212 XORTII AMERICA. n' IHUDS. 



P. carbonata. No white patclies on tail-feadiers. 



No clitstiiut sibout lu'iul. Two bam Is on tlio winjr, tlu» antorior one 

 white, the posterior yellow. Outer web ol" lateral tail-leather whitish. 



Perissoglossa tigrina, hxini). 



CAPE MAT WABBLEB. 



MotticiUutigrhui, Gmklin, Syn. Nat. 1, 1788, OS.^i. Sijlria tig. Lath. Denilroka fiij. Baiui>, 

 Minis N. Am. 18r.8, 28t5. — StLATKU, ratal. 18(51, :J3, no. 1!>8 ; P. Z. S. 1861, 71 

 (Jamaiia, April). — Mahch, Pr. An. Sc. 1863, 293 (Janiaiia ; hn-tuls). — A. & E. Nkw- 

 Tox, IbLs 1859, 144 (St. Croix. Notes on anatomy of ton<?iie). — (Jinklach, Cab. 

 Jour. 1861, 326 (Cuba; not rare). —Samuels, 240. Pfrisfuxj/os.'ni tltjrimi, lUiuD, Kt*v. 

 Am. Birds, 1864, 181. .SV/'i/<r hutritiina, Wil.sox, Am. Orn. VI, 1812, 99, pi. liv, 

 tig. 3. — Box. ; NiTT. ; Arn. Oni. Biog. V, pi. ('(('ixiv. — D'C^itn. La Sagni's Cub. 

 1840, 70, pi. X. Siflvii-ola mar. Jakd., Box., Aud. Birds Am. II, pi. ixxxv. (Vrthi- 

 ola mar. CossE, Birds Jam. 1847, 81. — Ib. Illust. Khimamphus mar. Cab. Jour. 

 Ill, 1855, 474 ^Cuba.) 



Sp. Char. Bill very acute, conical, and decidedly curved. Rill and feet black. Upper 

 part of liead dull black, some of the feathers iiiiiitly margined with li<j:ht yellowish-brown. 

 Collar scarcely meeting behind ; munp and under parts generally rich yellow. Throat, fore- 

 part of breast, and sides, streaked with black. Abdomen and lower tail-coverts pale yel- 

 low, brighter about the vent. Ear-coverts light reddish-cliestnut. Back part of a yellow 

 line from m^strils over the eye of this same color ; chin and throat tinged also with it. A 

 black line from connnissure through the eye, and ruiming into the chestnut of the ear- 

 coverts. Back, shoulder, edges of the wing and tail, y«'llowish-olive : the former spotted 

 with duskv. One row of small coverts, and outer bases of the secondary coverts, form a 

 large patch of white, tinged with pale y»'llow. Tertials rather broadly edged with brown- 

 ish-white. Quills and tail dark brown, the three outer feathers of the latter largely marked 

 with white on the inner web ; ei\»:e of the outer wel) of the outer feathers white, more 

 perceptible towards the base. T^ength, 5.2.") ; wing, 2.84 ; tail, 2.15. 



Female. Above olivaceous-ash, most yellowish on rump ; no black nor chestnut on 

 head. Wing-coverts inconspicuously edged with whitish. Tail-spots very inconspicuous. 

 Beneath dull white tinge*! with yellowish ou the breast, and streaked as in the male, 

 but witli dusky grayish instead of black. 



IIab. Eastern Province of United States, north to Lake Winnipeg and Moose Factory ; 

 all the West Indies to St. Croix. Breed.s in Jamaica. Not recorded from Mexico or Cen- 

 tral America. 



The chestnut about the head in adult males varies in amount with the 

 individual; sometimes (as in 20,033, May, Moose Factory, Hudson's liay Ter- 

 ritory) there is an oblong spot of chestnut in the middle of the crown, but 

 generally this is absent. Very fret^uently tlie chestnut tinges the tliroat. All 

 variations in these res])ects appear, however, to be individual, and not de- 

 pendent at all on locality. West Indian specimens appear to be absolutely 

 identical witli tliose from Xortli America. 



Autumnal specimens are browner, the cliestnut markings nnicli obscured. 



Habits. This somewhat rare species, so far as its history and distribution 

 are known with certainty, is migratory in the principal jwrtions of the United 



