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one in spring on May 1. Poole and Perry go in 1929 secured speci- 

 mens at St. Michel January 5 and 14, St. Kaphael January 11, and 

 Pont Sonde February 27. On Gonave Island they took three at En 

 Cafe March 4 and 7, in company with the Maryland yellowthroat. 

 Ekman found the yellowthroat on Navassa Island in October, 1928. 



Sylvia pumilia of Vieillot 43 which he records from " Saint- 

 Domingue " among other places, may perhaps be the female of the 

 yellowthroat. 



Five specimens in the United States National Museum represent 

 the subspecies brachidactyla, as do five in the Museum of Compara- 

 tive Zoology according to Peters, and the four taken by Verrill at 

 Samana (which have been examined by Wetmore through the cour- 

 tesy of Mr. J. H. Fleming). Beebe has reported a specimen of 

 the southern yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas ignota from Bizoton, 

 Haiti, April 7, 1927, but after careful comparison Wetmore has 

 determined it to be G. t. brachidactyla. 



The northern yellowthroat is from 125 to 135 mm. long, being 

 bright olive green above and bright yellow on the throat and breast, 

 becoming yellowish white on the abdomen. The male has a mask of 

 black extending from the ear region across the sides of the head 

 and forehead, bordered on the forehead with white. The male is 

 easily identified but the female is difficult. In the hand the yellow- 

 throat is easily told by the fact that it has no rictal bristles. 



SETOPHAGA RUTICILLA (Linnaeus) 

 REDSTART, PETIT CHIT 



Motacilla ruticilla Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. 1, 1758, p. 186 (Vir- 

 ginia). 



Redstart, Beck, Nat. Hist., vol. 21, 1921, p. 41 (Loma Tina). 



Huscicapa ruticilla, Vieillot, Hist. Nat. Ois. Am6r. Sept., vol. 1, 1807, p. 66 

 (" Saint-Doiningue ") . 



Setophaga ruticilla, Salle, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1857, p. 231 (Dominican 

 Republic). — Bryant, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 11, May, 1867, p. 91 

 (Dominican Republic, Haiti).— Cory, Bull. Nuttall Ornith. Club, 1881, p. 151 

 (winter) ; Birds Haiti and San Domingo, March, 1884, p. 40 (common) ; Cat. 

 West Indian Birds, 1892, p. 120 (Haiti, Dominican Republic). — Tristram, Ibis, 

 1884, p. 168 (Dominican Republic) ; Cat. Coll. Birds belonging H. B. Tristram, 

 1889, p. 175 (Rivas, specimens). — Ttppenhauer, Die Insel Haiti, 1892, p. 321 

 (listed). — Cherrie, Field Columbian Mus., Ornith. ser., vol. 1, 1S96, p. 12 

 (tolerably common). — Christy, Ibis, 1S97, p. 321 (Sanchez, specimen). — Ver- 

 rill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 61, 1909, p. 365 (abundant).— 

 Peters, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 61, 1917, p. 419 (Sostia, Ric San Juan 

 specimens). — Penard, Auk. 1926, p. 377 (at sea near Haiti). — Beebe, Zool. Soc. 

 Bull., vol. 30, 1927, p. 141; Beneath Tropic Seas, 1928, p. 224 (Port-au-Prince).— 

 Bond, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 80, 1928, p. 514 (Haiti, Gonave 

 Island).— Ekman, Ark. for Bot., vol. 22A, no. 16, 1929, p. 7 (Navassa).— 

 Moltoni, Att. Soc. Ital. Scienz. Nat., vol. 68, 1929, p. 324 (San Juan, specimens). 



"Hist. Nat. Ois. Ani<5r. Sept., vol. 2, 1807. p. 39. 



