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all the feathers acutely pointed. Median rectrices rather broad, lateral 

 ones narrowing rapidly to the outermost, which is extremely narrow. 

 Bill straight, black. 



Female. Above entirely green, with a slight cinnamon shade on the 

 rump. Under surface grayish-white, with a slight brownish tinge on tlie 

 breast. Tail-feathers rufous at base, then a narrow subterminal bar of 

 violaceous-black, and tipped with white. 



The next species I propose to call 



Selasphorus henshawi. 



Trochilus rnfus, Henshaw, Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Club, Vol. II, p. 53 

 (1877). 



Habitat. Mexico, northward along the Pacific coast to Sitka. 



Male. Top of the head metallic-green, rest of ui)per parts cinnamon, 

 but some specimens have green feathers intermixed with the rufous on the 

 back. Throat metallic-orange, not brilliant as in the other species. Breast, 

 and the centre of the abdomen, white ; flanks and under tail-coverts 

 rufous. Tail rufous, tipped with dark brown ; feathers pointed at tip, 

 median pair broad, lateral ones growing narrower to the outermost, which 

 is the most attenuated. On the inner web near the tip of the rectrices next the 

 central pair is a conspicuous well-developed notch. Bill black. Total 

 length, 3| inches ; wing, \h ; tail. If ; culmen, f . 



Female. Entire upper parts shining grass-green, dullest on the crown. 

 Throat white, spotted with brown. Under parts white ; washed with 

 rufous on the breast and flanks. Under tail-coverts buff". Median rec- 

 trices green ; lateral ones rufous at base, then a band of metallic-green, 

 succeeded by a subterminal broad black bar, and tips white. Bill black. 

 Length, 3| inches ; wing, 1| ; tail, 1| ; culmen, f . Young males similar 

 to the females, with a few metallic spots on the throat. 



THE YELLOW- THEOATED WARBLER {DENDRCECA 

 DOMINICA). 



BY WILLIAM BREWSTER. 



It is indeed surprising that a bird so generally distributed through- 

 out the Southern States as the above-named species should be so lit- 

 tle known. In " Histoiy of North American Birds" (Vol. I, p. 241), 

 Dr. Brewer prefaces his account of its habits by the remark that 

 its history " is very imperfectly known," and then proceeds to draw 

 upon the meagre and conflicting descriptions given by Wilson, 

 Audubon, and Nuttall. Although I cannot myself claim an ac- 



