212 NORTH AMERICA:>r IflUDS. 



p. oarbonata. No white piitclios on tail-t'oailiiTs. 



No clifstiiut about lu'ail. Two bands on the winp, llic anterior one 

 white, the (wsterior yellow. Outer web of hiteral tail-leather wliili.sh. 



Ferissoglossa tigrina, ]>aiki). 



CAFE HAT WABBLEB. 



Mulncilhi tigrina, OMr.t.rx, Syn. Nat. I, 1788, !>85. Sijlria tiij. Lath. Pnidroim liij. IJAiitn, 

 Hhd.s N. Am. 18ri8, 280. — S(l,.vn;ii, fatal. 18(il, :i:l, nn. I!t8 ; P. Z. S. IStil, 71 

 (Jaiiuiiea, April). — Maki ll, I'r. An. ise. 18(ia, •_'!•:( (.lainaii'a ; lirced.s). — A. & K. Nkw- 

 ToN, Ibis, IS;')!*, Mi (St. ("roi.x. Notrs on anatomy of toii;,'iic). — (Jrxni.Aeii, Cab. 

 .lour. 18til, y'2G (Cuba ; not rare). — SamI'KI.s, •J4(I. /'< rixKixjiossii tiijrivti, Uaikd, Kev. 

 Am. Birds, 1804, 181. Si/lvia vuin'liinti, Wilson, Am. Urn. Yl, 1812, 9i>, jd. liv, 

 fig. 3. — Hon. ; Nfir. ; At'D. Oru. IHog. V, jd. cecfxiv. — D'Ouii. La Sagra's Cub. 

 1840, 70, pi. .\. Si/lcivola luni: Jaku., Bos., Am. Binls Ain. II, pi. Ixxxv. Ccrlhi- 

 Ola mar. (Sossk, Birds Jam. 1847, 81. — In. lUust. lihimamphus mar. Cah. Jour. 

 Ill, 1855, 474 ^Cuba.) 



Sp. Char. Bill very aente, conioal, aiul decidedly eurved. Rill and feet black. II])pcr 

 part of head dull black, some of the feather.s liiintly inari;ine<l with li<j;ht yello\vish-l>rown. 

 Collar .scarcely meeting behind ; rump and under parts jienerally rich yellow. Throat, fore- 

 part of lireast, and sides, streaked with bhu'k. Abdomen and lower tail-coverts j)nle yel- 

 low, brighter about the vent. Dar-coverts light reddish-chestnut. Back part of a yellow 

 line from nostrils over the eye <d' this same color ; chin and throat tinged also with it.. A 

 black line from eonnnissm'c through the eye, and running into the chestnut of the ear- 

 coverts. Back, .shoulder, edges of the wing and tail, ycllowi.sli-(dive ; the former spotted 

 with dusky. One row of small coverts, and outer ba.scs of the secondary coverts, form a 

 large patch of white, tinged with jjalc yellow. Tcrtials rather broadly cdge(l with brown- 

 ish-white. Quills ami tail dark brown, the three outer lealhcrs of the latter largely marked 

 with white on the inner web; edge of the outer wel) of the outer feathers while, more 

 perceptible towards the base. Length, ").'_'.") ; wing, 'l.M ; tail, 2.15. 



Female. Above olivaceous-ash, most yellowish on nnn]) ; no black nor chestnut on 

 head. Wing-coverts inconspicuously eilgcd with whitish. Tail-spots vciy inconspicuous. 

 Beneath didl white tinged with yellowish on the breast, and streaked a.s in the mali', 

 but witli dusky grayish instead of black. 



IlAn. Eastern Province of I'liited States, north to Lake Wimiipi>g and Moos(> Kactory ; 

 all the West Indies to St. Croix. Breeds in Jamaica. .Not recorded from Mexico or Cen- 

 tral America. 



Tliu chostnut iibout llic Iicnd in adult males varies in amount with tlio 

 iiRliviihial; suiuotinios (a.s in 20,0;'):?, Afay, M<io,se Factory, II udsuns Hay Ter- 

 ritory) tliero is ai> oblong s))ot oi' cliestiiut in the middle of the crown, but 

 generally tliis ia absent. Very fretiuently the chestnut tinges the throat. All 

 variations in tiiese resjtects api)ear, however, to be individutil, iind not dts- 

 pendent at idl on locality. West Indian specimens a])pear to be abse.ately 

 identicid witli tlio.se from Xorlli America. 



Aut iiial specimens are browner, the chestiuit markings much obscm-ed. 



ir.u..Ts. Tiiis sotnewhat rare species, so far as its history and dislrilmtion 

 are known with certainty, is migratory in the ]»rinciiial portions of the I'nited 



