca tigi-ina, A. df- E. Keicton, Ibis, 1859, p. 144. 

 Dendroeca tigrina, Scl. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 71 ; id. Cat. Amer. B. p. 33 



(1862); Sunder. CEfv. K. Vet.-Akad. Forh. Stockh. 1869, p. 616; 



Coties, Key N. Amer. B. p. 103 (1872) ; Mayn. B. Florida, p. 55 



(1873); Coues, B. Color. Vail. p. 245 (1878) ; Cory, B. Bahamas, 



p. 63 (1880) ; id. B. S. Domingo, p. 25 (1884) ; Coues, Key N. Amer. 



B. 2nd ed. p. 305 (1884). 



P. Z. S. 1883, p. 440. 

 Sylvicola tigi-ina, Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. iV. H. 1867, p. 91. 



Adult mule in summer plumage. General colour above olive-yellow, 

 thickly mottled with black ; the feathers of the entire mantle and 

 back, as well as the hind neck, black, edged with olive-yellow ; rump 

 bright yellow, forming a broad band ; upper tail-coverts block, edged 

 with olive-yellow ; lesser wing-coverts olive, with black centres to 

 the feathers ; median wing-coverts white, slightly washed with 

 yellow ; greater coverts black, externally edged with olive-yellow, 

 the outer ones white, forming m ith the median coverts a large wing- 

 patch ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills black, edged with 

 dull olive, brighter and more distinct on the quills ; tail-feathers 

 black, edged with olive-yellow and fringed with white near the end 

 of the inner web, increasing and forming a large white patch on all 

 but the centre feathers, till on the outer feather it occupies half of 

 the tail, in each case being subtcrminal; crown of head black 



