BIRDS OK NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



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[Dendroica] aureola Sclateh and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 9. 

 DIendroKa'] aureola Baied, Bkewek, and Eidgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 



217. 

 [Dendroica petechia'] ?. aureola Ridoway, Proc. U. S.Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 350. 

 Daidroica petechia . . . var. Sundevall, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1871, 124 



(Chatham, Charles, and James islands). 

 [Dendroeca petechia] t. gaUapagenm Sundevall, Ofv. k. Vet.-Ak. Forh. Stockh., 



xxvi, 1870, 608 (monogr.). 

 (?) [Dendroeca petechia] g.perumana Sundevall, Ofv. k. Vet.-Ak. Forh. Stockh., 



xxvi, 1870, 609 (Callao, w. Peru; coll. Stockholm Mus.; also, Guayaquil, 



w. Ecuador). 

 (?) [Dendroeca petechia] h. sequatorialis Sundevall, Ofv. k. Vet.-Ak. Forh. 



Stockh., xxvi, 1870, 609 (Guayaquil, w. Ecuador; coll. Stockholm Mus.; 



also, Callao, w. Peru). 



DENDROICA RUFICAPILCA RUFICAPILLA (Gmelin). 

 GTJABELOTJPE YELLOW WARBLER. 



Similar to D. petechia ia/rtholemica, but much smaller; adult male (in 

 full plumage) with crown much deeper and more extensively orange- 

 rufous or rufous-chestnut (whole pileum sometimes almost continuously 

 of this color, fading on forehead to a more orange-ochraceous hue) ; back, 

 etc., darker olive-green; adult female much smaller than that of 

 D. petechia hartholemica, but very similar in coloration, except that the 

 forehead and crown are usually tinged (often strongly so) with orange- 

 ochraceous. Still more similar in coloration to D. p>. rufivertex^ and 

 about the same size, but adult male with chestnut streaks on chest and 

 sides much narrower and adult female with forehead and crown more 

 or less strongly tinged with yellow and orange-ochraceous. 



Adult maZe.— Length (skins), 109-125 (115.1); wing, 56-60 (58.4); 

 tail, 43-48 (45.5); exposed culmen, 9.5-11 (10.4); tarsus, 18-20 (19.1); 

 middle toe, 11-12 (11.6).' 



Adult female.— Length, (skins), 110-129 (117.2); wing, 53-58 (55.3); 

 tail, 42-46 (43.6); exposed culmen, 10-11 (10.2); tarsus, 18-20 (19.4); 

 middle toe, 11.' 



'Eight specimens. 

 ^Eleven specimens. 



Specimens from the island of Dominica average larger than those from Guadeloupe, 

 averages of the series measured being as follows: 



Locality. Wing. Tail. posed Tarsus. ""J^g/^ 



MALES. 



Four adult males from Guadeloupe . . . 

 Four adult males from Dominica 



FEMALES. 



Seven adult females from Guadeloupe 

 Four adult females from Boiuinica . . . 



11.3 

 11.7 



11 

 11 



