294 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
There are no records for St. Vincent or for Grenada, bat it is 
probably an annual visitor in small numbers, as it has been recorded 
from practically all of the other Lesser Antilles. 
Dendroica striata (Forster). Swamp Sparrow ; Black-poll 
VV arbler.— One example was obtained by Col. Feilden on October 
20, 1888. He saw others, however, and considers it a regular winter 
visitor to Barbados. It has never been taken on St. Vincent or 
on Grenada. 
Dendroica ruficapilla (Gmel.). Yellow-bird. — The sub¬ 
species of this form, D. r. ruficapilla (Guadeloupe and Dominica), 
D. r. rufivertex (Cozumel Island), D. r.flamda (St. Andrew’s) and 
I). r. rufopileata (Curasao), appear all to fall within the range of 
individual variation, if we can judge from the great differences 
exhibited by a series of sixteen specimens of the closely related D. 
capitalis of Barbados. The only specimen from Cozumel Island 
which I have been able to examine, as well as three specimens from 
Dominica (two kindly loaned by Dr. Louis B. Bishop) are insepara¬ 
ble from Grenadine examples. 
This bird is rare on Grenada and rather shy, frequenting the man¬ 
groves about the swamps on the windward side of the island. At 
Carriacou it occurs rarely in the swamps at Harvey Vale. On 
Prune Island it is abundant in a swamp near the northern shore, 
and is common at other points on the leeward coast. On Union 
Island it is found in an extensive mangrove swamp near Ashton, and 
I have heard it in a swamp near Bloody Bay in the northern part of 
the island. 
In habits it resembles D. aestiva , but its song is less varied. It 
is almost never seen outside of the mangrove swamps. 
Note. — Mr. Ridgway gives (Birds No. and Middle Amer., vol. 2, p. 510, 
1902) Dendroica aestiva as being unquestionably recorded from Grenada. I 
have examined the specimen upon which he based the statement, and find it 
absolutely indistinguishable both from D. aestiva and from D. ruficapilla in 
the same state of plumage. It is an immature male. As Mr. Ridgway at the 
time he wrote, was unaware of the occurrence of a resident Yellow Warbler on 
Grenada, and there is no way of telling which the bird really is, I have 
thought it best to regard it as an example of the local resident form. 
Dendroica capitalis (Lawr.). Yellow-bird; Yellow-ham¬ 
mer. — This bird is common on Barbados, especially about pastures 
