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Camping near the top of the Soufriére, I found the bird common 
about the mountain streams. Near the base of the huge mass of 
denuded lava which forms the summit of this voleano, an albino 
female was taken. The head and neck are white, a series of white 
blotches extend down the back and sides while the rest of the plumage 
is the normal olive-grey. 
.41. DENDROICA RUFICAPILLA RUFICAPILLA (Gmelin). 
Oiseau Jaune. 
A common species in the lowlands. Fifteen specimens from 
immediate neighborhood of Goyave, Ste. Rose, and Ste. Claude taken 
on various days throughout July and August. 
Clark (Proc. Bost. soc. nat. hist., 1905, 32, p. 294) says “The sub- 
species of this form, D. r. ruficapilla (Guadeloupe and Dominica), 
D. r. rufiverter (Cozumel Island), D. r. flavida (St. Andrew’s) and 
D. r. rufopileata (Curagao) appear all to fall within the range of indi- 
vidual variation, if we can judge from the great differences exhibited 
by a series of sixteen specimens of the closely related D.capitalis 
of Barbados. The only specimen from Cozumel Island which I 
have been able to examine, as well as three specimens from Dominica 
*** are inseparable from Grenadine examples.’”’ An examination 
of a large series of this species including the specimens taken by 
Mr. Clark as well as those collected by myself shows that the dis- 
tinguishing characters of the described races have no more value than 
Clark gave them. It is clear that only one form should be recognized. 
Among the mangroves, about the plantations and ascending the 
sparsely wooded hills this bird is common. Ober says of it (Proc. 
U.S. N. M., 1878, 1, p. 453) “with the two sparrows the bird is most 
commonly met with in the gardens and coffee plantations. In the 
latter, I find it chiefly in the pois douce trees, which, originally planted 
as wind-breaks for the coffee plants’ protection, seam the hills all 
around in long rows.”” About Goyave and Ste. Rose I found it most 
common in the small plantations bordering the mangroves. It 
sometimes occurs in numbers upon the high uplands, but I have never 
taken it higher than Ste. Claude some two thousand feet above the 
sea. Its habits, nesting, and song are all very much like those of the 
Yellow Warbler (D. aestiva aestiva) but unlike this species it seems 
