BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 417 



Island of St. Croix, Greater Antilles. 



Cerlhwla flaveola (not Certhia flaveola Linnasus) Newton (A. and E. ), Ibin, 1859, 67, 

 pi. 12, fig. 3, egg (St. Croix).— ScLATKE, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 54, part (St. 

 Croix).— SuNDEv ALL, (Efv. k. Vet.-Ak. Forh. Stockh., 1869, 623, part (St. 

 Croix). 



[Certhiola'] newtoni Baird, Am. Nat., vii, Oct., 1873, 611 (St. Croix, Greater Antil- 

 les; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus. ); in Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 427.— Cory, List 

 Birds West Indies, 1885, 9. 



Certhiola newtoni Baied, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, iii, 1874, 

 508.— RiDGWAY, Proc. U. S.Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 30 (synonymy).— Sclatek, 

 Cat. Birds Br,t. Mus., xi, 1886, 43.— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 51; Birds W. I., 

 1889, 65. 



C[erthiola] newtoni Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 28 (diagnosis). 



Cosreba newtoni Cory, Auk, viii, Jan.,. 1891, 39, 48; Cat. W. I. Birds, 18it2, 17, 

 116, 132. 



Certhiola bartolemica (not Certhia barlolemica Sparrmann) Fixsch, Yerh. k. li. 

 zool.-bot. Gesellsch. Wien, 1871, 763, part (St. Croix). 



[Certhiola] bartolemica Scla-ier and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 16, part (St. 

 Croix). 



[Certhiola'] bartholemica Cory, List Birds W. I., 1885, 9, part (St. Croix). 



CCEREBA DOMINICANA (Taylor). 

 DOHINICAN BANANAaUIT. 



Similar to C. portoricensis, but throat much darker (much as in C. 

 flaveola); yellow rump-patch absent, the lower rump being merelj' 

 tinged with yellowish olive-green or olive-yellowish; white wing-spot 

 obsolete or altogether wanting; general color of upper parts not so 

 dark (on average), and white superciliary stripe nai'rower. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Upper parts plain sooty olive, nearly black on 

 pileum, the back, etc., sometimes inclining to sooty slate, the lowei' 

 rump more or less strongly tinged with j^ellowish olive-green or olive- 

 yellowish, but without a well-defined patch of this color; base of 

 primaries without any white patch, or with a very minute one, the 

 white barely showing beyond tips of primary coverts; inner webs of 

 lateral rectrices broadly tipped with white, this 6.3-10.2 long on outer- 

 most rectrix; a rather narrow superciliary stripe of white (partly 

 yellow in younger birds) extending from sides of forehead to end of 

 auricular region, the forehead also sometimes white or grayish;^ loral, 

 suborbital, and auricular regions sooty blackish; malar region, chin, 

 and throat uniform slate color; rest of under parts lemon yellow, 

 becoming paler and duller posteriorly, the under tail-coverts whitish, 

 the flanks light olive-grayish tinged with yellow; bill black; legs and 

 feet dusky horn color (in dried skins). 



Adult 7nale.—L,ength (skins), 103.6-121.4 (113.8); wing, 55.4-63.2 

 (58.9); tail, 38.1^2.7 (40.1); exposed culnien, 13-15 (14); tarsus, 

 17.3-19.8 (18.3); middle toe, 10.^13.2 (11.4).^ 



'The superciliary stripe sometimes becomes obsolete anteriorly. 

 ^ Nine specimens. 

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