240 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Dendroica dominica, Baird. 



YELLOW-THROATED GRAY WARBLER. 



Motacilla dominica, L. Syst. Nat. 12th ed. 1766, 334 {Ficedula dominica cin^rea, Briss. 

 Ill, 520, pi. xxvii, fig. 3). Dendroica dominica, Baird, Rev. Am. Birds, 209. Mota- 

 cilla superciliosa, Bodd^rt, Tableau PI. enl. 686, fig. 1, 178-3. Dendroica superciliosa, 

 Baird, Birds IST. Am. 1858, 289.^ — Sclater (Xalapa, Oaxaca, Jamaica, Mexico).— 

 ScLATER & Salvin, IMs, 1860, 274 (Duenas, Guat. ; Sept.). — March, Pr. A. N. Sc. 

 1863, 293 (Jamaica). — Gundlagh, Cab. Jour. 1861, 326 (Cuba ; very common). Afo- 

 tacilla flavicollis, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 959. Sylvia fl. Lath. ; Wils. II, pi. 

 xii, fig. 6. Motacilla pensilis, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 960. Sylvia 2>. Lath. : 

 ViEiLL. (St. Domingo). — Bon. ; Aud. Orn. Biog. I, pi. Ixxxv ; Nutt. Sylvicola ixns. 

 Rich ; Bon. ; Aud. Birds Am. II, pi. Ixxix. — Gosse, Birds Jam. 1847, 156 (Jamaica). 

 Rhimanphus pens. Cab. Jour. Ill, 474 (Cuba). 



Other localities : Cordova, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1856, 291. St. Domingo, Sallj5, P. Z. S. 

 1857, 231. Jamaica, Gosse, Birds Jam. 156. 



Sp. Char. Upper parts uniform grayish-blue. Chin and throat bright yellow ; under 

 parts white. Forehead, and sometimes most of crown, lores and cheeks, sides of throat, 

 and numerous streaks on the sides of the breast, black. A stripe from the nostrils over and 

 behind the eye, a crescent on the lower eyelid, the sides of the neck behind the black cheek- 

 patch, and two conspicuous bands on the wings, white. Terminal half of the outer webs 

 of the outer two, and terminal third of the third tail-feathers, white. Female almost 

 precisely similar. Length, 5.10 ; wing, 2.60; tail, 2.30. (3,.322.) 



Hab. Eastern Province of United States, north to Washington and Cleveland ; in win- 

 ter abundant in Cuba ; St. Domingo and Jamaica ; Mexico (Colima on west coast), and 

 Guatemala. Resident in Jamaica? 



An autumnal male (No. 1,098, Washington, D. C.) has the bluish-ash 

 above obscured by a wash of brown ; the black " mask " less sharply defined, 

 the streaks on forehead wanting ; the yellow paler and duller, and the white 

 beneath soiled with brownish. 



In general pattern of coloration this species resembles two others ; one 

 from Arizona, the other from Porto Eico. The diagnoses are as follows : — 



Common Characters. Upper parts ash-gray, the forehead and sides of vertex 

 black. A line from nostril to above eye (passing into white behind), chin, and 

 throat, yellow, margined laterally with blackish ; crissum, inside of wings, axillars* 

 and two bands on wings, white. 



Superciliary line extending to the nape, and white, excepting sometimes 

 anterior to the eye. Cheeks black, separated from the ash of the neck by 

 a white patch. Eyelids and infra-ocular crescent white. Back not streaked. 

 Bill lengthened, gonys almost concave. 



Yellow confined to jugulum ; rest of under parts white ; the sides 

 streaked with black .... ..... dominica. 



Superciliary line scarcely extending beyond the eye, and yellow, excepting 

 at extreme end. Cheeks ashy, like sides of neck ; dusky only near the eye, 

 and not bordered on side of neck behind by white. Eyelids and infra- 

 ocular crescent yellow. Back streaked. Bill short, gonys slightly convex. 



