526 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



D\_endroica] rafo-pileata Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. MuB., viii, 1885, 350 ("Old 



Providence;" error for CuragaxD). 

 Dendraca rufopileata Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 281. 

 Dendroica rufo-pileata Robinson, Flying Trip to Tropics, 1895, 165 (Curafao). 

 D[endroica] capitalis rufopileata Beelepsch, Journ. fiir Orn., Jan., 1892, 76 



(Curapao). 



DENDROICA RUFICAPILLA CAPITALIS (Lawrence). 

 BARBADOS YELLOW WARBLER. 



Similar to D. r. rufojyileata, but wing and tail shorter; adult male 

 with chestnut crown-patch much darker (rich dark chestnut or bay) 

 and chestnut streaks on chest and sides darker chestnut and much 

 narrower. 



Aduitmale.—ljength (skins), 100-106 (102); wing, 65-58(56.6); tail, 

 •i3^5 (44); exposed culmen, 9-11 (10); tarsus, 19; middle toe, 10.' 



Adult female. — Length (skin), 115; wing, 54; tail 42; exposed cul- 

 men, 11; tarsus, 19; middle toe, 12.^ 



Island of Barbados, Lesser Antilles. 



Dendrceca capitalis Lawrence, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., xx, Dec, 1868, 359' 



(Barbados, Lesser Antilles; coll. G. N. Lawrence). — Salvin, Ibis, 1874, 306 



(crit.). — CouES, Birds Col. Val., 1878, 256, footnote (synonymy). — Shaepe, 



Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 280, 645. 

 IDcndro^ca] capitalis Coey, List Birds W. I., 1885, 8. 

 Dlendroica'] capitalis Baied, Beewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 



271.— Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 350. 

 Dendroica capitalis Coey, Auk, iii, 1886, 31; Birds W. I., 1889, 45; Cat. W. L 



Birds, 1892, 18, 118, 134 (Barbados). 

 IJfnMUta'] capitalis Geay, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 202 (in index). 

 IDendroeca petechia} c. barbadensis Sundevall, Ofv. k. Vet.-Akad. Forh. Stockh., 



xxvi, 1870, 608 (monogr.). 

 Dendrceca petechia (not Motadlla petechia Linnaeus) Sclatbr, Proc. Zool. Soc. 



Lond., 1874, 174 (Barbados). 



DENDROICA RUFIGULA Baird. 

 MARTINiaUE YELLOW WARBLER. 



Adult male. — Entire pileum, including occiput, uniform rufous- 

 che.'itnut; rest of head, including whole throat and upper median portion 

 of chest, similar but paler (between orange-rufous and cinnamon- 

 rufous), the feathers yellowish beneath the surface; sides of neck and 

 under parts (except as described) rich lemon or gamboge yellow, the 

 chest and sides narrowly streaked with the color of the throat, or darker 



' Three specimens. 

 '' One specimen. 



•'First mentioned and characterized, but not named, by Professor Baird in Review 

 Am. Birds, 1865, 202, in text under Dendroica IruficapUla']. 



