i886.] Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. 3 I 



Female: — Similar to the male, but somewhat paler, and sliowing 

 less yellow on the tail. 



Length (skin), 4.8: wing, 2.45: tail. 2.15; tarsus, .83. 

 Habitat. Cuba. Accidental in the Bahama Ishinds. 



Dendroica petechia ruficapilla. 



Motacilla riificafilla Gmel. Syst. Nat. I, p. 971 (1788). 



Sy/vicola ruficapilla Bp. Consp. I, p. 307 (1850). 



Dendroica ruficapilla Baird, Rev. Am. Bds. p. 201 (1864). 



Dendrxca ruficapilla Gray, Handl. Bds. I, p. 240 (1869). — Sharpe, Cat. 



Bds. Brit. Mus. X, p. 275 (1885). 

 Detidroica petechia var. ruficapilla Bn. Bwr. & Rinow. Hist. N. Am. 



Bds. I, p. 217 (1874)- 

 Dendrceca petechia var. ruficapilla Lawr. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. I, p. 486 



(1878). 

 Dendroeca petechia ruficapilla Cory, List Bds. W. L p. 8 (18S5). 



Length, 4.75: wing, 2.6; tail, 2.10: tarsus. .82. 



Thi.s form approaches very closely to D. petechia^ but lacks 

 the distinct rufous crown. Throat streaked heavily; the under 

 tail-coverts are also streaked ; otherwise like D. petechia. 



Habitat. Barbuda, Antigua, Porto Rico, and St. Thomas. 



Dendroica petechia melanoptera. 



Dendroica petechia var. melanoptera Lawr. Pr. LT. S. Nat. Mus. I, p 



453 (1878). 

 Dendrceca petechia melanoptera Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 8 (1885). 

 Dendroeca melanoptera Sharpe. Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. X, p. 279 (1885). 



Length. 4.50; wing, 2.30; tail. 1.85: tarsus. .69. 



This form resembles petechia rnjicapilla. as would be ex- 

 pected, bvit varies in having the wing-coverts black, and it is 

 somewhat smaller in size ; the rufous streaks are narrower and 

 darker. The female lacks the rufous crown and stripes on the 

 luider surface. 



Habitat. Guadeloupe and Dominica. 



Dendroica capitalis Lawr. 



Dendroeca petechia c. barbadcnsis Sund. Oefv. K. Vet. Akad. Forh. 



1869, p. 608. 

 Dendrceca capitalis Lawr. Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 186S, p. 359. — Gray. 



Handl. Bds. Ill, Index, p. 202 (1871).— Coues, Key N. Am. Bds. p. 



