i8S6.] Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. "Vl 



Dendroica adelaidse Baird. 



Dendroica adclaidcr Baird, Rev. Am. Bds. p. 212 (1864). 



Sylvicola (^Dcndrccca) adelaidcs Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. X, 



p. 251 (1S66). 

 Dendrozca adelaidcB Suxd. Oefv. K. Vet. Akad. P^orh. Stockh. 1869, p. 



615. — Gray, Handl. Bds. II, p. 241 (1S70). — Scl. & Salv. Nom. 



Avium Neotr. p. 9 (1S73). — Gundl. Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. VII, 



p. iSs (1878).— RiDGW. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. V, pp. 525, 526 (1883). 



— CouES, Kej N. Am. Bds. p. 297 (1884).— Cory, List Bds. W. I. 



p. 8 (1S85).— Sharps, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. X, p. 306 (1S85). 

 Dendroica gracicE var. adelaidcE Bd. Brew. & Ridgw. Hist. N. Am. Bds. 



I, p. 220 (1874). 



Sp. Char. Male: — "Entire upper parts, and sides of neck as far forward 

 as the ejes, uniform ash gray. Beneath, including edge of bend of 

 wing, bright jellow; lining of wings, axillaries, and crissum, 

 white. A broad jellow line from bill to eve, with the evelids jellow; 

 forehead and sides of vertex black. A black loral line. Wings 

 with two conspicuous white bands; the quills and tail-feathers 

 blackish, edged externally with whitish, internally with purer 

 white. There lateral tail-feathers with a quadrate terminal white 

 patch on inner web. Bill black. Legs pale yellowish." (Baird, 1. c). 

 Length, 4.7 ; wing, 2.1 ; tail, 2.05; tarsus, .65. 

 Habitat, Porto Rico. 



Dendroica adelaidae delicata. 



Dendrceca adelaidce Scl. P. Z. S. 1S71, p. 269. — Allen, Bull. Nutt. Orn. 



Club, V, p. 166 (1880). 

 Dendrceca adelaidce delicata Ridgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. V, p. ^2% (1882). 



—Cory, List Bds. W. L p. 8 (1885). 

 Dendrceca delicata Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. X, p. 306 (18S5). 



General appearance of D. adelaidce, but differs in having brighter 

 yellow on the superciliaries and underparts ; the yellow superciliary line 

 is broader, occupying the whole forehead except a narrow central line, 

 and the back more plumbeous; it is also slightly larger. 

 Length, 4.45; wing, 2.10; tail, 2. 10; tarsus, .70. 

 Habitat. Santa Lucia. 



Dendroica virens (Gmel.). 



Motacilla virens Gmel. Syst. Nat. I, p. 985 (1788). 

 Rhimamphus virens Gundl. J. f. O. 1855, P- 474 (Cuba). 

 Sylvicola virens Brewer Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 307 (i860) 

 rCuba). 



