292 CHARACTERS OF DENDRCECA GRACLE 



WITH the name of this pretty species, the list of Eastern- 

 Province Warblers which reach westward to the con- 

 fines of the Colorado Basin closes. The bird was not long 

 since added to the fauna of Kansas by Prof. F. H. Snow, who 

 has been foremost in filling out the recognized category of the 

 birds of that State 5 and about the same time, Mr. H. \V. Hen- 

 shaw found the Black-and-yellow Warbler near Denver, Colo- 

 rado, where, on the 17th of May, 1873, he picked a male in full 

 plumage out of a flock of Audubon's Warblers, in the company 

 of which it was migrating. The occurrence may have been 

 wholly fortuitous, as Mr. Henshaw has surmised j but we have 

 learned of the appearance of so many Eastern birds along the 

 foot-hills of the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, that we should 

 be slow to deny that the present species may not pass that way 

 regularly each year. 



Grace's Warbler 



Dendroeca grncise 



a. grades 



Dendroica grade, Coues, MSS. Sd. Rev. AB. 1865, 210 (Fort Whipple, Ariz.). Coop. 



B. Cal. i 1870, 563, fig Eidgw. Am. Nat. vii. 1873, 608. B. B. A E. NAB. i. 1874, 243, 



pL 14, f. W.-Hensh. List B. Ariz. 1875, 156. Henth. Zool. Expl. W. 100 Mend. 1876, 197. 

 Dendrceca gracite, Coues, Pr. Phila. Acad. xviii. 1866, 67. Sund. Oefr. K. Vet.-Akad. Forh. 



1869, 611. Coop. Am. Nat. iii. 1869, 479.-Coue, Key, 1872, 103.? Salv. Ibis, iii. 3d ser. 



1873,428 (Guatemala decora?). 

 Dendraca gracife, Elliot, Illnst. BNA. i. pi. vi. 

 Mniotilta gracise, Giebel, Nomencl. Av. 1875, 603. 



6. decora 

 Dendroica gracise var. decora, Ridgw. Am. Nat. vii. 1873, 608. B. B. rf E. NAB. i. 1874, 220. 



Cn. SP. $ 9 Cceruleo-cinerea, dorso et vertice nigro notatis, 

 loris nigris, super ciliis et macula suboculari, cum guld et pectorc, 

 flavis; abdomine crissoque albis, lateribus corporis et colli nigro 

 strlatis ; alls albo bifasciatis, rectricibus lateralibus magnd ex 

 parte albis ; rostro pedibusque nigris. 



$ , adult : Entire upper parts ashy-gray, with a slaty-blue tinge ; the 

 middle of the back streaked with black, the upper tail-coverts less conspic- 

 uously so marked ; the crown with crowded black arrow-heads, especially 

 anteriorly and laterally, the tendency of these markings being to form a line 

 along the side of the crown, meeting its fellow on the forehead. A broad 

 superciliary line of yellow, confluent with its fellow on the extreme front, 

 changing to white behind the eye. Lores blackish ; sides of head otherwise 

 like the back, enclosing a crescendo yellow spot below the eye ; edges of eye- 

 lids yellow. Chin, throat, and fore breast bright yellow, bordered with 

 blackish streaks ; the yellow of the throat separate from that under the eye 

 or on the lores. Under parts from the breast white, the sides shaded with 



