542 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM VOL. 97 
Family COMPSOTHLYPIDAE: Wood Warblers 
DENDROICA PETECHIA AESTIVA (Gmelin): Eastern Yellow Warbler 
Motacilla aestiva GME tin, Systema naturae, vol. 1, pt. 2, 1789, p. 996 (Canada). 
SPECIMEN COLLECTED 
1 ad. 9, Venezuela, Soledad, December 10, 1929. 
The single specimen collected closely matches others from the 
eastern United States in coloration and size. 
DENDROICA STRIATA (Forster): Blackpoll Warbler 
Muscicapa striata Forster, Philos. Trans., vol. 62, 1772, p. 428 (Fort Severn, 
west coast of Hudson Bay). 
| SPECIMENS COLLECTED 
1 ad. o&, Venezuela, Raudal Corocoro, Brazo Casiquiare, February 9, 1931. 
1 ad. &, Venezuela, Brazo Casiquiare, near Cafio Mabinagui, February 20, 1931. 
lim. o&, Venezuela, San Antonio, Upper Orinoco, March 4, 1931. 
lad. o,2im. o, 1 unsexed adult (= @), 38 ad. 9, Venezuela, Cerro Yapacana, 
Upper Orinoco, April 10-20, 1931. 
_ The two February males are in winter plumage, the April males 
are largely in breeding plumage. In his account of the molts of this 
warbler Dwight (Ann. New York Acad. Sci., vol. 13, 1900, pp. 264— 
266) says that “the early beginning of the prenuptial moult is indicated 
by a specimen labeled Roraima, British Guiana, November Ist, which 
shows active moult in progress on the nape, back, abdomen, and sides, 
where black and white feathers are replacing yellowish ones.” This 
is certainly not borne out by the present series. However, the Raudal 
Corocoro male may be wrongly sexed as it is very greenish above and 
yellowish below, even more so than in any of the Cerro Yapacana 
females. 
SEIURUS NOVEBORACENSIS NOVEBORACENSIS (Gmelin): Northern Waterthrush 
Motacilla noveboracensis GMELIN, Systema naturae, vol. 1, pt. 2, 1789, p. 958 
(New York). 
SPECIMEN COLLECTED 
lad. o, Venezuela, Puerto Ayacucho, Amazonas, January 5, 1930. 
This specimen is of the typical race; its measurements are: wing 77, 
tail 52, culmen from the base 14.5; tarsus 21.5 mm., and its dorsal 
coloration is decidedly olivaceous. 
SETOPHAGA RUTICILLA RUTICILLA (Linnaeus): Southern Redstart 
Moiacilia Ruticilla LinNaEus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, 1758, p. 186 
(Virginia). 
SPECIMENS COLLECTED 
1 ad. ?, Brazil, Serra Imeri, near Salto do Hud, December Z, 1930. 
1 ad. o', Venezuela, San Antonio, Upper Orinoco, March 3, 1931. 
lad. &@, lim. @,4 ad. 9, Venezuela, Cerro Yapacana, Upper Orinoco, March 
20—April 11, 1931, 
