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Frsrvary 6, 1918 Vou. VI, pp. 81-82 
PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
NEW ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL CLUB 
TWO UNDESCRIBED NEWFOUNDLAND BIRDS, 
BY CHARLES FOSTER BATCHELDER. 
SomE collections of Newfoundland birds that Mr. Outram 
Bangs and I have recently examined, contain excellent series of 
the ovenbird and of the yellow warbler. In each of these species 
the material shows the Newfoundland bird to be so markedly 
different from its representatives in adjacent regions that it 
obviously should be recognized as a subspecies. 
They may be characterized as follows. 
Seiurus aurocapillus furvior subsp. nov. 
Type, from near Deer Pond, Newfoundland, @ adult, no. 6750, coll. of 
C. F. Batchelder, collected June 21, 1894, by A. E. Colburn. 
Characters. — Similar to Seiurus aurocapillus aurocapillus, but plumage 
in general deeper-colored or. darker. Tawny of crown browner, less yellow- 
ish — ‘ amber brown,’! instead of the ‘ochraceous orange’ of aurocapillus; 
black of sides of crown more extensive and slightly more intense; back, 
from nape to upper tail coverts, and including scapulars, duskier green; 
dark markings of breast and sides heavier and blacker; brown of flanks 
deeper. 
Measurements. — Average of eight adult males: wing, 77.2; tail, 55.8; 
culmen, 13.9; tarsus, 22.9mm. Average of five adult females: wing, 74.8; 
tail, 53.9; culmen, 13.3; tarsus, 22.6 mm. Six specimens taken in the 
moulting season were not measured. 
1 Names of colors given in quotation marks, refer to Ridgway’s ‘ Color Standards and 
Color Nomenclature,’ 1912. 
