DENDROICA. 



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Deiidroica domiiiica. 



Motacilla duminicn, L. Syst. Nat. 12th ed. 1766, 334 (Ficediiln tlomlin'ca 



cinerea, Bkish. Ill, 520, pi. 27, fig. 3.) — Dendroira dmninira, Haikd. 

 Motacilla supercilivsa, BouDiUHT, Tableau PI. enl. 686, Jig. 1, 178:5. — 



Dendroica superciliosa, Uaikd, Birds N. Am. 18.')8, 289. — S<aATEK, 



P. Z. S. 18!J9 363 (Xalapa) ; 373 (Oaxaoa) ; 1861 (Jamaica); 



1863, 368 (Mexico).— III. Catal. 1861, 33, no. 2(H).— Soi-ATBi! & 

 ^ Salvin, Ibis, 1860, 274 (Dueiias, Ouat., Sept.).— Makch, Pr. A. N. 



Bo. 1863, 293 (Jamaica).— Gdmulacu, Cab. Jour. 1861, 326 (Cuba ; 



very common). 

 Motnrillajlnvicottis, Gmbun, S. N. 1, 1788, 9.')9.— .<?///(•»«/. Lath. ; Wils. 



II, pi. xii, fig. 6.— ? ViEiLLOT, Encycl. Mali. II, 1823, 453. 

 Motacilla vensilis, Gmrlin, S. N. 1, 1788, 9(iO. — Sylvia p. Lath. ; ViKir.L. 



II, pi. 72 (St. Domingo).— Bon. ; Aud. Orn. Biog. I, pi. 85 ; Norr. ; 



D'Orii. Sagra'H Cuba, Ois. 1840, 65.— .S///ciV«/« pens. Rich. ; Bon. ; 



/vui). B. A. II, pi. 79, — GoHHB, Birds Jam. 1847, 156 (Jamaica). — 



lihimanphiis pens. Cab. Jour. Ill, 474 (Cuba). 

 Otuku Localities : Cordova, Sclater, P. Z. 8. 1856, 291 ; St. Domingo, 



Sallio, p. Z. S. 1857, 231 ; Jamaica, Gossb, Birds Jam. 156. 



- — , lltth. Eastern province of U. S., north to Washington and Cleveland ; in 

 ■P , (rinter abundant in Cuba ; St. Domingo and Jamaica ; Mexico (as far north 

 as Colima ou west coast) and Guatemala. Resident in Jamaica ? 



Specimens from the West Int'Ios exhibit the same variations in 

 the extent of black on the forehead, and in tlie color of the super- 

 ciliary stripe, as North American. The portion of this stripe 

 luitcrior to the eye is sometimes white, sonietimos bright yellow, 

 iiml sometimes a mixture of the two ; but I am entirely unable to 

 ijase a second species upon such diversities. All I have seen from 

 Mexico and Guatemala have this stripe white. There is a great 

 variation in the length of the bills in different specime'^s. 



Tiiere can be no doubt that t'-'« is the MolaciUa dominica oi' 

 Linnicus. 



This species, although not belonging to either the middle or 

 western provinces of North America, was collected at Colima (west 

 coast of Mexico), by Mr. Xantus. This is an interesting fact, but 

 paralleled by the occurrence at Manzanillo, Mex. (the seaport of 

 Ci)lima), of Larus atricilla and Sterna anlillaruni (/rena(a), two 

 species not known farther north on the Pacific coast, although 

 occurring along the whole eastern coast of the United States. A 

 i^peciinen, killed June 4, by Mr. March, in Jamaica, would indicate 

 that it breeds in that island, as well perhaps as in others of the 

 West IiidioH. 



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