218 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Breast and sides tuith 07i.Ii/ very narroiu or scarcely appreciahle streaks of 

 rufous ; outer luebs of to in (j- coverts, etc., scarcely different from general 

 surface. 



Rufous of the head confined to it, and abruptly defined all round. 

 Wmg-formula, 3, 2 = 4, 1, 5; wing, 2.70; tail, 2.25; bill, .31; 

 tarsus, .72. Ilab. Mexico (fi-om Honduras and Yucatan to Ma- 

 zatlan) " . . . . yar. Iryavti. 



Series II. 



Prevailing color yellow ; crown, rump, and crissum with spots of i-ufous ; a 

 band of the same on the side of the head, from bill (meeting both on forehead 

 and on chin) aroiuid eye and over ear-coverts. 

 6. D. eoa.* Hah. Jamaica (Gosse). 



Group B. 



Base of primaries with white patch. 



Two white bands on wing Series / 



No white bands on wing Series II. 



Base of primaries without white patch. 

 Rump yellow. 



Crown with a yelloAV spot . ... . . . . . Series III. 



Crown without a yellow spot ....... Series /T'. 



Rump not yellow. 



Throat white (with black streaks in striata and jjharetra') . . Series V. 



Throat yellow or orange ........ Series VI. 



Throat black, or mixed with black Series VII. 



Series I. 



7. D. olivacea. ^. Head and neck, all round, fine light orange- 

 rufous ; a broad black " spectacle " along side of the head. 9 • Head 

 yellowish, dusky on top ; spectacle obsolete. Mab. Whole of Eastern 

 Mexico ; Guatemala. 



Series II. 



8. D. ceerulescens. ^. Head dark blue above and black underneath ; 

 a black patch covering whole lateral and imder side of head and lateral 

 lower parts. Rest of upper parts dark blue : bases of primaries and 

 abdomen pure white. 9 • Above olive, with a light superciliary stripe ; 

 beneath wholly light greenish-buff; base of primaries white. Hah. 

 Eastern Province of United States ; in winter south into Cuba, Jamaica, 

 and St, Domingo. 



propriety be used, as under that head he includes specimens from Carthagena (true vicilloti), 

 Costa Rica, and Mexico (the latter hryanti). 



^ D. vicilloti, var. bryanti, Ridgway. 



2 Sylvicola eoa, GossE, Birds of Jamaica, 1847, 158; Illustrations Birds Jam. Dcndroica eoa, 

 Baird, Rev. 195. The true position of this species is very uncertain, owing to the imperfect 

 description, or rather the incomplete plumage, of the types. There is no doubt, however, that it 

 is entirely different from any other, and in its having, as expressly stated, the inner webs yellow, 

 thus bringing it into close relation witli the " Golden Warblers." 



