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6S. Dendroica palmarum palmarum ((.nulin). 



Four sprciuuMis: Nfw riH)\ itlfiice (Blue Hills); Grcal Ina^ua (Al- 

 fred Sound, Matlu'wtowii). 



The two Great Inagna specimens (February i6 and 24) both show 

 slight traces of prenuptial moult on the crown. 



69. Dendroica discolor (\ieillot). 



F'ive specimens: New Providence (Blue Hills); Great Inagua 

 (Mathewtown): Watlings Island. 



So far as I can discover only one of these in(li\iduals shtnvs any 

 trace of moult in jirogress; this is an immature female taken January 

 16, while a male dated January 4 seems to be in perfect plumage. 

 Upon comparison none of these specimens show the characters ascribed 

 to resident Bahaman birds by Mr. Ridgway (Birds of North and 

 Middle America, IT, 1902, 608, footnote). 



70. Seiurus aurocapillus (Linnaeus). 



One specimen: \cw Pro\idence (Blue Hills). 



71. Seiurus noveboracensis notabilis Ridgway. 



Four specimens: Xew Providence (Blue Hills); Great Inagua 

 (Mathewtown) ; Watlings Island. 



Although Mr. Ridgway places all but one of the Bahaman references 

 under true noveboracensis, the present examples prove upon com- 

 parison referable to notabilis. 



72. Geothlypis trichas trichas (Linnjrus). 



Seventeen specimens: Xew Providence (Blue Hills); Watlings 

 Island; Andros (Staniard Creek); Abaco (Sand Bank). 



Three immature males from Xew Providence (January 6, 9, and 

 12) show the beginning of the prenuptial moult, as also does a young 

 female from Andros (April 14). A male from Andros, which seems 

 to be adult, shows decided feather-renewal taking place on the throat 

 and sides of the head, while another from Abaco taken a little later 

 (April 26) has a few new feathers coming in on the chin. This is scarcely 

 to be deemed conclusive evidence of a regular prenuptial nunill in 

 the adult, howe\er. 



Considerable exception has been taken in some cpiarters to the 

 action of the American Ornithologists' Union Xomenclature Com- 

 mittee in refusing recognition to a subspecies " brachidactyla." A 

 study of the series of Yellow-throats in the Carnegie Museum has failed 

 to enable me to discriminate this supposed form, whose alleged char- 

 acters seem to me verv subtle indeed. The measurements of the 



