2 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 8l 



Range. — Confined to Gonave Island, Haiti. 



Remarks. — The present form shows approach to Dendroica petechia 

 eoa of Jamaica in size and in brighter coloration, but is less golden 

 yellow, with the dark coloration of the anterior part of the crown 

 rufescent rather than orange brown. Its differences from alhicollis, 

 easily apparent in series, are more plainly evident in females than in 

 males. 



Following are measurements of Dendroica p. albicoUis for com- 

 parison : 



Eighteen males, wing 59.3-64.5 (62.5), tail 47.3-53.0 (50.5), culmen 

 from base 11.0-13.3 (12.6), tarsus 19.9-22.0 (21.0) mm. 



Five females, wing 57.8-63.0 (60.3), tail 47.8-50.2 (49.2), culmen 

 from base 11. 2-13. 2 (12.4), tarsus 19.8-21.0 (20.6) mm. 



Family THRAUPIDAE 

 CALYPTOPHILUS TERTIUS, subsp. nov. 



Characters. — Similar to CalyptopJiiliis fnigivorus fnigivorus Cory ' 

 but decidedly larger, with heavier bill ; much darker in color ; feathers 

 encircling eyelids dark, instead of yellow ; wings and tail rufescent. 



Description. — American Museum of Natural History No. 166,421, 

 male, from higher slopes of MorneLaHotte, Haiti, taken June22, 1917, 

 by R. H. Beck. Crown feathers centrally chaetura black, margined 

 with grayish olive ; sides of head chaetura drab ; a spot of primuline 

 yellow on lores, separated from eye by an area of dull black ; hindneck, 

 back and scapulars between deep and dark olive, shading back across 

 rump to the bister of the upper tail-coverts ; rectrices somewhat darker 

 and more rufescent than warm sepia ; remiges dusky brown, sec- 

 ondaries and inner primaries with external webs 1)ister, outer pri- 

 maries with external webs olive brown, and wing-coverts clove brown ; 

 edge of wing, with a wash of reed yellow ; under wing-coverts mixed 

 whitish and deep mouse gray ; throat and center of breast white (more 

 or less soiled ) ; abdomen smoke gray ; sides washed with deep mouse 

 gray ; flanks brownish olive ; under tail-coverts bister. " Iris brown, 

 bill black, horn below " (from collector's label) ; tarsi and feet bister 

 (from dried skin). 



Measurements (in millimeters). — Five males, wing 92.5-104.0 

 (98.9), tail 96.5-108.0 (101.2), culmen from base 23.7-27.4 (24.9), 

 tarsus 32.5-35.0 (33.4). 



^ Phoenicophilus fnigivorus Cory, Quart. Journ. Boston Zool. Soc, October, 

 1883, p. 45. (" Santo Domingo " = Rivas, D. R.) 



