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He attributed this to an exceptionally extended dry season, with "no 

 rains until late May." 



[DENDROICA TIGRINA (Gmelin): Cape May Warbler, Reinita Altigrada 



Motacilla tigrina Gmelin, 1789, Syst. Nat., 1 (2), p. 985. (Canada.) 



Winter visitant from the north. Very rare, known only from recent 

 sight records in Chiriqui, Bocas del Toro, and the Canal Zone. Ridgely 

 ( 1976, p. 294) lists 5 sight records: "one at Almirante, Bocas del Toro, 

 on February 2 and 10, 1958 (Wetmore); one at Changuinola, Bocas 

 del Toro, on December 7, 1962 (Eisenmann) ; one below Volcan, west- 

 ern Chiriqui, on January 20, 1970 (P. Alden) ; one bright male at Sum- 

 mit Gardens, Canal Zone, on February 2, 1973 (Ridgely, Eisenmann, 

 C. Leahy, J. Gwynne) ; and one male at Volcan, Chiriqui, on January 

 15, 1974 (C. Leahy and Ridgely)." More recent sightings include 

 March 6, 1976, a female at Estero Rico, in western Chiriqui below 

 Divala (Ridgely); December 5, 1976, Bayano River Research Station, 

 eastern Province of Panama (A. Greensmith, Toucan, vol. 4, no. 2, 

 1977, p. 6). Mason (Auk, 1976, p. 168), reviewing the status of this 

 species in Middle America, where it is generally considered a vagrant, 

 concludes that "the Cape May Warbler is an infrequent winter visitor 

 or winter resident in much of Middle America and that its status may 

 have changed in the past two decades."] 



[DENDROICA CAERULESCENS (Gmelin): Black-throated 

 Blue Warbler, Reinita Azulosa 



Motacilla caerulescens Gmelin, 1789, Syst. Nat., 1(2), p. 960. (Santo Domingo.) 



Vagrant. This species is included on the basis of 1 sight record of a 

 male near Gatun Locks (besides the French Canal), Canal Zone, on 

 January 14, 1973, by D. Engelman, James Smith, N. Gale, and A. 

 Ramirez (Ridgely, 1976, p. 294). The normal winter range of D. 

 caerulescens is the Bahamas, Greater Antilles, islands of the western 

 Caribbean, and, less commonly, northern Central America, and north- 

 ern Colombia and northern Venezuela.] 



DENDROICA CORONATA CORONATA (Linnaeus): Yellow-rumped 

 Warbler, Reinita Coroniamarilla 



Motacilla coronata Linnaeus, 1766, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, 1, p. 333. (Philadelphia, 

 Pennsylvania.) 



Small; upper surface gray or light brown, with rump and crown 

 yellow; undersurface white with yellow on flanks. 



