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upper plumage is greenish-yellow ; the middle tail-feathers, the outer 

 webs arid ends of inner webs of the others are dark olive, blackish along 

 the shafts ; the margins are pale yellow ; the inner webs are clear light 

 yellow, except at their ends ; wing-coverts black, all margined with pale 

 yellow ; tertials and outer webs of the other quills black, inner webs of 

 a lighter shade of black, having a grayish tinge ; all the quills are edged 

 with yellow, extending around the tips ; under wing-coverts clear light 

 yellow ; sides of the head and of the throat light yellowish-rufous ; all 

 the under parts clear gamboge-yellow, marked with narrow stripes of 

 dark rufous, except on the lower part of the abdomen and the under 

 tail-coverts ; upper mandible dark brown, the under plumbeous ; tarsi 

 and toes light hazel. 



The female is rather darker above, and is without the rufous crown 

 and longitudinal stripes below ; it has the under mandible whitish. 



This species most resembles var. ruficapitla, Gm., from St. Thomas, 

 St. Croix, &c. Besides the striking feature of its black wings, it differs 

 in being smaller, the wing measuring but two and a quarter inches, 

 which in the other are two and a half; the tarsi and toes are more deli- 

 cately formed; the tarsus measures in. against -fj in. in rujicapilla ; 

 the rufous streaks below are narrower and darker; the color of the 

 crown is darker than in specimens from St. Thomas and Porto Kico, 

 and the yellow margins of the wing-coverts arc not so wide. 



In my investigation of this species 1 find D. petechia of my Dominica 

 catalogue to be the same ; that island is the nearest south of Guade- 

 loupe, and not very distant. But at a further distance to the north 

 in Antigua and Barbuda, the species of Golden Warbler proves to be 

 var. rujicapilla, Gm., as might be expected ; agreeing with specimens 

 from Sr. Thomas and Porto Pico, considered to be the form entitled to 

 that appellation. 



In Martinique is found a very different form, viz., JK rujtgultt) Bairdj 

 in Barbadoes still another, J), capitalist, Lawr. 

 Prom St. Vincent and Grenada Mr. Ober sent do Golden Warblers. 



8. Dendrceca plumbea, Lawr. 



"Length, <?, 5J in.; alar extent, 7 1 ; wing, 2J. 

 "Length, 9, 5J in.; alar extent, 7; wing, 2J." 



9. Setophaga ruticilla (Linn.). 



" Length, <?, in.; alar extent, 7J; wing, 2£. 

 " Length, 9, 5| in.; alar extent, 7J; wing, 2g." 



Fam. VIREONIDJE. 



10. Vireosylvia calidris var. dominicana, Lawr. 



" i Peow-peow.' 



"Length, <?, G 1 in.; alar extent, 9j}; wing, 3J. 

 "Length, 9, G£ in.; alar extent, 9£; wing, 3J. 



"Known everywhere by its cry; frequenting chiefly trees bearing 



small seeds." 



