520 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Dendraxa petechia \Sir. rit^copiHa Lawrence, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878,486 



(Barbuda; Antigua). 

 Dendrma petechia ruficapilla Ooues, Birds Col. Val., 1878, 255, footnote. 

 [Dendrceca] petechia ruficapilla Ooey, List. Birds W. I., 1885, 8. 

 Dmdroiea petechia ruficapilla Cory, Auk, iii, 1886,31 (Barbuda, Antigua; Porto 



Bico; St. Thomas); vii, 1890,374 (Anegada), 375 (Virgin Gorda); viii, 1891, 



47 (Anguilla; St. Eustatius); Birds W. I., 1889, 45; Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 



17, 118 (Porto Rico; St. Thomas; Virgin Gorda; Anegada; St. Croix; 



Anguilla; St. Bartholomew; St. Eustatius; St. Christopher; Barbuda; 



Antigua). 

 [Dendroica petechia} y. ruficapilla Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 349. 

 Dendroica ruficapUla Co-RY, Auk, viii, 1891, 48 (St. Croix; St. Christopher); Cat. 



W. I. Birds, 1892, 155 (St. Bartholomew). 

 JDendrceca ruficapilla Shakpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 275, 644.— Sclatek, 



Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1892, 499 (Anguilla). 

 Dendroica petechia (not MotaeUla petechia Linnseus) Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 



Phila., 1860, 192, 376 (St. Thomas).— Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vii, 



1884, 172 (St. Thomas). 

 DendroBca petechia Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 32, part (St. Croix).— Taylor, 



Ibis, 1864, 166, part (Porto Rico) .—Lawrence, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 



233 (Antigua), 239 (Barbuda). 

 D[endrceca'] a;sJraa Newton (A. and E.), Ibis, 1859, 143 (St. Croix). 

 Dendroica [no specific name] Baird, Review Am. Birds, 1865, 201 (St. Croix; 



St. Thomas). 



IMniotilta'] ? Baird, Gray, Hand-list,_i, 1869, 241, no. 3497. 



Dendroeca petechia portoricensis Sundevall, Ofv. k. Vet.-Ak. Forh. Stockh., xxvi, 



1870, 596 {nomen nudum!). 

 Dendroeca petechia, stirps barthelemica Sundevall, Ofv. k. Vet.-Ak. Forh. Stockh., 



xxvi, 1870, 582 (St. Bartholomew; descr. eggs; nomen nudum !) . 

 [Dendroeca petechia] a. bartholemica Sdndbvall, Ofv. k. Vet.-Akad. Forh. Stockh., 



xxvi, 1870, 607 (St. Bartholomew; coll. Stockholm Mus.). 

 [Dendroeca petechial b. crudana Sundevall, Ofv. k. Vet.-Akad. Forh. Stockh., 



xxvi, 1870, 608 (St. Croix). 



DENDROICA PETECHIA GUNDLACHI (Baird). 

 CUBAN YELLOW WARBLEK. 



Similar to D. p. petechia, but duller in color; adult male with upper 

 parts much darker olive-green, the pileum usually concolor with the 

 back, sometimes slightly more yellowish, very rarely tinged with 

 orange-ochraceous, and wing-edgings less purely yellow, adult female 

 usually duller in color than in D. p. petechia, often grayish olive- 

 green, or even largely gray, above, and dull whitish, merely tinged 

 here and there with yellow, beneath.^ 



Adult maZe.— Length (skins), 116-125 (119.1); wing, 60-66.5 (62.1); 

 tail, 46-52 (49.3); exposed culmen, 11; tarsus, 19.5-21.5 (20.5); middle 

 toe, 11-13 (11.9).' 



'The specimens examined are nearly all in worn plumage, and the differences 

 observed in these may possibly not be observable in good plumaged examples; never- 

 theless, this series of Cuban birds when compared with an equal series in same stage 

 of plumage from the island of Grand Cayman (D. p. auncapilla Ridgway, and one of 

 D. petechia petechia) shows very conspicuous and uniform differences. 



"Ten specimens. 



