﻿BIRDS FROM WEST [NDIES 



Family MNK )TILTID^E 



289 



39. SETOPHAGA RUTICILLA (Linnseus) 

 Three males and lour females, Barbuda, Aug. 10-Nov. 23; three 

 males and two females, Antigua. ( )ct. 22-Dec. 14. 



40. SEIURUS NOVEBORACENSIS (Gmelin) 



Three males and three females, Barbuda, Aug. 25-Nov. 19; six 

 males and one female, Antigua, Oct. 15-Dec. 12. 



41. SEIURUS MOTACILLA (Vieillot) 

 ( )r.e male, Antigua, Sept. 19. 



42. SEIURUS AUROCAPILLUS (Linnaeus) 

 Four males and one female, Antigua, Oct. 9 and 23, and Nov. 27. 



43. DENDROICA DISCOLOR (Vieillot) 



One male and one female, Barbuda, Nov. 2 and 23 ; one male and 

 one female, Antigua, Oct. 5-13. 



44. DENDROICA SUBITA new species 



Type No. 191,301, U. S. N. M., J ad., Barbuda, W. I., Sept. 19, 

 1903. Collected by H. G. Selwyn Branch. 



Description. — Top of head, sides of neck, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts mouse gray ; interscapular region hair brown ; wings black, 

 the feathers narrowly edged with gray, the tips to the greater coverts 

 forming an obsolete dusky wing bar; tail black, the three outer 

 feathers narrowly edged with white and with a large oblique white 

 spot occupying the first and second feather but not reaching the tip, 

 this spot much reduced on the third; a broad yellow superciliary 

 stripe, scarcely extending beyond eye ; a yellow suborbital spot, this 

 spot separated from the superciliary by a loral streak and from the 

 throat by a rictai streak of dusky; forehead slightly tinged with 

 yellow ; malar region, chin, throat, chest, and breast lemon yellow ; 

 belly and under tail-coverts white; thighs dusky; lining of wing 

 white, slightly tinged with yellow on the carpus. Measurement of 

 type: wing, 50.5; tail, 45.5; culmen, 10.5; tarsus, 18.5; middle 

 toe, 10. 



Female similar to the male. 



Remarks. — This very distinct species needs no comparison with 

 any known form, but belongs to the same section as Dcndroica ade- 



