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Dendrceca superciliosa, Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, pp. 363 ", 374 '' ; 1862, p. 368 " ; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1860, 



p. 274"; Dresser, Ibis, 1865, p. 478''. 

 MotacillaflavicoUis, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 959". 

 Sylvia flavicollis, Sw. Phil. Mag. new ser. i. p. 434". 

 Motacilla pemilis, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 960". 



Sylvicola pensilis, Gosse, B. Jam. p. 156" j Salle, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 231 '°. 

 Rhimamphus pensilis, Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 291 '\ 

 Dendrceca pensilis, Scl. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 295 '\ 



Supra cinerea, alis et cauda fusco-nigris cinereo Hmbatis, iUis albo bifasciatis, hujus rectricibus tribus utrinque 

 extemis plaga alba gradatim latius notatis ; pileo, capitis et cervicis lateribus nigris, plumis ad nucham cinereo 

 limbatis ; gutture toto laete flavo ; superciliis (interdum flavo tinctis), macula suboculari et abdomine toto 

 albis, hypochondriis nigro striatis ; rostro et pedibus nigricantibus. Long, tota 4-5, alsB 2-5, caudae 1-9, 

 rostri a rictu 0-7, tarsi 0-7. (Descr. exempl. ex Totonicapam, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 



$ mari persimilis, sed coloribuB paulo obscurioribus. 



Eab. North America, Eastern States ^ ^, Texas ^\ — Mexico (SallS^^), Te^^c {Gray son % 

 Colima {Xantus'^^), Coahuayana {Xantus% Tamaulipas {Couch^), Vera Cruz 

 {Bullock ^^), Jalapa {de Oca i^), Orizaba {Sumichrast % Oaxaca {Boucard ^^j, 

 Gineta Mountains, Chiapas {Sumichrast ^), Merida, Yucatan {Schott ^), Valladolid, 

 Yucatan {Gaumer) ; British Honduras, Belize {Blancaneaux) ; Guatemaia, 

 Totonicapam, Duenas i^, Choctum {0. S. & F. D. G.). — Antilles, Cuba'', San 

 Domingo ^^ ^^, Jamaica ^ ^^, &c. 



Mr. Eidgway, in the ' History of North- American Birds ' ^, divided Dendrceca dominica 

 into two races, distinguishable by the colour of the lores, the bird of the Atlantic States 

 and the Greater Antilles having the lores yellow, that of the middle region of North 

 America, Mexico, Yucatan, and Guatemala having the same part white. The difference 

 at most is very slight ; and its value is further diminished by the fact of Guatemalan 

 specimens having a slight yellowish tinge on the lores, breaking down the chief point 

 of distinction between Mr. Kidgway's races. 



The limit of the southern migration of D. dominica, so far as is at present known, is 

 Guatemala, where, however, it is a common bird during the winter, and is found at 

 various elevations between 1200 feet and 9000 or 10,000 feet. It does not, so far as 

 we know, stop in the country during the whole year, as has been stated to be the case 

 with the Jamaican bird ^. But it arrives early, and abounds near Duenas from the 

 middle of August till the following spring. 



In its summer quarters this species spreads over the whole of the Eastern States as 

 far north as Washington and New York, the race with white lores extending further 

 west to the Mississippi region up to Lake Erie. It doubtless breeds throughout this 

 district ; but its nestmg-habits seem but imperfectly known, the accounts of Nuttall 

 and Audubon, as given by Brewer^, not agreeing as to its mode of nidification, and 

 more recent information being very scanty on this subject. 



The references, however, to the literature of the species are very numerous, occupying 

 a closely-printed page and a half of Dr. Coues's work ^. 



