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[Motadlla] bananivora Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i, pt. ii, 1788, 951 (St. Domingo; based 



on Bananiste Buffon, Hist. Nat. Ois., v, 332; Banana Warbler 'La.tham, Synop. 



Birds, ii, pt. ii, 498). 

 Certhiola bananivora Bry.^nt, Proc. Boat. Soc. N. H. , xi, 1865, 95 (Santo Domingo).— 



EiDGwAY, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 30 (synonymy).— Cory, Birds 



Haiti and San Dom., 1885, 41, pi. [21] fig. 1; List Birds W. I., 1885, 9; Auk, 



iii, 1886, 49; Birds W. I., 1889, 63.— Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 



40 (Samana, Santo Domingo). 

 [Certhiolal bananivoraBAiRD, Am. Nat., vii, 1873,611 (monogr.); in Baird, Brewer, 



and Ridgway's Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 427. 

 Clerthwla] bananivora Kidgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 28 (diagnosis). 

 Catreba bananivora Cory, Auk, viii, Jan., 1891, 38; Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 17, 116, 



131.— Chbeeie, Contr. Orn. San Dom., 1896, 12. 

 Certhiola chmse Hartlaub, Naumannia, ii, Heft. 2, 1852, 56 [nomen nudum; 



ex Herz von Wurtemburg, manuscript). — Finsch, Verb. k. k. zool.-bot. 



Gesellsch. Wien, xxi, 1871, 771 (monogr.). 

 ]_CertM6la'\ clusix Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 17. 

 Certhiola cluciie Cory, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 151. 

 Certhia luteola var. B. Bechstein, Latb. Ueb., i, 1793, 602 (based on Bananiste 



Buffon, Hist. Nat. Ois., v, 332). 

 Certhiola ? Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 233 (Haiti). 



CCEREBA PORTORICENSIS (Bryant). 

 PORTO RIOAN BANANAttinT. 



Similar to C bananivora, but larger; upper parts darker and less 

 brownish; throat clearer slate-gray; white tips to inner webs of lateral 

 rectrices much larger, and white wing-patch more truncated posteriorly. 



Admits {sexe,s alike). — Above plain sooty blackish or very dark sooty 

 olive, the rump (abruptly) canary yellow, sometimes tinged with olive; 

 a white patch at base of four or five primaries next to the outermost; 

 inner webs of lateral rectrices broadly tipped with white, this 7.6-11.4 

 in extent on outermost rectrix (on which the white sometimes involves 

 the corresponding part of outer web also); a conspicuous white super- 

 ciliary stripe, extending from near nostril to end of auricular region; 

 loral, suborbital, and auricular regions sooty blackish, like pileum, 

 etc. ; malar region (except anterior point, which is blackish), chin and 

 throat uniform clear slate-gray; chest, breast, and upper abdomen 

 lemon yellow, fading into pale ^^ellow on lower abdomen, the under 

 tail-coverts white, or yellowish white, with basal (concealed) portion 

 slate-gray; flanks yellowish gray, or light grayish olive tinged with 

 yellow; bill black, the basal portion of mandible sometimes brownish; 

 legs and feet dusky or grayish black (in dried skins). 



Young. — Above plain olive, the rump paler and tinged with brownish 

 yellow; primaries and rectrices marked with white as in adults; super- 

 ciliary stripe indistinct, mixed yellowish and light olive; malar region, 

 chin, and throat olive-yellowish indistinctly flecked with olive; rest of 

 under parts olive-yellow, brightest on chest, paler and more olivaceous 

 posteriorly, the under tail-coverts pale yellowish with basal (concealed) 

 portion deep brownish gray. 



