586 



BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



1881, 142 (San Juan Co., Colorado, in pines up to 7,500 ft.) .— Ridgway, Nom., 



N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 104.— Henshaw, Auk, ii, 1885, 331 (upper Pecos R., 



New Mexico, fall migrant) .—Shakpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 304, 



648. 

 [Dendrceca'] gradx CouES, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 103.— Sclatee and Salvin, 



Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 9. 

 Diendroica] gradx Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 306. 

 Dendrseca gracise Elliot, Illustr. Unfig Birds N. Am., i, 1869, pi. 6. 

 Dmdroeca gracise Sundevall, Ofv. k. Vet.-Akad. Forh. Stockh., xxvi, 1870, 611 



(monogr. ). 

 IMniotilta'] gradx Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 241, no. 3489.^Giebel, Thesaurus 



Orn., 1875, 603. 

 \_Dmdrceca gracix} a. gracise Codes, Birds Col. Val., 1878, 292. 



DENDROICA GRACI.ffi; DECORA Ridgway. 

 DECORATED WARBLER. 



Similar to D. g. graciw^ but smaller; yellow superciliary stripe 

 shorter, without whitish posterior extremity; yellow ot throat and 

 chest extending further backward, covering upper chest.' 



Admit male.— h&T\gt\i (skins), 106-117 (111.5); wing, 55-62 (57); 

 tail, 43^7 (45); exposed culmen, 9-10 (9.7); tarsus, 16-18 (17); middle 

 toe, 10.' 



State of Oaxaca" (Zapotitlan; mountains near Santo Domingo, June 

 18) and Chiapas" (mountains near Tonala, August 15) southern Mexico; 

 Guatemala (Toyabai-Guitche, May 19); British Honduras (Belize); 

 Honduras (Rio Segovia, July 17). 



Dmdroeca gradx (not of Baird) Salvin, Ibis, 1873, 428 (Guatemala). 

 [Dendrosca] gradx Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1878, 9 (Honduras). 

 Dendroica gradx, var. decora Ridgway, Am. Nat., vii, Oct., 1873, 608 (Belize, 



British Honduras; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). — Baird, Brewer, and Eidgway, 



Hist. N. A.m. Birds, iii, 1874, 505. 

 [Dendroiea gradx} var. decora Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, 



i, 1874, 220, 244. 

 [Dendrceca gradx} b. decora Coues, Birds Col. Val., 1878, 292. 



^ Except in specimens, doubtfully referred to this form, from States of Oaxaca and 

 Chiapas, southern Mexico. 



^ Three specimens, one of them (from Oaxaca) not sexed and possibly not a male. 

 These three specimens measure, respectively, as follows: 



' I am doubtful whether or not specimens from Oaxaca and Chiapas are properly 

 referred to this form, the two specimens examined having the yellow of under parts 

 restricted to the throat and chest, as in D. g. gradx. 



