A A Cory on ihc Birds of the M'cst Indies. [January 



and extending to the nostril, just touching the lower mandible, 

 the black bordered posteriorly with pearl gray, becoming deeper 

 gray upon the crown ; vmderparts bright yellow, the flanks shaded 

 'with olive; quills brown, with the outer webs olive green; third 

 primary longest. 



Fe7nale:—T\\Q black band wanting; plumage slightly paler; a 

 pale ash-colored line from over the eye to sides of the neck ; crown 

 showing a trace of brown ; otherwise resembling the male. 



Length, 5.50; wing, 2.70; tail, 2.36; tarsus, .92; bill, .72. 

 Habitat. New Providence, Bahama Islands. 



Geothlypis trichas (Lixn.). 



Tiirdus trichns LiNX. Syst. Nat. I, p. 293 (1766). 



Sylvia trichas D'Orb. in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois. p. 67 (1S40) 

 (Cuba). 



Trichas inarylandica GossE, Bds. Jam. p. 14S (1S47). — Bryant, Pr. Host. 

 Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. no (1S59) (Bahamas). 



Trichas marilandica Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII. p. 307 (1S60) 

 (Cuba;. 



Geothlypis trichas Gundl. J. f. O. 1855, p. 472 ; ih. 1861, p. 326; ib. 1872, 

 p. 417; ib. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 236 (1S65) (Cuba). — Scl. 

 P. Z. S. 1861, p. 70 (Jamaica).— Albrecht, J. f. O. 1S62, p. 192 

 (Jamaica). — March, Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1S63, p. 293 (Ja- 

 maica).— Gundl. Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. VII, p. 187 (1S78) 

 (Porto Rico).— Cory, Bds. Bahama I. p. 72 (1S80) ; ib. Bull. Nutt. 

 Orn. Club, VI, p. i;i (1S81) ; ib. Bds. Haiti & San Domingo, p. 36 

 C1SS5) ; ih. List Bds. W. I. p. 9 (1885).— A. &i E. Newton, Ilandb. 

 Jam. p. 106 (iSSi). 



Common in winter in the Bahama Islands and Greater Antilles. 

 Ge\u> Microligea Cory. 



Mlcroligea Cory, Auk, I, p. 290 ( 1SS4). 



Microligea palustris Cory. 



ZzVcrt/a/«5/;-/5 Cory, Auk, I, p. i (18S4) ; ib. Bds. Haiti & San Domingo, 



p. 38 (1SS5).— Sharpe, Cat. Bds Brit. Mus. X, p. 349 (1885). 

 MicroliiTca palustris Cory, Auk, I, p. 290 (1S84) ; ib. List Bds. W. I. p. 9 



(isss). 



