BIRDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 587 



Dendmca decora Salvin, Cat. Strickland Coll., 1882/ 92 (Guatemala).— Salvin 



and GoDMAN, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1881, 136, pi. 10, fig. 1.— Shaepe, 



Oat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 305. 

 DendrcAca gracix decora Goode, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 20, 1883, 318. 

 D\_endroka] decOra Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 506. 

 Dendroica decora Ridgway, Proc. IT. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1888, 585 (Segovia R., 



Honduras) .—Nelson, Auk, xv, 1898, 159 (Tonald, Chiapas; Santo Domingo, 



Oaxaca). 



DENDROICA ADELAID.ffi Baird. 

 ADELAIDE'S WARBLER. 



Much like Z>. gracice decora^hxA back and sides without black streaks 

 and yellow of under parts extending over abdomen to anal region; 

 wing and tail shorter. 



Adult male. — Above plain slate-gray, the forehead and crown nar- 

 rowly streaked with black and margined along each side by a narrow 

 black stripe; wings and tail dull black or dusky with slate-gray edg- 

 ings (paler on remiges, where nearly white terminally); middle and 

 greater wing-coverts broadly tipped with white, forming two distinct 

 bands, of which the posterior one is narrower, the white confined to 

 outer webs, and not extending to the innermost coverts; inner webs of 

 three outermost rectrices extensively white terminally, the white occu- 

 pying about the terminal half on lateral rectrix; a broad superciliary 

 stripe of yellow, scarcely extending beyond eye, the posterior extremity 

 narrow and whitish; a yellow suborbital spot, separated from the yel- 

 low supraloral stripe by a loral streak of black or dusky gray: auricu- 

 lar region and sides of neck plain gray; a spot of black on sides of neck 

 (between gray of sides of neck and yellow of lower throat), with an 

 indistinct whitish space immediately in front of it; malar region, chin, 

 throat, chest, and breast lemon yellow, passing into paler yellow on 

 abdomen and this into white on under tail-coverts, the sides and flanks 

 tinged with olive, but not streaked; under wing-coverts white; bill 

 blackish, with paler tomia; legs and feet light brownish (in dried 

 skins); length (skins), 97-100 (98.3); wing, 49-51 (50); tail, 41-44 

 (42.3); exposed culmen, 10; tarsus 17-19 (18.6); middle toe, 9-10 (9.6).'' 



Young, first j)him,age. — Above plain brownish gray, strongly washed 

 with brown on back; no black on forehead nor crown; a narrow super- 

 ciliary streak (scarcely passing beyond eye), suborbital spot, chin, 

 throat, and chest pale primrose yellow or yellowish white, the remain- 

 ing under parts yellowish white; chest and sides of breast spotted with 

 grayish dusky; wings and tail as in adult, but edgings more brownish or 

 olive-gray and wing-bands narrower and less purely white. 

 Island of Porto Rico, Greater Antilles. 



'Dated 1882, but cited in the Biologia Centrali-Americana, 1881, as above. 

 * Three specimens. 



