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DESCRIPTION OF A NEW DENDRCECA. 
DESCRIPTION OF AN APPARENTLY NEW SPECIES 
OF WARBLER FROM JAMAICA. 
The following is a brief description of a Warbler that I found wffiile 
looking over a collection of bird skins in the museum of the Institute of 
Jamaica, at Kingston, where permission was kindly given me to name 
it by the curator, Prof. J. J. Bowery. 
DENDRCECA IGNOTANovo. 
Jamaica Palm Warbler. 
Plate, III, 1, head. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Sp. Ch. Size, moderate, about that of Dendroeca palmarum, to^ 
which it bears a general resemblance. 
Color. Top of head, dark chestnut, with an indication of a central 
stripe. Back and sides of head, ashy, tinged with greenish on rump. 
Wings, brown, with the edges of the feathers lighter. Throat and su- 
perciliary stripe, sulphur yellow. Narrow line through cheeks and 
maxillary stripe, chestnut as in the crown. Remaining under portions, 
paler yellow than the throat, with narrow stripes of dusky across the 
breast; abdomen, lighter, but the under tail coverts are yellow. Tail, 
dark brown, having the two outer feathers spotted with white, ter- 
minally. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
The nearest ally to this species, is D. palmarum, from which it dif- 
fers in the purer colors beneath, absence of streakings on the sides, and 
presence of the two stripes on the sides of the head; it is true that in 
the Yellow Redpoll there is an indication of a maxillary stripe of chest- 
nut in some specimens, but I have never seen it as extended as in this 
new species. But even if this stripe were common to both birds the 
other characters given would be sufficient to separate them. There are 
no other species of Warblers with which Dendroeca ignota can be con- 
founded. 
The specimen described, the only one in the collection, was labeled 
“Hamstead, St. Andrews, April 4th., -79. J. Goodlet.” The type re- 
mains in the museum at Kingston. 
