218 NORTH AMERICAN MRDS. 



Breast and sides tn'fh ouhj very narrow or scarrely appreciable streaks of 

 rufous ; outer webs of triiKj-corerts, etc., scarcely different from general 

 surface. 



RufDiis of the lit-ad confined to it, and abruptly defined all round. 

 Wing-formula, 3. 2 = 4, 1, o; win<r, 2.70; tail, 2.2.'); hill. .M ; 

 tarsus, .72. llab. Mexico (from Honduras and Yucatan to Ma- 

 zatlan) ......... var. hr y a n t i } 



Series IT. 



Prevailing color yellow; crown, rump, and crissum with spots of iiilous; a 

 band of the same on the side of the head, from bill (meeting both on forehead 

 and on chin) an)und eye and over ear-coverts. 

 I). D. eoa.* Hab. Jamaica (Gosse). 



Group B. 



Base of primaries with white patch. 



Two white bands on wing Senes J, 



No white bands on wing . . . Series II. 



Base of primaries without white j)atch. 

 Rump yellow. 



Crown with a yell«jw spot Series III. 



Crown without a yellow spot . . . . . . . Series IV. 



Rump not yellow. 



Throat white (with black streaks in striata and pJiaretra) . . Series V. 



Throat yellow or orange ........ Series VI. 



Throat black, or mixed with black Series VII 



Series I. 



7. D. olivacea. ^. Hend and neck, all round, fine light orange- 

 rufous ; a broad blat-k " spectaele " along side of .the head. 9 • I*'''»d 

 yellowish,-tlusky on top ; spectacle obsolete. Hab. Whole of Eastern 

 Mexico ; Guatemala. 



Series IT. 



8. D. cserulescens. ^. Head dark blue above and black imdemeath ; 

 a black patch covering whole lateral and under side of head and lateral 

 lower parts. Rest of upper parts dark blue; bases of primaries and 

 abdomen pure white. 9 • Above olive, with a light superciliary stripe ; 

 beneath wholly light greenish-buft*; base of primaries white. Hab. 

 Eastern Province of United States ; in winter south into Cuba, Jamaica, 

 and St. Domingo. 



propriety be used, as under that head he includes specimens from Carthagena (true vieiUoti), 

 Costa Rica, and Mexico (the latter hryanti). 



1 D. vicdloti, var. brifnnfi, Ridoway. 



2 Sylvicdla C(M(, GossE, Birds of Jamaica, 1847, 158; Illustrations Birds Jam. Den d mica coo, 

 Baiud, Rev. 195. The true i>osition of this si)ecies is very uncertain, owing to the imixirfect 

 description, or nither the incomplete plumage, of the ty[>es. There is no <loubt, liowever, that it 

 is entirely different from any other, ami in its liaving, as expressly stated, the inner webs yellow, 

 thus bringing it into «"los<* relation with the "(iolden Warblers." 



