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upper plumage is greenish-yellow ; the middle tail-feathers, the outer 

 •webs and ends of inner webs of the others are dark olive, blackish along 

 the shafts ; the margnis are pale yellow ; the inner webs are clear light 

 yellow, except at their ends ; wing-coverts black, all margined with i)ale 

 yellow ; tertials and outer webs of the other quills black, inner webs of 

 a lighter shade of black, having a grayish tinge ; all the quills are edged 

 with yellow, extending around the tips ; luider wing-coverts clear light 

 yellow ; sides of the head and of the throat light yellowish-rufous ; all 

 the under parts clear gamboge-yellow, marked with narrow stripes of 

 dark rufous, except on the lower part of the abdomen and the under 

 tail-coverts ; upper mandible dark brown, the under plumbeous ; tarsi 

 and toes light hazel. 



The female is rather darker above, and is without the rufous crown 

 and longitudinal stripes below; it has the under mandible whitish. 



This species most resembles var. rnficapiUa, Gm., from St. Thomas, 

 St. Croix, &c. Besides the striking featiue of its black wings, it differs 

 in being smaller, the wing measuring but two and a quarter inches^ 

 which in the other are two and a half; the tarsi and toes are more deli- ' 

 cately formed ; the tarsus measures \i in. against \% in. in rujicapilla; 

 .the rufous streaks below are narrower and darker; the color of the 

 crown is darker than in specimens from St. Thomas and Porto Rico, 

 and the yellow margins of the wing-coverts are not so wide. 



In my investigation of this species I find D. petechia of my Dominica 

 catalogue to be the same ; that island is the nearest south of Guade- 

 loupe, and not very distant. But at a further distance to the north 

 in Antigua and Barbuda, the species of Golden Warbler proves to be 

 var. ruficapilla, Gm., as might be expected ; agreeing with specimens 

 from St. Thomas and Porto Rico, considered to be the form entitled to 

 that appellation. 



In Martinique is found a very different form, viz., 2>. rufigula, Baird; 

 in Barbadoes still another, D. capitalis, Lawr. 



From St. Vincent and Grenada Mr. Ober sent no Golden Warblers. 



8. Dendrceca plumbea, Lawr. 



"Length, (?, 5J in.; alar extent, 7^; wing, 2J. 

 " Length, 9 , 5^ in. ; alar extent, 7 ; wing, 2|." 



9. Setophaga ruticilla (Linn.). 



" Length, i , 5^ in. ; alar extent, 7^ ; wing, 2^. 

 "Length, 9, 5^ in.; alar extent, 7^; wing, 2|." 



Fam. VIREONlDiE. 



10. Vireosylvia calidris -sar. dominicana, Lawr. 



"'Peow-peow.' 



"Length, ^, 6J in.; alar extent, 9f ; wing, 3^. 

 "Length, 9, 6^ in.; alar extent, 9f ; wing, 3^. 



"Known everywhere by its cry: frequenting chiefly trees bearing 

 small ?;eeds." 



