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Another winter resident species, Of which Mr. Smith sent in a large 

 series of specimens, collected between October 7 and November 22, 

 indicating its relative abundance during that period. According to 

 the experience of the writer, however, it is not so abundant as some of 

 the other warblers, although found from sea-level up to 5,000 feet. 

 As a rule it keeps high up in the tree-tops. Specimens were taken in 

 September (September 29), October, and February 28, the example 

 shot at -the last date just commencing the prenuptial moult, a few new 

 black feathers coming in. 



423. Dendroica castanea (Wilson). 



Dendroica caitaneo Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, igoo, 177 (Bonda). 



Allen, Auk, XVII, 1900, 367 (Bonda). — Cooke, Bull. Biol. Survey, No. 



18, 1904, 74 (Bonda, ex Allen). 



Four specimens : Don Diego. 



No. 44,579, Collection Carnegie Museum (January 29) and No. 

 63,500, Collection Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 

 (taken on the same date) are in a very unusual plumage, not to be 

 matched in an extensive series of breeding and migrant examples. 

 The pileum and back are warbler green, broadly streaked with black, 

 with the concealed bases of some of the crown-feathers chestnut. 

 There is no chestnut below, except on the flanks, the breast being 

 merely buffy, nor is there any sign of moult. This plumage appears 

 to be that of the adult male in winter. No. 44,489 (January 20), 

 however, is much worn, the back unstreaked, and has a few chestnut 

 feathers on the crown. A female is dated February 5. 



The four specimens taken were the only ones seen of this winter 

 resident species. It keeps high up in the trees, and may be more 

 abundant than it appears. October 27 was the date of Mr. Smith's 

 only specimen. 



424. Dendroica fusca (Miiller). 



Dendroica blackburnia Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1900, 178 

 (Las Nubes and Valparaiso). — Allen, Auk, XVII, 1900, 367 (Las Nubes 

 and Valparaiso). — Cooke, Bull. Biol. Survey, No. 18, 1904, 80 (Las Nubes 

 and Valparaiso, ex Allen). 



Six specimens: Las Nubes, Las Taguas, Cincinnati, Pueblo Viejo, 

 and Chirua. 

 No. 41,700 (February 5) is undergoing prenuptial moult, assuming 



