I"-'-' DENDRCECA. 405 



Extralimital Range. North Brazil, Venezuela, Ecuador, 

 Colombia, Central America, and the whole of North America. 



Habits. Mr. J. J. Quelch (Timehri (2) v. p. 79), writing on the 

 Native Birds of Georgetown, remarks : — " One of the commonest 

 city birds is a typical representative of the American Warblers. 

 This is the Yellow Summer-bird of the United States (Dendroeca 

 cestiva), known also as the Golden Warbler, and locally called 

 Canary. They are migrants in the United States, but certain it is 

 that they are to be found about Georgetown all the year round, 

 among the low bushes and high trees. Here they are shy birds, 

 and are with difficulty snared by those who make a practice of 

 catjing the song birds." 



Mr. Quelch (op. cit. x. p. 261), writing on the Migratory Birds 

 in British Guiana, remarks : — " Many of our resident species 

 occur as migrants in the United States, ranging to Texas and 

 Florida, and even further north ; but it is at present impossible to 

 say definitely how far south these migrants travel. The American 

 Warblers are specially to be noted. In the case of one of these 

 (Dendrcsca cestiva), the Summer Yellow-bird of the United States, 

 locally passing under the general name of ' Canary,' the 

 individuals are certainly much more numerous here during the 

 times of migration, most probably indicaiing that birds from the 

 northern districts had arrived. This species occurs commonly 

 along the coast, being very plentiful in Georgetown during the 

 autumn and winter months ; but it may well be that other species 

 occur in the forest districts and on the open plains and mountains 

 of the interior." 



604. Dendrceca breviunguis. 



Blackpoll Waeblee. 



Alauda {Anthus) Ireviunguis Spix, Av. Bras. i. p. 75, tab. Ixxvi-vii. 

 fig. 1, 1824 (Para). 



Dendrcpca striata Salvin (nee Forst), Ibis, 1885, p. 202 (Roraima, 

 3500 ft.); Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. x. pp. 325, 650, 1885 

 (Roraima, November, January) ; Quelch, Timehri (2) x. p. 261, 

 1896 (Roraima) ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 355, 

 no. 3631, 1912. 



Adult female. Crown of head olive tinged with yellow ; back, 

 lesser upper wing-coverts, scapulars, and outer aspect of flight- 

 quills >iniil;ir, but rather darker and with a few dark shaft-lines to 



