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Dexdrceca coroxata (Linn,). 



I noticed several bands of these birds feeding in the recent 

 clearings, and shot one or two specimens. I have also seen 

 many of them ou the Grand Cayman Island. This species 

 is a winter visitor from North America. 



Dendr(eca DOMINICA (Linn.). 



I shot a male example of this Yellow-throated Warbler. 

 It was the only example that I saw. It is a winter resident 

 or straggler. 



Dendrceca vitellina Cory. 



Dendroica vitellina Cory, Auk, iii. 1886, pp. 497, 501. 



I obtained a series of thirteen of these little Warblers, 

 which are peculiar to these islands and the Grand Cayman. 

 It consists of adult males and females, and also of individuals 

 in various stages of immature plumage. The bird is very 

 abundant ou both the Swan Islands and is extremely 

 tame. 



It differs from D. discolor in being larger and in lacking 

 the chestnut spots on the back. The broad black streaks 

 along the sides of the breast and flanks which are so 

 conspicuous in D. discolor are either entirely absent or are 

 only faintly indicated by dusky streaks. It is incorrect, as 

 Mr, Ridgway states {' Birds of North and Middle America,^ 

 part ii. p. 610), to say that they are always absent, for in 

 some specimens which I have obtained, both on these islands 

 and the Grand Cayman, the faint dusky lines are easily 

 observed. 



I have compared examples from the Swan Islands with my 

 birds obtained on the Grand Cayman and also with those 

 which Mr. Nicoll obtained on the same island, and they 

 appear to me to be identical. They also differ from specimens 

 which I obtained on the Little Cayman (D. craivfordi Nicoll) 

 in the points which Mr, Nicoll has already indicated. 



D. vitellina would seem to be a well-marked and very 

 constant species. According to Mr. Ridgway ('Birds of 

 North and Middle America,' vol. ii. p. 610) the under parts 



