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Mangrove Warbler 



DENDROICA BRYANTI CASTANEICEPS Ridgw. Plate I 



Distinguishing Characters.— Adult d" with head all around and throat red- 

 dish chestnut; both sexes with yellow on inner webs of two or more tail- 

 feathers. Length (skin), 4.65; wing, 2.40; tail, 1.80; bill, .45. 



Adult 3, Spring.— Ht&d all around and throat reddish chestnut; back 

 yellow olive-green, the rump brighter ; inner webs of all but central tail-feathers 

 largely yellow; wings black margined with yellow; underparts, except throat, 

 rich yellow faintly streaked with reddish brown. 



Adult S, Fall. — Not seen. 



Young c?. — Not seen. 



Adult $, Spring. — Above olive-green, much darker and greener than in 

 c?; tail black the two outer feathers with large yellow patches on the inner 

 web near the tip ; wings black margined with greenish yellow ; below uniform 

 pale, dull yellow. 



Adult $, Fall. — Not distinguishable from adult $ in Spring. 



Young $. — Above grayish olive-green, rump brighter ; tail blackish, exter- 

 nally greenish, webs of all but central feathers narrowly margined with yellow; 

 wings and their coverts blackish, quills margined, coverts tipped with dull 

 greenish; below whitish more or less washed or obscurely streaked with 

 yellow, the under tail-coverts pale yellow. 



Nestling. — Not seen. 



General Distribution. — A non-migratory species resident in 

 western Mexico and Lower California north to Magdalena Bay. 



The Bird and its Haunts. — The observations of Belding^, Bryant-, 

 and Frazar^ show that in Lower Cahfornia this Pacific Coast form 

 is found only in the red mangroves {Rhizophora mangle) and it is, 

 consequently, of local distribution. 



Belding records it from La Paz, Pichalinque Bay and Espiritu 

 Island where he considered it resident. At La Paz he found it to be 

 common, but in IMarch, 1889, Frazar could secure only eight specimens 

 there. Bryant observed it in Magdalena Bay and on Santa Mar- 

 garita Island. 



Biographical References 



(i) L. Belding, Catalogue of a Collection of Birds made at Various Points 

 along the Western Coast of Lower California, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus.. V, 

 1883, 536. (2) W. Bryant, A Catalogue of the Birds of Lower California, 

 Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci.. 2nd Ser. II, 1889, 309. (3) Wm. Brewster, Birds of 

 the Cape Region of Lower California, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zoology, XLI, 1902, 

 181. 



Magnolia Warbler 



DENDROICA MACULOSA (Gmel.) Plate XI 

 Distinguishing Characters. — Adults of both sexes have the crown and 

 nape gray, a white stripe behind the eye. the rump yellow, the white patches 



