338 MNIOTILTIDiE. 



Syl\-ia tfeniata, Duhus, Bull. Acad. Bruxelles, xiv, p. 104 (1847) ; 



id. Rev. Zool. 1848, p. 24o. 

 Mniotilta tffiniata, Crraij, Gen. B. i. p. 196 (1848). 

 Sylvicola tteniata, Bp. Consp. i. p. 309 (1850). 



SVlvicola olivacea, Baird, in Stcnisb. Hep. JSxped. Great Slave Lake, 

 "p. .328 (18-52) ; Cass. III. B. Calif, p. 283, pi. 48 (1855). 

 Rhimamphus olivaceus, Sclatcr, P. Z. S. 1856, p. 291. 

 Dendroica olivacea, Baird, B. N. Amer. p. 305 (1858) ; Sclater, 



P. Z. S. 1858, pp. 295, 298 ; Baird, Revieio Amer. B. p. 205 (1865) ; 



Sumichr. Mem. Bust. Soc. N. If. i. p. 546 (1869) ; Baird, Breiuer, 



^- Ridgw. Hist. N. Amer. B. i. p. 258, pi. 14. fig. 4 (1874) ; Hensh. 



Amer. Sportsm. 1875, p. -328. 

 DendrcBca olivacea, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 363 ; id. Cat. Amer. B. 



p. 31 (1862) ; Salvin, Ibis, 1866, p. 191 ; Sundev. (Efv. K. Vet.- 



Akad. Fork. Stockh. 1869, p. 610 ; Coices, Key N. Ajner. B. p. 99 



(1872); Scl. ^- Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 9 (1873). 

 Mniotilta olivacea. Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 240, no. 3479 (1869). 

 Peucedramus olivaceus, Coues, in Hensh. Zool. E.ipl. W. IQOth Merid. 



p. 201 (1876) ; Hensh. t. c. p. 202 ; id. List B. Ariz. 1875, 



p. 155 ; Coues, B. Color. Vail. p. 233 (1878) ; Ridyiv. Bull. U.S. 



Nat. Mus. no. 21, p. 17 (1881) ; Coues, Key N. Amer. B. 2nd ed. 



p. 296 (1884)._ 

 Peucedromus olivaceus, Salvin <Sf Godm. Biol. Centr.-Afuer., Aves, i. 



p. 142 (1881). 



Adult male. General colour above dark ash)-, with a slight olive 

 shade, especially on the rump ; the mantle dusky and washed with 

 dingy olive-green ; lesser wing-coverts black, edged with ashj- ; 

 median and greater coverts black, narrowly edged with olive-yellow 

 and tipped broadly with white, forming a double wing-bar ; bastard- 

 wing and primary-coverts uniform black ; quills black, edged with 

 olive-ycUow, whitish at the base and at the ends of the feathers, 

 the inner primaries white at base, forming a small alar speculum ; 

 upper tail-coverts duU ashy ; tail-feathers black, edged with olive- 

 yellow or pale ashy, the outer feather for the most part white, 

 excepting an oblique mark at the base of the inner web and a dark 

 ending to the outer web, extending a little across the tip of the 

 inner one ; the white on the penultimate feather more restricted, and 

 consisting of a white shaft and a large ovate patch on the inner web, 

 widening out towards the end of the inner web ; head and hind 

 neck deep saifron-ycllow, rather more orange on the crown ; the 

 middle of the hind neck washed with duU olive-green ; lores, feathers 

 below the eye, and ear-coveiis black ; sides of neck, cheeks, throat, 

 and fore neck deep saffron-yellow ; centre of breast and abdomen 

 white, as well as the under tail-coverts ; thighs ashy externally, 

 white internally ; sides of the body and flanks diUl ashy, slightly 

 tinged with olive ; axillarics and under wing-coverts white, with 

 blackish bases ; quills black, white along the edge of the inner web. 

 Total length 5-3 inches, culmen 0"55, wing 2-S5, tail 2-1, tarsus 0-75. 



Adult female. Differs from the male in being rather lighter ashy ; 

 head olive-yellow, greener on the nape and hind neck ; a broad line 

 over the eye and sides of neck bright yellow : lores, feathers below 

 the eye, and ear-coverts blackish, rather broadly streaked with pale 

 olive-yellow shaft-lines ; cheeks and throat and fore neck bright 



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