608 ON SOME NEW FORMS OF AMERICAN BIRDS, 
5. Dendroica pia: var. decora Rip@way. Honduras Warbler. 
. CHAR. Similar to D. Gr * but wing and tail much De and genami 
form less slender. oh supereiliary pen wholly yellow and scar 
peen ofw sha for from an eighth to nearly a quarter of an inch ‘behind the eye; yel- 
of throat and jugulum pip over the breast, instead of only reaching to its 
anterior order; lore deep black, raps of dusky grayish; streaks on the back and 
rrower, and those on the upper tail-coverts broader. Above fine ash 
= 
log 
a 
crown, ak ck and upper tail pka with shaft-streaks of black; hopan stripe 
e geyk to Sla rior angle of the eye; throat, jugulum and breast, gambog pie 
rest of l par hte, Sapisa ith two white bands, and inner webs of tail 
Miia with Vaike pitones, Wing, 2°20; tail, 1:95; culmen, 30; tarsus, *60. 
HAB. Belize, Hondura 
The differences between the three races of D. Gracie may be 
expressed as follows 
N CHARACTERS. Auriculars, neck, crown and upper parts generally, ashy; 4 
Seater ate pap crescent on lower eyelid, and the anterior lower parts gamboge 
yellow; rage ite. 
a. Bac ce altea streaked with black; abdomen white. 
stripe reaching '20 of an inch back of the eye, a Oye rtion of it 
white; dorsal BAOH broad. Wing, 2°60; tail, i i- 
zona (Fort Whip . 
Yellow of throat e covering whole jagulam and wok uaine i abruptly; 
A ER phen arcely passi = eye and wholly yellow; spe sal 
eaks Wing, 2-20; tail, 1°95. Hab. Honduras (Be- 
ra . var. DECORA. 
b. Back re sides not streaked with black; abdomen + ello 
Yellow of soap Spay Pir back to crissum; otio stripe as 
in var. de ; dorsal isc ee Hab. Porto Rico, 
var. ADELAIDE-+ 
6. Myiodioctes pusillus, var. pileolata (Pauuas).{ 
P. CHAR. Similar to M. sillus, but much richer yellow, scarcely t petis 
with olive laterally, and eriein pe an almost orange shade on the front and chin 
i ! n. The black uae with a 
brighter steel-blue gloss. Bill much narrower, light brown above, instead of nearly 
black. Measures (4,222 = = ret w 
Pa 
Ha f Nort’ k ( ak (Alaska): south through 
Western Mexico (and et ca. fe eisai Rica. 
This is an appreciably different race from that inhabiting the 
eastern division of the continent; the differences, tested by a large 
series of specimens, being very constant. 
A Costa Rican specimen before us is almost exactly like speci- 
mens from California. 
ound pul fy =e! ov pli eae pees. Birey Am. B., 1865, 210. 
anban f pa piieolata Palias 8, Ze. Ros Ly ror i, eo 497 (asaina © ore $ 
Myiodioctes p sillus, var. pi Ieoiata” ergo y, Report U. Geol Expl 
40th Par. (in press). ay odi octes pusillus Auct. (all citations from Fo Be. 
"coast of North and Middle America merica) - uord. Pry Art. mst Wo "Y ., iv, 1864, 1 
eer & Bannister (Alaska) —Cooper, Orn. Cal., i, 1870, 1 
