BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 595 



Nutt. Orn. Club, viii, 1882, 9 (s. e. Texas) .—Sharpb, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 X, 1885, 320, 650 (Bucaramanga, Remedios, and Medellin, Colombia; Panama 

 and Chepo, Isthmus of Panama; Veragua) . 



[Dendrceca] castanea Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 101.— Sclater and Salvin, 

 Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 9. 



Dlendmca] castanea Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 804. 



Dmdroeca castanea Sundevall, Of v. k. Vet.-Ak. Forh. Stookh., xxvi, 1870 

 614 (monogr. ). 



SyMa autumnalis Wilson, Am. Orn., iii, 1811, 65, pi. 23, fig. 3.— Stephens, 

 Shaw's Gen. ZooL, x, 1817, 632.— Vieillot, Enc. M6th., ii, 1823, 448.— 

 Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, 1824, 195; Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, 

 1826, 84.— NuTTALL, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., i, 1832, 390.— Audubon, Orn! 

 Biog., i, 1831, 447, pi. 88. 



DENDROICA STRIATA (Forster). 

 BLACE-FOLL WARBLER. 



AdfuU male in spring and summer. — Entire pileum uniform black; 

 hindneck streaked with black and white, in varjdng relative propor- 

 tion; back and scapulars broadly streaked with black on a gray, pale 

 olive, or (more rarely) wood brown ground; rump and upper tail- 

 coverts similar but less distinctly streaked, often (especially the rump) 

 without streaks; tail dusky, with light gray edgings, the inner webs of 

 two or three outermost rectrices with a subterminal patch of white 

 (largest on the lateral rectrix); wings dusky with light olive edgings 

 (more yellowish olive on primaries), the middle and greater coverts 

 broadly tipped with white, forming two conspicuous bands; sides of 

 head white, including lower eyelid, suborbital region, auricular region, 

 and malar region; sides of neck streaked with black and white; under 

 parts white, broadly streaked laterally with black, the black streaks 

 on sides of throat coalesced into two stripes converging and usually 

 united on chin, forming a conspicuous V-shaped mark; under tail- 

 coverts immaculate pure white; maxilla dusky with paler tomia; 

 mandible horn brownish, paler basally; iris brown; legs and feet pale 

 yellowish brown in dried skins (yellowish in life?); length (skins), 118- 

 140(125.8); wing, 71.4-77.6 (74.2); tail, 48.6-54(51.3); tarsus, 18.4- 

 20.4 (19.1); middle toe, 10.8-13 (12).^ 



Adult female in sprvng and summer. — Above varying from olive- 

 green to gray, streaked, more or less broadly, with blackish, the 

 streaks usually more or less obsolete on rump; wings and tail as in 

 adult male, but white wing-bands tinged with yellow (except in speci- 

 mens having a gray upper surface); under parts varying from white 

 to pale olive-yellow (with all intermediate conditions — the under tail- 

 coverts always white), more or less distinctly streaked laterally icith 

 black or dusky, the streaks usually most distinct on sides of throat 



' Twenty-five specimens. 



