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BIRDS OF HAITI AND SAN DOMINGO. 



Winter Plumage, Male. — Upper parts, olive green, slightly 

 marked with black ; feathers of the head, black, edged with gray, 

 giving the top of the head a mottled appearance; ear coverts showing 

 a very slight tinge of chestnut; superciliary stripe, yellow; a yellow 

 band passing round the sides of the throat, nearly joining above; 

 underparts, bright yellow, streaked with black; quills and tail, dark 

 brown, edged with yellowish white ; three outer tail-feathers with 

 patch of white upon the inner webs; rump, yellow; crissum, yellowish 

 white. 



Winter Plumage, Female. — Above, olivaceous ash, showing 

 yellowish on the rump ; no black or chestnut about the head ; 

 tail spots not so clear as in the male; beneath, whitish, slightly 

 tinged with yellow on the breast, and streaked with dusky, not 

 black, as in the male. 



Length 4.75; wing 2.80; tail 2; tarsus .80; bill .40. 



A winter visitant; very abundant in February and March. 



DENDRCECA CCERULESCENS. (Gm.) 



Motacilla eaerulesccns. Gm., Syst. Nat, I. p. 960(1788). 



Sylvia cccmdesccus. Lath., Ind. Orn., II. p. 520(1790). 



Dendrceca ccerulescens. Bd., Rev. Am. Bds., p. 1S6 (1865).— Bd., Bwr. 



and Ridgw., Hist. N. A. Bds., I. p. 254 (1S74).— Cones, Bds. 



N. W., p. 55 (1874). — Godman and Salvin, Biol. Cent. Amer. 



Zool. Aves, Ft. VI. p. 126 (1880). — Cory, Bds. Bahama I., p. 5 S 



(1880). — Cory, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, VI. p. 151 (1881). 



