BIRDS OF HAITI AND SAN DOMINGO. 



blue across the jugulum, anterior to one of brown intermixed with 

 yellow; a small white spot on the eyelid; sides of the head, ashy blue; 

 two well-defined white bands on the wings; belly, white, shading into 

 ash upon the side and flanks, and yellowish upon the crissum ; tail, 

 with the exception of the two middle feathers, showing a patch of 

 white upon the inner webs. 



Winter Phunage, Female. — Above, olive ; underparts, dull white, 

 sometimes showing a tinge of brownish on the breast. 



Length 4.40; wing 2.35; tail 2; tarsus .65. 



The present species is a common winter visitant. 



Genus : DENDRCECA. Gray. 

 DENDRCECA: GRAY, GENERA BIRDS, APPENDIX 8, 1842. 



DENDRCECA TIGRINA. (Gm.) 



Motacilla tigrina. Gm., Syst. Nat., I. 985 (1788). 

 Sylvicola tigrina. Bryant, Proc. Boston Soc, XI. p. 91 (1867). 

 Deneiroica tigrina. Bd., Bds. N. A., p. 286 (1858). — Gund., J. f. O., 

 p. 326 (1861). 



Dendroeca tigrina. Scl., P. Z. S., 1861, p. 71. — Coues, Bds. Colorado 



Vail., p. 245 (1878). — Cory, Bds. Bahama L, p. 63 (1880). — Cory, 



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

 Perissoglossa tigrina. Bd., Rev. Am. Bds., p. 181 (1865). — Bd., Bwr. 



and Ridgw., Hist. N. A. Bds., I. p. 212 (1874). 

 Sylvia marilima. Wils., Am. Orn., VI. p. 99 (181 2). — Aud., Am. 



Biog., V. p. 156 (1839). 



