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Dendroica meillotii Bangs, Auk, xviii, 1901, 30 (San Miguel I., Bay of Panama). 

 Dendrceca vieilloti Sclatbr, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 32, part (Colombia).— Coues, 



Birds Col. Val., 1878, 256, footnote (synonymy). 

 [Dendroica vieilloti'] var. vieilloti Baird, Brewer, and Eidgway, Hist. N. Am. 



Birds, i, 1874, 217, (Cartagena, Colombia). 

 [Dendrceca] vieilloti Solater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 9, part. 

 [Dendroeca petechia] i. panamerms Sundevall, Ofv. k. Vet.-Ak. Forh., Stockh., 



xxvi, 1870, 609 (=D. vieilloti Oassin). 

 [Dendroica vieilloti:] var. rufigula (not Dendroica rufigula Baird, 1865) Baird, 



Brewer, and Eidgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 217 (Isthmus Panama). 



DENDROICA BRYANTI BRYANTI Ridgway. 

 BRYANT'S YELLOW WARBLER. 



Similar to D. eriifuichorides, but adult male with chest and sides much 

 less heavily streaked (sometimes almost without streaks), the chestnut- 

 rufous of the throat abruptly defined posteriorly. 



Adult male. — Pileum varying from rufous-tawny to nearly chestnut, 

 the rest of the head, including usually the whole throat, similar but 

 very slightly paler; hindneck,^ back, scapulars, lesser wing-coverts, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts, plain yellowish olive-green, the back 

 sometimes indistinctly streaked with dark chestnut or dusky; wings 

 (except lesser coverts) dusky, the middle coverts broadly tipped with 

 yellow, the greater coverts and tertials broadly edged with yellow, the 

 secondaries and primaries more narrowly edged with yellowish olive- 

 green; tail dusky, the rectrices edged with yellowish olive-green and 

 with inner webs of all except middle pair mostly yellow; under parts, 

 except throat,^ rich lemon or gamboge yellow, the chest and sides usu- 

 ally nan-owly streaked with chestnut, rarely almost immaculate; maxilla 

 black, with paler tomia; mandible dusky grayish (bluish gray in life?); 

 iris brown; legs and feet horn color or light brownish (in dried skins); 

 length (skins), 120-134 (124.7); wing, 62-70 (65.7); tail, 46-56 (50); 

 exposed culmen, 11; tarsus, 20-22 (20.9); middle toe, 11-13 (12.4).' 



Adult female. — Exceedingly variable in coloration. Above varying 

 from entirely plain yellowish olive-green to mostly dull ash gray; 

 beneath, from wholly yellow, tinged witt olive-green laterally, to 

 white, tinged with gray laterally; chest sometimes very narrowly 

 streaked with chestnut, and head sometimes with scattered feathers of 

 that color; length (skins), 110-121 (116); wing, 58-62 (60.4); tail, 45^6 



' Sometimes, apparently, the rufous-tawny color of the pileum descends over the 

 upper hindneck. 



'Usually the entire throat is uniform rufous- tawny or light chestnut- rufous, but 

 this color never invades the chest; sometimes only the upper half (more or less) 

 of the throat is of this color, the lower throat being yellow, like the chest and other 

 under parts. In all cases the color is abruptly defined, all round. 



' Eleven specimens. 



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