DENDROICA. Don 
reaches the shaft on the outer three feathers alone, and in fact even 
here the upper surface shows a slight suffusion of the color of the 
shaft along its inneredge. The isolation on the fourth feather, how- 
ever, amounts to two or three hundredths of an inch, and on the 
fifth to half the web. In most specimens, however, there is more 
or less brown along the inside of all the shafts. In high plumaged 
males of zstiva the yellow reaches the shaft in the outer five feathers, 
the fifth exhibiting a slight suffusion only in its terminal half; some- 
times, however, this suffusion is seen on the fourth. There is con- 
siderably less yellow on the inner edges of the quills than in exstiva 
in which the yellow reaches the shaft near the base. 
The orange-brown tinge to the whole top of the head is an im- 
portant character of petechia, even though sometimes wanting or 
obscured. Not unfrequently, however, traces of the same are seen in 
zstiva ; and one specimen (4,300, Louisiana) has as much reddish 
in the crown as many males of petechia. 
I have not noticed, in petechia, the obscure brownish streaks seen 
on the backs of high plumaged specimens of estiva; and the rump — 
is more uniformly greenish-olive, instead of having the feathers 
much edged with yellow. 
| 
Smith- Collee- Sex When 
sonian| tor’s | and Locality. Received from Collected by 
No. No. | Age. Collected. 
23,314 62 rofl |Savannah le Mar. | Aug. 2, 758. P. L. Sclater. W. Osburn. 
23,315 62 © | Portland,Jam.[Jam.} April, 1859. ss 5 
24.354 | 196 | g /|Spanishtown, Jam. | Aug. 28, 61. Wi Dear "| FFreen ae 
26,898 38 fof os Aug, 1862. SS ih aces lckgeritivck tsar 
26,809 | 238 g ES CoP dg WT nc | Sana otetccenets 
24,353 | 202 of Ee Aug. 28, 61. A a Bet |e aioe 
24,352 -. | Juv © si SE SY Oe le ph aiavereeat 
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Dendroica 
?Motacilla ruficapilla, Gmuuin, §. N. I, 1788, 971 (based on Ficedula 
martinicana, Brisson, III, 490, pl. xxii, fig. 4, Martinique). 
2Chloris erithachorides, Fevitib, Jour. Obs. Phys. II, 413. 
2Dendroica estiva, Newton, Ibis, I, 1859, 143 (St. Croix). 
?Dendroica petechia, Cassin, Pr. A. N. Sc. 1860, 192, 376 (St. Thomas). 
—? Sylvia petechia, Vir. Ois. Am. Sept. II, 1807, 32, pl. 91 (“* U. 
States’’). 
I have little doubt that the Golden Warblers of St. Croix and St. 
Thomas are specifically different from those inhabiting Jamaica 
and Cuba respectively, and would not be much surprised to find 
that each of the first-mentioned islands, as well as others of the 
West Indian group, possessed a Golden Warbler peculiar to itself. 
