620 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



CATHAROPEZA BISHOPI (Lawrence). 

 BISHOP'S WARBLER. 



Adult wiaZe. —Pileum, sides of head, hindneck, and rest of upper 

 parts black, becoming gradually less intense posteriorly, the rump, 

 tail, etc., being slate-black; a broad orbital ring of white; a supraloral 

 spot or streak of grayish white; malar apex, chin, and lower throat 

 white, or grayish white, the feathers slate color or slate-gray beneath 

 the surface; feathers on median line of upper throat tipped with white; 

 chest dusky slate or slate-blackish; sides and flanks brownish slate- 

 gray or mouse gray, separated from the darker broad chest-band by a 

 narrow band of white; median portion of breast and abdomen white, 

 the feathers slate-gray beneath the surface; under tail-coverts with 

 basal half slate-gray, terminal half white; under wing-coverts plain 

 slate-gray; inner webs of three outermost rectrices with a small ter- 

 minal triangular spot of white, largest on the exterior rectrix; bill 

 black; legs and feet pale yellowish brown (flesh color in life?); length 

 (skin), 137.2;^ wing, 70.1; tail, 53.8; exposed culmen, 13.2; tarsus, 23.1.^ 



Adult female. — Scarcely distinguishable from the adult male, but 

 upper parts of body, wings, and tail more sooty (nearly deep clove 

 brown), and terminal spots of under tail-coverts tinged with brownish 

 buff; length (skin), 148.6;" wing, 66.8; tail, 52.6; exposed culmen, 12.7; 

 tarsus, 22.6.' 



Immature {sexes alike). — Above plain deep olive, the remiges and 

 rectrices more dusky, inclining to clove brown; a lighter supraloral 

 spot; two lateral rectrices with small terminal white spots, as in 

 adults; an incomplete whitish orbital ring; sides of throat olive, the 

 median portion of throat mixed olive and whitish; lower throat dull 

 brownish buff or pale wood brownish; chest, sides, and flanks light 

 olive; median portion of breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts dull 

 brownish buff or wood brown ; bill and feet as in adults. 



Island of St. Vincent, Lesser Antilles. 



Leucopeza bishopi Lawrence, Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci., i, no. 5, June, 1878, 151 (St. 



Vincent, W. I.; coH. U. S. Nat. Mus.); Proc. V. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 189 



(notes, etc.), 486.— Shaepe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 228, 638.' 

 Catharopeza bishopi Sclatee, Ibis, 4th ser., iv, Jan., 1880, 73, pi. 1. — Lister, Ibis, 



1880, 40.— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 41; Birds W. I., 1889, 55; Cat. W. I. Birds, 



1892, 18, 119, 134. 

 [Catharopeza] bishopi Cory, List Birds W. I., 1885, 8. 



^ Length before skinning, 146; extent of wings, 215.9. (Ober. ) 



" One specimen. 



'Length before skinning, 139.7; extent of wings, 203.2. (Ober.) 



