480 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



b l . Black loral streak narrower than the white above it ; cheeks white almost 

 up to the eye ; white of throat extended over almost whole of chest, 

 and yellow of breast not extended over flanks, which are pale grayish, 

 sometimes faintly tinged with 3 7 ellow ; rump usually pure gamboge-yel- 

 low ; lower tail-coverts and anal region pure white ; length about 4.25- 

 4.75, wing 2.30-2.65, tail 1.65-1.95, exposed culmen .5S-.65, tarsus .75-.80. 

 Eggs .67 X -50. Hab. Bahamas, Florida Keys, and portions of adjacent 

 coast of southern Florida, north to Charlotte Harbor. 



635. C. bahamensis EEICH. Bahama Honey Creeper. 



6 1 . Black loral streak as wide as or wider than white above it, and continued 

 backward broadly beneath eye ; white of throat extended over only 

 upper part of chest; yellow of breast continued backward over flanks, 

 and even tingeing anal region and lower tail-coverts ; yellow of rump 

 usually perceptibly tinged with olive, and upper parts in general aver- 

 aging somewhat darker; dimensions essentially the same as in 0. baha- 

 mensis. Hab. Cozumel Island, coast of Yucatan. 



C. caboti BAIRD. Cozumel Honey Creeper. 1 



a\ Adult with chin, throat, and malar region deep ash-gray ; back, scapulars, etc., 

 dull grayish olive or smoky slate, in marked contrast with black of top of 

 head ; rump yellowish olive. Young : Chin, throat, etc., dull light grayish 

 yellow, scarcely different from color of other lower parts; upper parts dull 

 smoky olive. 



White spot at base of quills much reduced in size ; rump yellowish olive- 

 green, or olive-yellow ; entire lower parts posterior to throat oil-yellow, 

 becoming paler and much duller on flanks and under tail-coverts ; length 

 (skins) about 3.60-3.75, wing 2.05-2.30, tail 1.35-1.55. Hab. Middle 

 America, from eastern Mexico to Chiriqui. 



C. mexicana SCL. Mexican Honey Creeper.* 



FAMILY MNIOTILTID^E. THE WOOD WARBLERS. (Page 322.) 



Genera. 



Gape with very small bristles, or none. 



b l . Hind-toe, with claw, as long as naked portion of tarsus in front ; claw of 

 middle too on the same line, vertically, with the toe. 



Plumage striped with black and white, the latter prevailing on lower 



parts Mniotilta. (Page 483.) 



b*. Hind-toe, with claw, much shorter than naked portion of tarsus, in front ; 

 claw of middle toe (looking from above) set obliquely to the axis of the toe. 

 c 1 . Middle toe, with claw, as long as or longer than tarsus, in front, the 

 wing without white bands or other markings. 



i Certhiola caboti " BAIRD, MS." Fisscn, Verb, der K. K. Zool.-bot. Gesellsch. Wien, 1871, 780. 

 * Certhiola mexicana SCL., P. Z. S. 1856, 286. 



