DEKDROICA. 515 



g'. Back without black streaks. 



li}. Above ash-gra}', including sides of head, the 

 latter without distinct markings : under tail- 

 coverts and belly white. 



Adult male: Forehead and crown olive- 

 green ; rest of upper parts, including 

 sides of head and neck, plain ash-gray, 

 the wings with two dull graj-ish white 

 » bands; throat and chest pale yellow, this 



bordered laterally by an interrupted se- 

 ries of black streaks, most distinct on 

 sides of breast; rest of lower parts 

 white, shading into grayish on sides; 

 length (skin) about 4.50, wing 2.30, tail 

 2.20, tarsus .66. Hub. Cuba. 



D. pityophila (Guxdl.). 

 Cuban Pine Warbler.' 



A*. Above olive-green or brownish (always olive- 

 green on rump and upper tail-coverts, at 

 least), the sides of head with distinct yellow 

 or whitish markings; under tail-coverts or 

 belly (or both) yellow. 

 i} Above plain olive-green, the back spotted 

 chestnut in adult male; inner web of 

 outer tail-feather with moi'c than termi- 

 nal third white, this with anterior out- 

 line very oblique. 

 Adult male : Superciliary stripe, spot 

 beneath eyes, and entire lower parts 

 rich gamboge-yellow ; streak across 

 lores, a broader one across cheeks, 

 from corner of mouth, and broad 

 streaks along sides, deep black. 

 Adttlt female : Essentially like male, 

 but much duller, the chestnut on 

 back obsolete or indistinct, yellow 

 paler, and black markings less dis- 

 tinct (sometimes replaced by dull 

 grayish ones). Yot(n(j in frst au- 

 tumn : Similar to adult female, but 

 tinged with ashy about head, where 

 the j'ellow markings sometimes in- 

 cline to whitish. Young: Above 



' Si/hieola pili/ophila GvsDL., Ann. N. Y. Lye. Oct. 1S55, 160. Dendruica pityophila Bairp, Review, i. 

 liti, 208. 



