BIRDS OF l^ORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 521 



Adult female.— Ijength (skins), 112-125 (119.7); wing, 56-62 (r.s.T); 

 tail, 44-48 (46.4); exposed culmen, 10-11 (10.8); tarsus, 20-22 (21); 

 middle toe, 11.^ 



Island of Cuba, Greatei" Antilles. 



Sylvia sestiva (not Motacilla sestiva Gmelin) Lembeye, Aves de la Isla de Cuba, 



1850, 31 (not pi. 6, fig. 3). 

 Rhimamphm lestivus Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1855, 472 (Cuba); I860, 326 



(do.). — GuNDLACH, Journ. fur Orn., 1861, 407 (Cuba). 

 Dendroica albicoUis (not Motacilla albicollis Gmelin) Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Soi. 



Phila.,1860, 192 (Cuba).— Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., vii, 1860,264 (Cuba; 



crit.). — Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 326 (Cuba). — Albrecht, Journ. 



fiir Orn., 1861, 205 (Cuba). 

 Syli/icola petechia (not Motacilla petechia Linnaeus) Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. 



Hist., vii, 1860, 307 (Cuba). 

 Dendroica petechia Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., iv, 1892, 310 (Casilda, s. 



Cuba; crit.). 

 Dendroica gundlachi Baied, Review Am. Birds, Apr., 1865, 197 (Cuba; loU. 



U. S. Nat. Mus.).— Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1872, 414 (Cuba). 

 Dendrmca gundlachi Gundlach, Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, i, 1865, 234. — Shajipe, 



Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 278, part (Cuba) . 

 \_Mniotilta} gundlachi Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 241, no. 3495. 

 [Dendroica petechia^ var. gundlachi Baied, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. .\m. 



Birds, i, 1874, 216, part (Cuba). 

 Dendraca petechia gundlachi CouES, Birds Col. Val., 1878, 255, footnote, part (Cuba). 

 [Dendrcecal petechia gundlachi Cory, List Birds W. I., 1885, 8, part (Cuba). 

 Dendrmca petechia gundlachi Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 30, part (Cuba); Birds A\'. I., 



1«89, 44; Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 17, 118, part (Cuba; Isle of Pines). 

 [Dendroica petechia^ fi. gundlachi Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 



349, part (Cuba). 

 D[endroica'\ petechia gundlachi Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. , x, Aug. 6, _] 888, 



573, In text, part (Cuba) . 

 [Dendroica petechia'] d. ciihana Sundevall, Ofv. k. Vet.-Akad. Forh. Stockh., 



xxvi, 1870, 608 (monogr.). 



DENDROICA PETECHIA AUREOLA (Gould). 

 GALAPAGOS YELLOW WARBLER. 



Similar to D. p. petechia, but olive-green of upper parts much 

 darker, and adult male with pileum always rufous-chestnut, forming a 

 well-defined cap, sharply defined laterally against the yellow of the 

 superciliary region. 



Adult male. — Pileum uniform chestnut-rufous, sharply defined lat- 

 erally; rest of upper parts plain deep yellowish olive-green, very 

 slightly, if at all, more yellowish on rump, the upper tail-coverts even 

 darker than back; wings (except lesser coverts) dusky, the middle coverts 

 broadly tipped with yellow, the greater coverts and remiges edged with 

 yellow, these edgings broader and clearer yellow on greater coverts 

 and tertials, narrower and more or less tinged with olive-green on 

 secondaries and primaries; tail dusky, the four middle rectrices inclin- 

 ing to dark olive-green, the rest with inner webs yellow, except at 



•Eight specimens. 



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