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pendicular to the shaft, the patch covering the posterior two-fifihs of 

 the feather; on the 3d feather it is confined to the tip. The yellow 

 stripe to the eye is continued a short distance beyond it, but becomes 

 white. 



It is quite possible that mature spring male specimens have the 

 middle of the back streaked with dusky, as in D. gracise and 

 tovmsendii. 



This interesting new species of Warbler has several peculiarities 

 of form which almost entitles it to rank as a type of a separate 

 genus. The anterior toes are very short, quite like Parula, which 

 also it resembles somewhat in coloration, but the wings are too 

 short, and the bill not conical enough. In fact, bill and feet are 

 much as in Dendroica maculosa. The wings, however, differ in 

 being much shorter, less pointed, and more rounded. The tail, also, 

 is much rounded. The nape shows quite a number of long bristles, 

 with fibrillse at the end, which I have not noticed elsewhere among 

 the Warblers. 



The relationships of the species, as far as coloration is concerned, 

 are to D. gracise, Coues, and D. dominica, as shown in the preceding 

 article. 



I have much pleasure in dedicating this new species to the 

 daughter of Mr. Robert Swift, of St. Thomas, a gentleman to whom 

 the Smithsonian Institution is indebted for a very important collec- 

 tion of the birds of St. Thomas and Porto Rico, made solely at his 

 expense, to be used in preparing the present work. 



(36,486.) Type. 



Dendroica discolor. 



Sylvia discolor, Vieill. Ois. Am. Sept. II, 1S07, 37, pi. 98. — Botf. ; Aud. Om. 

 Biog. I, pi. 14; NuTT. — Lembeye, Aves Cuba, 1850, 32, pi. vi, fig. 

 2. — Syhicola discolor, Jaed. ; Rich. ; Box. ; Add. B. A. II, pi. 97. — 

 GossE, Birds Jam. 1847, 159.— Rhimanphus discolor, Cab. Jour. Ill, 

 18.55, 474 (Cuba ; winter). — Dendroica discolor, Baied, Birds N. Am. 

 1858, 290.— ScLATEE, Catal. 1861, 33, no. 201.— Newton, Ibis, 1859, 

 144 (St. Croix).— Bkyant, Pr. Best. Soo. VII, 1859 (Bahamas).— 

 GuNDLACH, Cab. Jour. 1861, 326 (Cuba; very common) 

 Sylvia minuta, Wilsoh, III, pi. 25, fig. 4. 



Hab. Atlantic region of U. S. , north, to Massachusetts ; in winter very 



