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(?) [Motacilla] chloroleuca Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1788, 984 (Santo Domingo; 



baaed on Petit Figuier de S. Domingue, Mcedula dominicensis minor Brisson, 



Orn., iii, 496, pi. 26, flg. 2). 

 (?) [Sylvia] chloroleuca Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 984. 

 (?) Sylvia chloroleuca Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., x, 1817, 704. — Vieillot, Nouv. 



Diet. d'Hist. Nat, xi, 1817, 195. 



DENDROICA PETECHIA AURICAPILLA Ridgway. 

 GRAND CAYMAN YEILOW WARBLER. 



Similar to D. p. petechia^ but with decidedly shorter wing and larger 

 bill and feet. (Adult female sometimes partly gray above and whitish 

 below, as in D. p. petechia.) 



Admit ma^e.— Length (skins), 109-126 (119.9); wing, 58-64 (61.4); 

 tail, 48.5-51 (49.6); exposed culmen, 11-11.5(11.1); tarsus, 20-22 (21); 

 middle toe, 11-12 (11.4).^ 



Adult female.— \jiiVig\h. (skins), 110-120 (116.6); wing, 59-61 (60); 

 tail, 46-49 (47); exposed culmen, 11; tarsus, 20-21 (20.6); middle toe, 

 11-12 (11.3).' 



Island of Grand Cayman, Caribbean Sea (south of Cuba). 



Dendroica petechia gundlachi (not Dendroica gundlachi Baird) Cory, Auk, iii, 



1886, 501 (Grand Cayman). 

 Dendroica auricapilla Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, aig. 36, Aug. 6, 1888, 



572 (Grand Cayman, Greater Antilles; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus. ; ex Townsend, 



manuscript). 

 Dendroica aurocapilla Ooey, Auk, vi, 1889, 31 (Grand Cayman); Birds W. I., 



1889, 287 (Grand Cayman); Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 18, 118, 129, 155 (Grand 



Cayman). 



DENDROICA PETECHIA FLAVICEPS Chapman. 

 BAHABLA YELLOW WARBLER, 



Similar to D. p. petechia, but yellow of under parts more intense, 

 and chestnut streaks on chest and sides heavier or more numerous; 

 crown more rarely tinged with ochraceous or tawny. (Intermediate 

 in coloration between D. p. petechia and D. p. hartholemdca, but 

 much nearer the latter, from which some specimens are hardly distin- 

 guishable. The adult female is sometimes partly gray above and 

 whitish below, as in the former.) 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 112-123 (118.7); wing, 60-64 (61); 

 tail, 44-50 (47.9); exposed culmen, 11-12 (11); tarsus, 20-22 (20.6); 

 middle toe, 11-13(11.8).' 



'Nine specimens. ' Three specimens. 'Twenty specimens. 



