428 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



a. Throat black ; continuous with black of cheeks ; or else very dark 

 plumbeous, scarcely distinguishable from the cheeks. 



Median line of throat white, the sides black like the cheeks ; chin 

 alone black. Superciliary stripes not confluent anteriorly. Hub. 



Martinique martinicana} 



Whole throat blackish. No white frontal band ? 



Wing 2.50 inches. Belly ochraceous. Hab. Dominica Isl- 

 and, West Indies dominicanur 



Wing 2.20 inches. Belly more yellow, Hab. Barbadoes . 



barbadensis.^ 

 Whole throat very dark plumbeous. A Avhitish frontal broad 

 band connecting the superciliary stripes which extend in front of 



the eye. Hab. Antigua, West Indies frontalis.'^ 



A grayish frontal band ; superciliary stripes narrow ; not extend- 

 ing in front of eye. Trace of white patch at base of primaries 



bartJiolemica? 

 B. Head blackish, in distinct contrast to the more olivacaceous back. Outer 

 tail-feather with outer web scarcely tipped with white. Wing-coverts not mar- 

 gined with paler. Throat light ash, in distinct contrast to black of cheek. 

 1. A distinct external white wing-patch at base of primaries. 



Rump olive-green. Hab. Mexico and Central America, but 



hardly reaching line of Panama R. R mexicana.^ 



Rump olive-yellow. Hab. Panama R. R. ; south along An- 

 des to Peru jieruviuna.'' 



a. No external white wing-patch. 



Rump olive-green. Hab. Brazil and Guiana . . . chloropijga.^ 



The preceding table is Imsed upon a critical examination of many hundred 

 specimens belonging to the Smithsonian Institution. — S. F. Baikd. 



Certhiola bahamensis, Eeich. 



BAHAMA CBEEFER. 



Certliia flaveola, var. /3. Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 12, I, 1766, 187. {"Ccrthia" bahamensis, 

 Catesby, Car. tab. 59. Bahamas.) Certhiola flaveola, Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 

 924, pi. Ixxxiii, f. 3 (Indian Key, Fla.). Certhiola bahamensis, Reich. Handb. I, 1853, 

 253 (Catesby, Car. tab. 59, Bahamas). — Cassin, Pr. A. N. S. Ph. 1864, 271. C. 

 bairdi, Cabanis, Jour. Orn. 1865, 412 (C. flaveola, Baikd, Birds N. A.). 



Sp. Char. (11,951 <J, Bahamas.) Above dark dusky-brown ; scarcely darker on the 

 head ; the rump yellow. Edge of wing and a triangular patch covering the front of breast 

 (the angle behind) pale yellow ; the rest of under parts pale ashy-white, purest on front 



1 C. martinicana, Reich. Hand. I, 1853, 252. C. albigula, BoN. 



2 C. dominicana, Taylor, Ibis, 1864, 167. 

 ^ C. barbadensis, Baird, MSS. 



* C. frontalis, Baird, MSS. 



^ C. bartholemica, Sundevall & Sparrmann, Vetensk. Akad. Forhandl. 1869, 622. 



6 C. onexicana, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1856, 286. 



■^ C peruviana. Cab. Journ. 1865, 413 ? Perhaps different. 



^ C. chloropyga, Cab. M. H. 1851, 97. C. brasiliensis, Bp. 



