BIEDS OF WORTH AND MTDDLE AMERICA. 537 



DENDROICA TIGRINA (Gmelin). 

 CAPE MiT WARBLER. 



Ad/ult male in fij/ring and summer. — Pileum black, sometimes (espe- 

 ciallj' in midsummer) uniformly so, usually with the feathers, at least 

 those of the occiput, margined more or less distinctly with olive (some- 

 times with rusty); sometimes a spot of rustj' on center of crown; back, 

 scapulars, lesser wing-coverts, and upper rump olive-green, the feath- 

 ers with a central spot of black; lower rump varying from yellowish 

 olive-green to clear canary yellow; upper tail-coverts blackish, broadly 

 margined with olive-green; middle wing-coverts white or pale yellow, 

 only their extreme base dusky; rest of wings dusky, the greater coverts 

 more or less broadl}^ edged with white, pale yellow, pale gray, or pale 

 olive, the remiges narrowly edged with light olive-green, these edgings 

 broader and paler on tertials; tail dusky, with olive-green or grayish 

 edgings, the three outermost rec trices with a large sub terminal patch 

 of white on inner web, decreasing rapidly in size from the first to the 

 third; superciliary stripe rufous-chestnut, at least posteriorly (the 

 anterior portion sometimes yellow); a blackish loral and postocular 

 streak; suborbital and auricular regions plain cinnamon-rufous or 

 rufous-chestnut; sides of neck and under parts yellow, becoming much 

 paler (sometimes white) on flanks, lower abdomen, and under tail- 

 coverts; chest and sides more or less broadly (usually heavily) streaked 

 with black, the throat also sometimes streaked, and often tinged with 

 cinnamon or cinnamon-rufous; bill black, the mandible sometimes 

 brownish basally; iris brown; legs and feet duskj' brownish (in dried 

 skins). 



Adult male in autumn and winter. — Much like the spring or summer 

 male but black of pileum obscured by broad margins of olive or grayish 

 to the feathers, the black showing as central triangular spots; black 

 spots of back and scapulars nearly concealed; cinnamon-rufous of sides 

 of head largely replaced by yellow; bill paler, the mandible distinctly 

 brownish. 



Young male im, first autum/n. — Much like the adult male in autumn, 

 but colors duller; greater wing-coverts edged with pale olive-grayish, 

 instead of whitish ; upper parts showing scarcely any black spotting 

 or streaking and much tinged with grayish; sides of head with scarcely 

 a trace of cinnamon-rufous, yellow of under parts paler, and black 

 streaks of chest and sides narrower and less sharply defined. 



Adult fem.ale in spring and summer. — Above olive, becoming more 

 yellowish on lower rump, where the feathers are sometimes bright 

 olive-yellow with darker mesial streaks, the pileum more or less 

 streaked or spotted with black; wings dusky with light olive edgings, 

 the middle coverts tipped or margined terminally with white, the 

 greater coverts sometimes edged with pale grayish; tail as in adult 



