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Mr. P. R. Lowe on Birds collected 
of the young of this species in first plumage are entirely 
white, washed with yellow, so that eight immature birds in 
my series from the Swan Islands would appear to be in an 
intermediate stage between the young in first plumage and 
the adult. 
My two most immature birds are ashy grey above, with a 
slight tinge of greenish yellow on the lower back and upper 
tail-coverts ; lores and superciliary stripe white; sides of 
face dusky, fringed with yellow on the cheeks; throat white; 
fore-neck and entire under surface of body pale yellow. 
The next three are similar to the foregoing, but have the 
lores and superciliary stripe tinged with yellow, as also the 
chin and throat, leaving a more or less white band across 
the lower throat, which separates the yellow on the chin and 
upper throat from that of the breast and remaining portions 
of the under surface. The four remaining examples exhibit 
an increasing amount of yellow on the lores, superciliary 
stripe, and entire under surface of the body. No trace of 
the white band across the throat remains, and they approach 
more nearly to the bright yellow of the adult bird. 
Dendrceca palmarum (Gmelin). 
I shot one or two specimens of this Palm-Warbler for 
identification. It was not so well represented on the islands 
as D. coronata , but is very common on the Cayman Islands. 
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Geothlypis trichas brachydactyla. 
Geothlypis trichas brachidactyla (Swainson). 
I noticed a fair number of these pretty little “ Yellow- 
throats.” Having unfortunately shot only one specimen I 
am not sure that I am justified in referring it to the northern 
form of G. trichas. My specimen, however, seems to be 
identical with one I have in my collection from Eastern 
Mexico. The wing of this bird measures 57 mm. 
I have nine specimens which I collected on the north 
coast of Cuba in February 1907, the wings of which average 
52*5 mm., and I consider that these birds should be referred 
to typical G. trichas trichas ; but Mr. Ridgway ('Birds 
