BIRDS OF HAITI AND SAN DOMINGO. 



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DENDRCECA MACULOSA. (Gm.) 



Motacilla mactdosa. Gm.. Syst. Nat, I. p. 984 (1788). 



Sylvia maculosa. Lath., Ind. Orn., II. p. 536 (1790). — Aud., Orn. 

 Biog., I. p. 260 ( 1 S3 1 ). 



Sylvicola maculosa. Sw. and Rich., Faun. B. Am., II. p. 213 ( 1 8 3 1 ). 

 — Aud., Bds. Am., II. p. 65 (1841). 



Devdrceca maculosa. Bd., B. N. A., p. 284 (1858); Rev., p. 206 

 (1865). — Gund., J. f. O., p. 326 (1861). — Coues, Bds. N. W., 

 p. 63 (1874).— Bd., Bwr. and Ridgw., Hist. N. A. Bds., I. p. 232 

 (1874). — Godman and Salvin, Biol. Centr. Amer. Zool. Aves, 

 Pt. IX. p. 129 ( 1 881). — Cory, Bds. Bahama I., p. 62 (1880). 



Sylvia magnolia. Wils., Am. Orn., III. p. 63 (181 1). 



Winter Plumage, Male. — Underparts, bright yellow, streaked 

 with black on the flanks ; head and neck, ashy gray ; back, yellowish 

 olive; rump, yellow; eyelids, dull yellow; quills and tail, black, the 

 latter having a patch of white on the inner webs of all except the 

 two central feathers ; wing with two white bands, formed by the 

 middle and secondary coverts. 



Female. — Similar to the male, but plumage very much duller. 



Length 4.50; wing 2.30; tail 215; tarsus .65 ; bill .30. 



This species is probably a rare winter visitant ; a single specimen 

 was taken at Puerto Plata, San Domingo, Dec. 14, 1882. 



