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brown; wings dark brown, edged with yellow; tail-feathers brown, 

 heavily marked with yellow on the inner webs and faintly edged with 

 it on the outer. 



"Length, 120.6; wing, 69.7; tail, 50.8; tarsus, 20.3; bill, Y.6."' 

 (Cory.) 



St. Andrews Island, Caribbean Sea. 



Dendroica flavida Cory, Descr. Six New Sp. Birds from Old Providence and St. 

 Andrews, May 27, 1887, 3; Auk, iv, July, 1887, 179 (St. Andrews Island, 

 Caribbean Sea; coll. C. B. Cory). 



DENDROICA RUFICAPILLA RUFOPILEATA Ridgway. 

 CTJRAQAO YELLOW WARBLER. 



Similar to D. r. ruficapilla, but forehead and crown uniform chest- 

 nut, forming a sharply defined oval patch, the adult female with under 

 parts paler yellow. 



AduUmale. — Forehead and crown uniform rufous-chestnut, forming 

 a sharply defined oval patch; rest of upper parts plain yellowish olive- 

 green, becoming decidedly yellowish on lower rump, the longer upper 

 tail-coverts darker olive-green, with yellowish edges; wings (except 

 lesser coverts) dusky, the middle coverts broadly tipped with j^ellow, the 

 greater coverts and tertials broadly edged with yellow, the secondaries 

 and primaries more narrowly edged with yellowish olive-green ; rectrices 

 dusky, edged with yellowish olive-green, the inner webs of four outer- 

 most chiefly yellow; sides of head (including superciliary stripe) and 

 under parts rich, pure gamboge or lemon yellow, the chest broadly 

 streaked with chestnut-rufous, the sides and flanks sometimes more 

 narrowly streaked with the same; maxilla black, with paler tomia; 

 mandible grayish dusky (bluish gray in life?); iris brown; legs and 

 feet horn brownish (in dried skins); length (skins), 112-115 (114.2); 

 wing, 56-60 (57.5); tail, 44-47 (45.2); exposed culmen, 9-11 (10.5); 

 tarsus, 18-19 (18.5); middle toe, 10-12 (11).' 



Adult female. — Above plain yellowish olive-green, including pileum, 

 the wings and tail as in adult male; sides of head and under parts 

 yellow, paler and duller than in adult male, and without streaks or 

 else with mere traces of them on chest; length (skins), 102-112 (108.7); 

 wing, 53-57(54.6); tail, 41-47 (43) ; exposed culmen, 9-11 (10); tarsus, 

 16-19 (18); middle toe, 10.' 



Island of Curasao, southern Caribbean Sea. 



Dendroica rufopileata Bidgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vii, July 29, 1884, 173 

 (Curacao, Dutch West Indies; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.).— Bbelbpsch, Journ. 

 fiirOrn., 1892, 76 (Curagao) .—Peters, Journ. fflrOrn., 1892, 116 (Curagao). 



'Measurements converted from inches and tenths. 

 '' Four specimens. 

 'Three specimens. 



