352 CAMPS IN THE CARIBBEES'. 



the innermost secondaries dark rufous, with distinct narrow bars of 

 black ; upper mandible dark-brown, the under yellowish-white ; feet 

 pale brown. 



Length, 4$ in. ; wing, 2\ ; tail, if; tarsus, \\\ bill from front, T \ ; 

 from rictus, |. 



Type in National Museum, Washington. 



2. Dendrceca -plumbed. 



Male. The whole of the upper plumage is dark plumbeous ; a 

 narrow white line extends from the bill, over and beyond the eye, 

 and there is a white mark on the lower eyelid ; the lores are black ; 

 the under plumage is of a lighter plumbeous than that of the upper; 

 the chin, middle of the throat and of the breast intermixed with 

 white, center of abdomen white ; the two middle tail-feathers, and 

 the outer webs of the others, are like the back in color ; the inner 

 webs are blackish slate-color ; on the inner web of the outer tail- 

 feather, at the end, is a spot of white ; on the next feather is a 

 smaller one, and the next two have only a terminal edging of white ; 

 the middle and greater wing-coverts have their outer webs of the 

 color of the back, and their inner webs black ; they end conspicu- 

 ously with white, forming two bars across the wings ; quills with 

 their outer webs like the back, and their inner blackish slate-color ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillars white ; upper mandible black, the 

 under light horn-color ; tarsi and toes light brown. 



Length (skin), 5} in. ; wing, 2 T \ ; tail, 2 \ ; tarsus, f ; bill from 

 front, T V 



The female is above of a dark greenish olive ; it has black lores, 

 with a white stripe over the eye and on the lower eyelid, just as in 

 the male ; below it is of a much lighter or grayish-olive, the chin, 

 middle of the throat and of the breast mixed with pale yellowish- 

 white, the middle of the abdomen is pale yellow ; the ends of the 

 wing-coverts, the under wing-coverts, and the axillars, are white, 

 with just a tinge of yellow ; the spots at the ends of the tail-feathers, 

 as in the male, but less distinct ; bill and feet of the same color as 

 those of the male. 



Types in National Museum, Washington. 



3. Vircosylvia cah'dris, var. Dominicana. 

 [Dominica Catalogue, p. 55.] 



