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KEVIEW OP AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[part I, 



Yellow of under parts confined to jugnlum ; rest of 

 under parts white ; the sides streaked with 

 black gracice. 



Yellow of under parts extending to crissum. Sides 



scarcely streaked ...... adelaidm. 



(36,988.) Type. (36,993.) Iris, bill, and feet black ; soles yellow. 



Dendroica adelaidae. 



Dendroica adelaidcE, Baibd. 

 Hab. Porto Eico. 



(No. 36,486.) Entire upper parts, and sides of neck as far forward as the 

 eyes, uniform ash gray. Beneath, including edge of bend of wing, bright 

 yellow ; lining of wings, axillars, and crissum, white. A broad yellow line 

 from bill to eye, with the eyelids yellow ; forehead and sides of vertex black. 

 A black loral line. Wings with two conspicuous white bands ; the quills 

 and tail feathers blaekish, edged externally with whitish, internally with 

 purer white. Three lateral tail feathers with a quadrate terminal white 

 patch on inner web. Bill black. Legs pale yellowish. 



Total length, 4.70 (estimated) ; wing, 2.10 ; tail, 2.05 ; lateral feather .20 

 shorter than middle ; difference of longest primary and 9th, .35 ; length of 

 bill from forehead, .50, from nostril, 30 ; along gape, .55 ; tarsus, .65 ; middle 

 toe and claw, .51 ; claw alone, .17 ; hind toe and claw, .39 ; claw alone, .18. 



The ashy feathers of forehead have a central streak of black, seen 

 also to less extent in the crown. The cheeks below and behind the 

 eye are ashy like the neck above. There is a slight appearance of a 

 black line or patch separating the yellow and ashy on the side of the 

 neck, and of a central blackish streak in the yellow feathers of the 

 side of the breast. The sides of body are more olivaceous, with 

 very obsolete indications of dusky streaks. The yellow of belly 

 becomes paler towards the anus, and passes into the white of crissum 

 and tibiie. The wings and tail are almost black ; the edging of the 

 secondaries is more olivaceous, of the primaries more whitish, espe- 

 cially towards the end. The white internal edging is very distinct. 

 The anterior border of the white caudal patch is straight and per- 



