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the forehead and on the chin. Win^ quills and coverts blackish with 

 yellowish edges. Tail blackish olive, with yellow edges; the outer- 

 most two feathers on each side have the greatest portion of the inner 

 webs pale yellow. Under parts pale yellow. The crown, rump, 

 tertials, belly, and under tail-coverts are sparsely marked with unde- 

 fined patches of pale orange. Female: Nearly as the male, but the 

 deep orange is spread over the whole cheeks, chin, thi-oat, and breast. 

 The head and neck are dusky gray, tinged with olive, and patched 

 with the fulvous much more largely, but irregularly, and as if laid 

 upon the darker hue." (Original description, the measurements con- 

 verted from inches to millimetei's.^) 

 Island of Jamaica, Greater Antilles. 



Sylvicola eoa Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 158 (Jamaica; types in coll. Brit. Mus.); 



lllustr. Birds Jamaica, 1849, pi. 34. — Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 309.— 



Albeecht, Journ. fiir Orn., 1862, 201. 

 M[;niotUta\ eoa Gkay, Gen. Birds, i, 1848, 196. 

 iMniotilta'l eoa Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 240, no. 3480. 

 Bendroica eon Baird, Review Am. Birds, 1865, 195, footnote. — Cory, Auk, iii, 



1896, 32; Birds W. I., 1889, 46; Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 18, 118, 130. 

 Dlendroical eoa Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 218. 

 Dendrceca eoa Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1861, 71. — Cohes, Birds Col.Val., 



1878, 256, footnote (synonymy). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds, Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 



266, footnote. 

 D^endraxal eoa Newton (A. and E. ), Handb. Jamaica, 1881, 106. 

 [Dendrceca'] eoa Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 297, in text.^CoRY, List 



Birds W. I., 1885, 8. 

 Dendroeca eoa Sundevall, Of v. k. Vet.-Ak. Forh. Stockh., xxvi, 1870, 609 



(monogr. ). 



DENDROICA MACULOSA (Gmelin). 



MAGNOLIA ■WARBLER. " '^ 



Inner webs of rectrices (except middle pair) with a broad' band of 

 white across middle portion. " ' '- ■ 



^ This bird continues to be known only from the two original specimens, now in 

 the collection of the British Museum. Regarding these Dr. Sharpe (in Catalogue of 

 the British Museum, x, 266, 267) remarks as follows: 



The two typical specimens are in the British Museum, but from-long exposure to 

 the light in the gallery have become discolored and faded. They have been care- 

 fully dismounted, like all other typical specimens, and placed in the series of skins; 

 but the coloration ia now so different to that described by Mr. Gosse that I have 

 preferred to reproduce his original descriptions. I can scarcely believe that the male 

 bird ever exhibited the rufous color of the throat and chest to the extent shown by 

 Mr. Gosse in his plate of D. eoa, wherein also, by representing the tail in a closed 

 position, the affinities of , the bird are hidden. The yellow on the outer tail-feathers 

 is a character of the Dendroeca sestiva group, but the color of the throat is only matched 

 by D. blackbumiiB; and I have no doubt that D. eoa is a hybrid between the last-named 

 bird and D. sestiva or D. petechia. 



To the above I will only add that in my opinion the supposed hybrid nature of 

 D. eoa is extremely improbable, and that the bird is a hybrid between D. blaclebumite 

 and D. petechia impossible, for the reason that the proximate limits of the breeding 

 ranges of these two species are at least 700 miles apart. 



