﻿29O SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS [VOL. 47 



laidcc and Dendroica delicata from which it differs in the entirely 



different color of the upper parts, the lack of the black edging to the 

 superciliary stripe, the obsolete or in some specimens absent wing- 

 bars, and the white spot on the outer tail-feather not reaching the tip. 



There are four males, two females, and one immature in the collec- 

 tion, all from Barbuda, taken between Aug. 25 and Nov. 20. The 

 four males average: wing, 51.7 ; tail, 45.6; culmen, 10.9: tarsus. 

 18.2; middle toe, 10.4. The two females average: wing, 54.5; tail, 

 45.2; culmen, 10.7; tarsus, 18; middle toe, 10.2. 



The immature specimen is similar to the adult except that it is just 

 acquiring the yellow of the breast and throat. The yellow starting 

 on the lower throat branches out on the breast into two broad 

 bands ; the chin and upper throat are dusky with only a few scattering 

 yellow feathers ; the yellow superciliary stripe is indicated only by a 

 spot above the eye ; and the suborbital spot is absent. 



45. DENDROICA PETECHIA BARTHOLEMICA Sundevall 



[Dendroica petechia] a. bartholemica Sundevall, Ofv. k. Vet.-Akad. 

 Forh. Stockh., 1869, 607 (St. Bartholomew). 



Three males and two females, Barbuda ; five males and two 

 females, Antigua. 



This series when compared with a series from Porto Rico and 

 Vieques shows the latter to belong to a different form. The Barbuda 

 and Antigua birds differ in having the backs darker without dusky 

 streaks ; the chestnut on the head in fully adult birds darker and more 

 pronounced ; and in being less heavily streaked below. Three males 

 from Barbuda average: wing, 64; tail, 48.8; culmen, 11.8. Four 

 males from Antigua: wing, 61.6; tail, 48; culmen, 11.5. 



StmdevalTs name [Dendroica petechia] b. cruciana (Ofv. k. Vet.- 

 Akad. Forh. Stockh., 1869, 608), founded on the St. Croix bird, is 

 probably applicable to the bird from Porto Rico and the Virgin 

 Island gnat]) which should be known as Dendroica petechia cruciana 

 Sundevall. 



46. MNIOTILTA VARIA (Linnaeus) 



( )ne male and one female, Barbuda, Nov. 17 and 23; two males 

 and three females, Antigua, Oct. 5-Dec. 15. 



Family COEREBID/E 



47. CCEREBA DOMINICANA (Taylor) 



Certhiola dominicana Taylor, Ibis, Apr., 1864, 167 (Dominica). 

 Five males, Barbuda; eight males and six females, Antigua. 



