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birds in the series at hand are also very slightly larger as the follow- 

 ing will indicate: 



Ten males from Gonave Island, wing 64.2-68.0 (65.9), tail 50.0- 

 57.0 (52.1), culmen from base 12.3-13.1 38 (12.8), tarsus 20.5-22.3 



(21.3) mm. 



Seven females from Gonave Island, wing 61.3-63.2 (62.2), tail 

 46.9-51.0 (48.9), culmen from base 11.5-12.9 (12.2), tarsus 21.2-22.0 



(21.4) mm. 



Type specimen, male, wing 67.0, tail 57.0, culmen from base 12.5, 

 tarsus 21.5 mm. 



In size and brighter color the present race shows approach to 

 D. p. eoa of Jamaica but is less golden yellow, with the dark colora- 

 tion of the anterior part of the crown rufescent rather than orange 

 brown. 



In the collection from Picmy, Gonave Island there is a bird in full 

 juvenal plumage taken by Abbott July 7, 1920. Above this individ- 

 ual is light brownish olive, somewhat more yellowish on the crown; 

 lores, a line over the eye and a line of feathers across the lower 

 eyelid pale olive-buff; ear-coverts deep olive-buff; wing quills dull 

 blackish, with proximal half of primaries margined with yellowish 

 citrine ; distal half of primaries and secondaries edged with whitish ; 

 greater wing coverts blackish tipped' and edged with cartridge buff 

 to form a wing bar; middle and lesser coverts light j^ellowish olive, 

 the former edged with cartridge buff to form a second wing bar; 

 rectrices blackish edged externally with olive-yellow, this color espe- 

 cially prominent toward the base; inner webs of rectrices strontian 

 yellow; throat and under tail coverts olive-buff; breast deep olive 

 buff ; abdomen pale olive-buff ; under wing-coverts and inner margins 

 of primaries citron yellow. One adult female has patches of grayish 

 white on the throat and chest. The type specimen of the race 

 (No. 278738, U.S.N.M.) was taken at fitroites March 18, 1920. 



DENDROICA TIGRINA (Gmelin) 

 CAPE MAY WARBLER, PETIT CHIT 



Motacilla tigrina Gmelin, Syst. Nat., vol. 1, pt. 2, 1789, p. 985 (Canada). 



? Figuier a gorge jaune, Buffon, Hist. Nat. Ois., vol. 5, 1778, pp. 288-289 

 (" Saint-domingue "). 



? Ficedula Ludomciana Brisson, Ornith., vol. 3, 1760, pp. 500-502, pi. 26, 

 fig. 4. ("Saint-domingue"). 



Sylvia tigrina, Vieillot, Hist. Nat. Ois. Amer. Sept., vol. 2, 1807, p. 34 

 (migrant). 



Sylvia maritima, Ritter, Naturh. Reis. Westind. Insel Hayti, 1S36, p. 156 

 (specimen). 



Sylvwola tigrina, Bryant, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 11, May, 1867, 

 p. 91 (Haiti). 



88 Average of nine. 



