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Dendroiea palmarum hypochrysea American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 

 1886, no. 672a.— Scott, Auk, vii, 1890, 20 (Tarpon Springs, Punta Rassa, 

 and Key West, Florida, rare in late Mar. and early Apr.), 314 (Garden Key, 

 Tortugas, Mar. 22 and 31, 2 specs.) ; x, 1893, 341 (Kingston, Jamaica, 1 spec, 

 Dec. 20, 1890).— Allen (F. H.), Auk, viii, 1891, 165 (Cape Breton, Nova 

 Scotia).— WiNTLE, Auk, viii, 1891, 396 (Montreal, Canada, 1 spec, May 7, 

 1891).— McCoEMiCK, Auk, ix, 1892, 397 (Oberlin, Ohio, 1 spec, Apr. 16, 

 1892).— Cory, Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 118, 155 (Cuba, Jan., Feb.).— Porter, 

 Auk, xvii, 1900, 72 (Newfoundland, abundant Sept. 8 and after). 



D[mdroica] palmarum hypochrysea Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 517. 



DENDROICA PLUMBEA Lawrence. 

 PLUMBEOTTS ■WARBLER. 



Admits {sexes rtfo'fe).— Above uniform slate color, relieved by a nar- 

 row superciliary line of white and two white wing-bars, produced by 

 tips of middle and greater coverts; inner webs of two or three outer- 

 most rectrices with a small terminal space of white, occupying on the 

 outermost not more than inner half of the web, on the others much 

 less;^ sides of head, sides of neck, and thence backward to and includ- 

 ing flanks plain slate-gray, the first relieved by a white suborbital spot; 

 median under parts grayish white, the feathers gray beneath surface; 

 maxilla dark brown, mandible much paler; legs and feet horn brownish 

 (in dried skins). 



Immature {ioth sexes). — With exactly the same pattern of coloration 

 as adults, but with the slate color of upper parts replaced by deep 

 olive, the slate-gray of sides, etc., by lighter, more greenish, olive, 

 and the white of head markings and median under parts by pale olive- 

 yellow. 



Adult maZe.— Length (skins), 120-127 (124.5)'; wing, 58-66 (61.9); 

 tail, 50-59 (54.1); exposed culmen, 11; tarsus, 20-21 (20.3); middle 

 toe, 11-12 (11.3).' 



Adult female.— Wing, 66-61 (57.9); tail, 50-54 (51.4); exposed cul- 

 men, 11-12 (11.1); tarsus, 19-21 (20.6); middle toe, 10-12 (11.1).' 



Islands of Dominica and Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles.^ 



' Four specimens. ^ Ten specimens. ^ Seven specimens. 



* Specimens from Guadeloupe have, as a rule, decidedly shorter wings and tail than 

 those from Dominica, but I am not able to discover any difference in coloration. 

 Average measurements are as follows: 



