M5. H] 



Islands of the Coast of Yucatan, S^c. 247 



ELMINTHOPHAGA PEREGRINA. 



Helminthojjhaga ][>eregr'ma (Wils.) ; Salv. & Godm., Biol. 

 Centr.-Ara., Aves, i. p. 117. 



Cozumel I. (January) ; Ruatau I. ; Bonacca I. (Sep- 

 tember) . 



A migratory species, specially abundant in the highlands 

 of Guatemala in winter. It is hardly known in Cuba, but 

 reaches Northern Colombia in its winter migration. 



M6. PaRULA AMERICANA. 



Panda americana (Linn.); Salv. & Godra. Biol. Ceutr.- 

 Am., Aves, i. p. 11 J. 



Compsothlypis americana, Ridgw. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 

 viii. p. 563. 



Holbox I. (December) ; Mugeres I. (December) ; Cozumel 

 I. (January and April) ; Ruatau I. ; Bonacca I. (September). 



A common migratory species in Southern Mexico and 

 Eastern Guatemala, being also found in Cuba and several of 

 the more northern islands of the Antilles. 



17. Dendr(eca estiva. 



DendrcRca cestiva (Gm,); Salv, & Godm. Biol. Centr.-Am., 

 Aves, i. p. 12-i. 



Holbox I. (December) ; Mugeres I. (December) ; Ru- 

 atau I. 



Many specimens in all stages of plumage, tlie birds from 

 Ruatau Island being perhaps the more heavily spotted 

 beneath. 



In Ruatau Island this appears to be the only species of 

 this section of Dendrmca. In the adjoining island of Bonacca 

 \xe find D. bryanti, to the exclusion of D. astiva. 



— 18. Dendr(eca petechia. 



Dendroeca petechia rufivertex, Ridgw. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 

 viii. pp. 348, 563. 



Cozumel I. (January, April). 

 Many specimens in various stages of plumage. 

 We do not possess a good series of the Jamaica bird, the 

 true D. peteclna, but, so far as I can see, there is nothing to 



