New World Warblers (Parulidae)

Plumbeous Warbler (Dendroica plumbea) - HBW 15, p. 760

French: Paruline caféiette German: Grauwaldsänger Spanish: Reinita Plúmbea

Taxonomy: Dendroeca [sic] plumbea Lawrence, 1877, Dominica.
Forms a superspecies with D. pharetra and D. angelae. Birds from Guadeloupe, supposedly on average darker above and sometimes faintly mottled darker on throat and breast, proposed as a geographical race, guadeloupensis, but considered inseparable from birds elsewhere in species' range; recent study found relatively little genetic variation among populations. Monotypic.

Distribution: Guadeloupe, Terre de Haut, Marie-Galante and Dominica, in Lesser Antilles.