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middle wing-coverts broadly tipped with dull yellowish olive-green; 

 tail as in adult male, but yellow of inner webs of rectrices paler and 

 more restricted; sides of head (including lores and orbital ring) and 

 under parts pale yellow (straw yellow or naples yellow), tinged on sides 

 with olive-green, the lower abdomen paler, sometimes nearly white 

 bill and feet as in adult male, but mandible paler and more brownish 

 length (skins), 112-130 (119. T); wing, 59-62 (60.4); tail, 47-50 (48.4) 

 exposed culmen, 10.5-11 (10.9); tarsus, 20-22 (21.2); middle toe, 11- 

 13 (12).' 



[Many adult females of this form have the yellow of under parts 

 partly replaced by white, and the olive-green of upper parts partly 

 replaced by gray, especially on sides of head and neck, hindneck, and 

 scapulars. There is nothing to indicate that these are younger birds, 

 and I believe that the variation is simply an individual one.] 



Island of Jamaica, Greater Antilles; island of Haiti? 



[Moiacilla] petechia LiKtixvs, Syst. Nat, ed. 12, 1766, 334 (based on The Yellow 



Red-poll, Avicula lutea vertice rubro, Edwards, Gleanings Nat. Hist., v, 99, pi. 



256, fig. 1).— Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 983. 

 Moladlla petechia Lesson, Traits d'Orn., i, 1831, 418. 

 \_Sylma'\ petechia Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 535. 

 Sylvia petechia Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept., ii, 1807, 32, pi. 91; Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. 



Nat. xi, 1817, 228; Enc. M6th. ii, 1823, 443. 

 M\niotilta\ petechia Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1848, 196. 

 [MniotiUa'] petechia Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 241, no. 3496. 

 Dendreeca petechia Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1861, 71 (Jamaica); Cat. Am. 



Birds, 1862, 32, part (Jamaica).— CouES, Birds Col. Val., 1878, 255, footnote 



(synonymy).— Cory, Birds Bahama I., 1880, 57.— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 



Mus., X, 1885, 277, 644 (excl. loc. Bahamas). 

 [Dendraca} petechia Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 9, part.— Cory, 



List Birds W. I., 1885, 8. 

 DlendrcecaJ petechia Newton (A. and E. ), Handb. Jamaica, 1881, 106. 

 Dendroica petechia March, Proc' Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 292 (Jamaica).— 



Baird, Review Am. Birds, 1865, 199 (Jamaica).— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 29, 



part (Jamaica); Birds W. I., 1889, 43, part; Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 17, 118, 



part (Jamaica). 

 D[endroica'\ petechia Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 495, part (Jamaica). 

 [Dendroica petechia] var. petechia Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 



Birds, i, 1874, 217, part (.Jamaica; Haiti?). 

 IDendroica petechial a. petechia Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 349. 

 Sylvicola xstiva (not Motacilla .-estiva Gmelin) Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 157. 

 [Dendroeca petechia'] e. jamaicensis Sundkvall, Ofv. k. Vet.-Akad. Forh. Stockh., 



xxvi, 1870, 608 (monogr.). 

 (?) [Motaeilla] albicoUis Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1788, 983 (Santo Domingo; 



based on Le Piguier de S. Domingue, Ficedula dominicensis Brisson, Orn., iii, 



494, pi. 26, fig. 5) . 

 (?) [Sylvia] albicoUis Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 535. 

 (?) Sylvia albicolis Vibillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xi, 1817, 221. 



' Six specimens, from Jamaica. 



