DENDEOICA. 



19T 



Dendroica gundlachi. 



fMoiacilla albicoUis, G-meliit, Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 983 (Ficedula domini- 

 censis, BnissoH III, 494, tab. 26, fig. 5, St. Domingo). — Dendroica 

 albicoUis, Cassin, Pr. A. N. So. 1860, 192. — Lawkence, Ann. N. Y. 

 Lye. 1860, 18 (Cuba).— Gundlaoh, Cab. Jour. 1861, 326 (Cuba). 



? iMotacilla chloroleuca, Gmeli.^i, Syst. Nat. 1, 1788, 984 (Ficedula domini- 

 censis minor, Beisson, III, 496, tab. xxvi, fig. 2, St. Domingo). 



Sylvia cestiva, Lembete, Aves Cuba, 1850, 81, not the figure. — Rhiman- 

 phus cestivus, Cabanis, Jour. 1855, 472 (Cuba). 



Dendroica gundlachi, Baibd. 



Hab. Cuba. 



Wings rounded, rather short ; the 2d quill longest ; 3d and 4th successively 

 very little shorter ; 1st intermediate between 4th and 5th ; difference between 

 1st and 2d quill .07. (The five specimens before me all agree in these 

 characters.) 



( ■£ .) Upper parts dark yellowish-green, scarcely brighter on the rump, the 

 shaft of the feathers perhaps more dusky. Top of the head more and more 

 yellowish to the bill, especially towards the bases of the featliers ; the central 

 portions of the feathers tinged with reddish (Mr. Lawrence speaks of a male 

 bird having the whole crown of a, deep orange color). Under parts bright 

 yellow; the jngulum and sides streaked with reddish. Wing feathers dark 

 brown ; the quills and coverts edged externally with the dull olive of the 

 back, which scarcely becomes more yellow on the margin of the coverts, as 

 in petechia ; the marginal color of the primaries towards their ends passing 

 into gray ; the alula uniform brown ; the quills margined inte/nally, but not 

 sharply, with yellowish, which is almost a dull white towards the ends viewed 

 from above. The upper surfaces of the tail feathers are dark greenish-brown, 

 margined externally like the rump; the outer four feathers have rather illy 

 defined yellow patches on their inner webs towards the end, which, liowever, 

 on the outer feather does not quite reach the shaft, and is separated on the 

 others by a greater and greater interval of the ground color; the 5th has the 

 inner margin alone yellow. The bill is plumbeous, with pale edges ; the feet 

 apparently greenish. 



A female bird is quite similar, but with the yellow patches on the tail still 



