iSS6.] Cory on the Birds of ihe Went Indies. '1 -? 



^^Male: — Upper parts olive, approaching to yellow on the rump ; sides of 

 head marked with a band of orange, extending from the ear to the 

 beak, and meeting both on the forehead and on the chin. Wings 

 (quills and coverts) blackish, with yellowish edges. Tail blackish- 

 olive, with yellow edges ; the outermost two feathers on each side 

 have the greatest portion of the inner webs pale yellow. Un- 

 derparts pale yellow. The crown, rump, tertials, belly, and 

 under tail-coverts sparsely marked with undefined spots of pale 

 orange. 



'•'Female: — Nearly as in the male, but the deep orange is spread 

 over the whole cheeks, chin, throat, and breast. The head and back 

 are dusky gray, tinged with olive, and patched with the fulvous much 

 more largely, but irregularly, as if laid upon the darker hue. 

 Length, 5 inches; expanse, 760; wing, 2.70; tail, 1.90; rictus 

 nearly. 60; tarsus, .go; middle toe, .50. Iris dark hazel ; feet horn- 

 color; beak pale horn; culmen and tip darker." {Gosse, 1. c). 

 Habitat. Jamaica. 



Mr. Sharpe considers D. eoa to be a hybrid between D. black- 

 burnice and D. petechia or D. cestiva. The tvj^e specimens 

 are in the British Museum. 



/ 

 Dendroica caerulescens (Gmel.). 



Motacilla ccBrulcscens Gmel. S^^st. Nat. I, p. 960 (17SS). 



Sylvia ccertilescens D'Orb. in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois. p. 63 



(1S40). 

 Sylvicola patinosa Goss^, Bds. Jam. p. 162(1847). 

 Sylvicola canadensis GossE, Bds. Jam. p. 162 (1S47). — Salle, P. Z. S. 



1S57, p. 231 (San Domingo). — Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. 1 list. 



VII, p. no (1S59) (Bahamas). — Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 



VII, p. 307 (iS6o) (Cuba). 

 Rhimamfhus canadensis Gukdl. J. f. O. 1S55, p. 473 ; 1S61, p. 40S (Cuba). 

 Dcndra'ca pannosa A'LBRKCHT, J. f. O. 1S62, p. 193 (Jamaica). 

 Defidroica canadensis Gundl. J. f. O. 1861, p. 396 (Cuba). — March, Pr. 



Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1S63, p. 293 (1863) (Jamaica). 

 Dcndrceca catiadensis ScL. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 70 (Jamaica). — Albrecht, J. 



f. O. 1S62, p. 193. 

 Dandroica ccBrulescens Baird, Rev. Am. Bds. p. 1S6 (1864) (.''). — Gundl. 



Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 233 (1865) ; ih. J. f O. 1872, p. 413 



(Cuba); ib. Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. VII, p. 179(1878) (Porto 



Rico). 

 Sylvicola (^Dendra;(a) canadensis Bryaxt, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. XI, 



p. 91 (1S67). 

 Dejidroeca ccernlesccn'i Cory, Bds. Bahama I. p. 58 (iSSo) : ib. Bull. Nutt. 



Orn. Club, Yl, p. 151 (iSSi) ; ib. Bds. Haiti & San Domingo, p. 26 



