DfiNDP.OICA. 



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ronclip.s the sliaft on the outer three feathers alone, and in fact o\ pn 

 licre tlio upper surface shows a slight suffusion of the color of the 

 ^liiift uloiig its inner edge. The isolation on the fourth feather, how- 

 ever, amounts to two or three hund'jdths of an neh, and on the 

 lifih to half the web. In most specimens, howo\ er, there is more 

 or less hrown along the inside of all the shafts. In high plumaged 

 males of Bpstiva the yellow reaches the shaft in the outer five feathers, 

 the fifth exhibiting a slight suffusion only in its terminal half; some- 

 times, however, this suffusion is seen on the fourth. There is con- 

 Hidurably less yellow on the inner edges of the quills than in antiva 

 ill wliich the yellow reaches the shaft near the base. 



The orange-brown tinge to the whole top of the head is an im- 

 portant character of petechia, even though sometimes wanting or 

 oKscured. Not unfrequently, however, traces of the same are seen in 

 seatica; and one specimen (4,300, Louisiana) has as much reddish 

 in the crown as many males of petechia. 



I liave not noticed, in petechia, the obscure brownish streaks seen 

 on the backs of high plumaged specimens of sestica ; and the .*ump 

 is more uniformly greenish-olive, instead of having the feathers 

 much edged with yellow. 



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Dendroica 



fAfotaciUa ruficapilln, Qmelik, S. N. I, 1788, 971 (based on Ficedula 

 martinicana, Brisson, III, 490, pi. xxii, fig. 4, Martinique). 



fChloris erithackorides, FEUiLLfe, Jour. Obs. Pliys. Ill, 413. 



9Demlroica astiva, Newton, Ibis, I, 1859, 143 (St. Croix). 



f Dendroica petechia, Cassin, Pr. A. N. Sc. 1860, 192, 376 (St. Thomas). 

 —? Sylvia petechia, Vieill. Oia. Am. Sept. II, 1807, 32, pi. 91 ("U. 

 States") 



I have little doubt that the Golden Warblers of St. Croix and St. 

 Thomas are specifically different from those inhabiting Janmica 

 and Cuba respectively, and would not be much surprised to lind 

 that each of the first-mentioned islands, as well as others of the 

 West Indian group, possessi d a Golden Warbler peculiar to itself. 







