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sides of neck and chest a series of broad black streaks or spots, these 

 sometimes extending beyond the yellow over sides of breast, where 

 the gray on each side encroaches more upon the white of the median 

 portion; bill black; legs and feet dark horn brown; length (skins), 

 111.8-114.3(113); wing, 56-60.4 (68.9); tail, 48.2-50.3 (49.4); exposed 

 culmen, 10-10.4 (10.3); tarsus, 16-16.7 (16.4); middle toe, 10.6-11 

 (10.8).' 



Adult (?) male in winter ^ — Similar to the spring and summer plum- 

 age but general color of upper parts smoke gray, less strongly con- 

 trasted with olive-green of crown and forehead; sides and flanks more 

 strongly tinged with pale brown; black streaks along lateral margin of 

 yellow chest-patch less distinct, and bill light horn brownish instead 

 of black. 



Adtilt female in spring and summ^er. — Similar to the adult male of 

 corresponding season and not always distinguishable, but usually very 

 slightly duller in color, or with the black streaks along lateral margin 

 of yellow chest-patch smaller or less distinct; length (skins), 109.2-115.6 

 (111.8); wing, 55.9-57.7 (57); tail, 47.5-48.3 (48.5); exposed culmen, 

 10.2-10.7 (10.4); tarsus, 16.3-16.8 (16.5); middle toe, 10.7-11.4 (11).' 



Island of Cuba, Greater Antilles (in pine woods). 



Sylmcola pityophila Gundlach, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., vi, 1855, 160 (Cuba).— 



Bkbwbk, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1860, 307. 

 Rhimamphus piiyopMlus Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1857, 240. 

 Dendroica pityophila Baikd, Eeview Am. Birds, Apr., 1865, 208.— Coey, Auk, lii, 



1886, 38;' Birds W. I., 1889, 52; Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 18, 118, 129. 

 D[endroica] pityophila Eidgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 515. 

 Olendroica'] pityophila Baied, Beewee, and Eidgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 



1874, 221. 

 Dendrceca pityophila Gundlach, Eepert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, i, 1865, 234.^3oubs, 



Birds Col. Val., 1878, 296 (synonymy).— Coey, Birds W. I., 1889, 38 



(Cuba).— Shaepb, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 322. 

 [Dendrceca] pityophila CouBS, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 297, in text.— 



Coey, List Birds W. I., 1885, 8. 

 Dendroeca pityophila Sundbvall, Ofv. k. Vet.-Akad Forh. Stockh., xxvi, 1870, 



612 (monogr.). 

 [MniotUta'] pityophila Geay, Hand-list, i, 1869, 241, no. 3499.— Gibbel, Thesaurus 



Orn., ii, 1875, 606. 



DENDROICA PITYOPHILA BAHAMENSIS Cory. 



BAHAHA WAKBLER. 



Adult male. — "Upper parts, including sides of the head and neck, 

 plumbeous gray, not light ash gray as in Dend/roica pilyyophila Gund- 

 lach. Forehead and crown greenish yellow, showing light yellow at 

 the base of the upper mandible; throat and upper breast yellow, bor- 

 dered on the breast by a few feathers marked unevenly with black. 



'Five specimens. ^ Possibly young male in first winter. 'Three specimens. 



