AQ Cory o)i the Birds of the West Indies. [January 



Deudrceca palmarum ScL. P. Z. S. iS6i, p. 71 (Jamaica).— Albrecht. 



j. f. O. 1S62, p. 93 (Jamaica). — Cory, Bds. Bahama I. p. 68 (iSSo). 



■ — A. & E. Newton, Handb. Jamaica, p. 106 (iSSi). 

 3\'lvicola {Dc?idrceca) faltnarum Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. XI, 



p. 91 (1S67). 



Common in winter in the Bahama Islands and Greater An- 

 tilles. 



Dendroica plumbea Lawr. 



Deudrceca flnmbea Lawr. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. I, p. 47 (1S7S) ; ib. Pr. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus. I. P.4S6 (1878).— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 8 (1SS5). 

 — Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. X, p. 333 (1885). 



Sp. Char. Male: — General plumage above dark plumbeous ; a superciliary 

 stripe of white from the bill; a spot of white on the lower eyelid; 

 lores very dark brown, almost black : underparts mixed with ashy 

 and dull white; outer tail-feather tipped with white on the inner 

 web; next feather showing a smaller spot ; next two narrowly tip 

 ped with white; middle and greater wing-coverts tipped with white, 

 forming two wing-bands. 



Female : — Above dark olive : underparts grayish, tinged with olive ; 

 showing a pale vellowish wash on the throat, breast and middle of 

 the abdomen. 



Length (skin), 5.20; wing, 2.45; tail, 2.25; tarsus, .72. 

 Habitat. Guadeloupe and Dominica. 



Genus Leucopeza Scl. 



Lencopeza Sclater, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 14. 



Leucopeza semperi Scl. 



Leucopeza semperi Scl. P. Z. S. 1S76, p. 14.— Allen, Bull. Nutt. Orn. 

 Club, V, p. 166 (1880).— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 8 (1885).— Sharpe, 

 Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. X, p. 228 (1SS5). 



Sp. Char. Male: — General plumage above dai'k bluish gray; slightly 

 brownish on lower back and rump; sides of head and ear-coverts 

 slightly paler ; throat and breast grayish white, shading into brown- 

 ish on the belly; crissum. axillaries and under wing-coverts ashy 

 grav, edged with dull white. 



Length, 5.70; wing, 2.60; tail, 2.20; tarsus, 88; bill, .68. 

 Habitat. Santa Lucia. 



