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D[mdroica] mstiva Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 494, part (Alaska). 



Bendroeca sestiva Brown, Ibis, 1868, 420 (Vancouver I.). — Nelson, Cruise "Cor- 

 win" in 1881 (1883), 63 (Norton and Kotzebue sounds, Alaska) .—Bean, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1882, 147 (Kadiak).— Beldino, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus.jV, 1883, 536 (La Paz, Lower California, winter). — McLenbgan, Cruise 

 "Corwin," 1884, 114 (Kowak E. and Hotham Inlet, Alaska, breeding). 



DENDROICA PETECHIA PETECHIA (Linnseus). 

 JAMAICAN YELLOW WARBLER. 



Similar to D. cestiva cestiva, but larger, especiallj' the bill and feet; 

 wing more rounded, the outermost (ninth) primary decidedly shorter 

 than sixth, instead of longer; lateral rectiices with more of dusky at 

 tips and along outer side of shaft; yellow of under parts averaging 

 deeper or richer. 



Adult male.- -Above bright yellowish olive-green (about the same as 

 in D. cestiva cestiva), the forehead and crown more yellowish or (usu- 

 ally?) more or less tinged (often strongly so) with orange-ochraceous, 

 but never with a sharply defined patch of this color; rump slightly 

 more yellowish than back; greater wing-co\erts and remiges dull 

 slate-blackish, edged with yellowish olive-green, these edgings broader 

 and decidedl}' yellow on greater coverts and tertials; middle wing-cov- 

 erts broadly tipped with yellow; middle pair of rectrices and outer 

 webs of other rectrices dusky olive, the outermost narrowly' edged 

 with yellow; inner webs of three outer rectrices yellow to the shaft, 

 the next yellow very nearly to the shaft, the fifth with marginal half 

 or more yellow — those with most yellow having a wedge-shaped termi- 

 nal space of dusky; sides of head (including lores and superciliary 

 region) and entire under parts rich lemon or gamboge yellow, the chest 

 and sides streaked with cinnamon-rufous or light reddish chestnut; 

 maxilla dusky with paler tomia; mandible more grayish (pale bluish 

 gray in life?); iris brown; legs and feet brownish (in dried skins); 

 length (skins), 110-127 (118.5); wing, 64-66 (65); tail, 48-63 (50.3); 

 exposed culmen, 9-11 (10.6); tarsus, 20-22 (20.5); middle toe, 11-12 

 (11.1).' 



Adult female. — Above (including pileum) dull yellowish olive- 

 green, more or less tinged with gray, especially on back and scapu- 

 lars; greater wing-coverts and remiges grayish duskj' with light 

 jellowish olive-green or 3'ellowish gray edgings, these broadest on 

 greater coverts and tei',tia]s, narrower on secondaries and primaries; 



'Six specimens, from Jamaica. A single adult male from Haiti measures as fol- 

 lows: Wing, 63; tail, 46; exposed culmen, 11; tarsus, 21; middle toe, 12. In colora- 

 tion this Haitian specimen agrees in the main very closely with Jamaican examples, 

 but has the forehead and crown olive-}'ellow with a mere trace of orange-ochraceous, 

 and the dusky color of the remiges and middle rectrices is not so dark. It is possible 

 that a series from Haiti might show constant differences, thus requiring separation 

 of the birds from that island from those of Jamaica. 



