352 CAMPS IN THE CARIBBEES. 
the innermost secondaries dark rufous, with distinct narrow bars of 
black ; upper mandible dark-brown, the under yellowish-white ; feet 
pale brown. 
Length, 4% in.; wing, 24; tail, 18; tarsus, 44; bill from front, 5% ; 
from rictus, 2. 
Type in National Museum, Washington. 
2. Dendraca plumbea. 
Mate. The whole of the upper plumage is dark plumbeous; a 
narrow white line extends from the bill, over and beyond the eye, 
and there is a white mark on the lower eyelid; the lores are black ; 
the under plumage is of a lighter plumbeous than that of the upper; 
the chin, middle of the throat and of the breast intermixed with 
white, center of abdomen white ; the two middle tail-feathers, and 
the outer webs of the others, are like the back in color; the inner 
webs are blackish slate-color; on the inner web of the outer tail- 
feather, at the ed, is a spot of white; on the next feather is a 
smaller one, and the next two have only a terminal edging of white ; 
the middle and greater wing-coverts have their outer webs of the 
color of the back, and their inner webs black ; they end conspicu- 
ously with white, forming two bars across the wings; quills with 
their outer webs like the back, and their inner blackish slate-color ; 
under wing-coverts and axillars white ; upper mandible black, the 
under light horn-color ;_ tarsi and toes light brown. 
Length (skin), 54 in.; wing, 275; tail, 2}; tarsus, $; bill from 
front, 75. 
The female is above of a dark greenish olive ; it has black lores, 
with a white stripe over the eye and on the lower eyelid, just as in 
the male; below it is of a much lighter or grayish-olive, the chin, 
middle of the throat and of the breast mixed with pale yellowish- 
white, the middle of the abdomen is pale yellow; the ends of the 
wing-coverts, the under wing-coverts, and the axillars, are white, 
with just a tinge of yellow; the spots at the ends of the tail-feathers, 
as in the male, but less distinct ; bill and feet of the same color as 
those of the male. 
Types in National Museum, Washington. 
3. Vireosylvia calidris, var. Dominicana. 
(Dominica Catalogue, p. 55.] 
