360 



NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



along sides and across breast. Bill, .14 deep, .30 long ; wing, 2.S5 ; 

 tail, 2.05. Hab. Eastern Province of United Slates . var. i/ilvu.i. 



Similar, but above more grayish, and beneath with the buflf tinge 

 almost absent. Bill, .11 deep, and .22 long ; wing, 2.80 ; tail, 2.15. 

 Hab. Western Province oC United States . . va.r. siv a in so n i. 



h. Crown very diffei'ent from the back (dark brown). 



Above olive-brown; rump more viresccnt; crown dark snuff- 

 brown. Beneath uniform light yellow, throat whitish. Bill, .15 

 deep, .,30 long ; wing, 2.60 ; tail, 2.10. Hah. Middle America, from 

 Ecuador to Honduras \ai: jo seji he:' 



Vireosylvia calidris, \ar barbatulus, r.xmn. 



FLORIDA GEEENLET. 



Phtjllomanesbarbatuhts,C\u. Jom. HI, 1855, 467 (Cuba), — GrNi>i,.\c-H, Cab. .lour. 1S61, 

 324 (Cuba). — Ib. Kcpcrtorio, Cuba, 1865. Vireosi/lvia barbatula, liAiUD, lii-v. Am, 

 U, 1864, 331. Vireo altiloquxis, Ga.mbf.i., Pr. A. N. Sc. 1848, 127 (Florida). — Baird, 

 Birds N. Am. 1858, 354 (Florida). Fireoxi/lvia aUiloqiui, Cassin, Pr, A, N. Sc. 1851, 

 152. — Ib. lUnst. 1854, 8, and 221, pi. x.\.\vii (Florida). — Brya.nt, Pr. Bost. Soc. V, 

 1859, 11,3 (Bahamas). — Lawuence, Ann. N. Y. Lye, 1S60 (Cuba). 



Sp. Char. (No. 25,958 ^, Cuba.) Proportion of quills as in var. rnlichis, 2 =» 3, 4, 1, 5, 

 but the tips of the quills closer together, and tlie lirst quill about half or a little less 



than half the distance between fifth 

 and fourth ; the quills narrower. 



Colors similar to those of var. calidris, 

 but of a purer and paler olive above ; 

 the back tinged with ash ; the cap 

 purer ash, and better defined, witliout 

 olivaceous wash, its dusky ed.<;e more 

 distinct. The superciliary stripe whit- 

 ish or grayish, with the cheeks paler, 

 and both, <as well as the chin, with- 

 out the buff tinge. Under parts nearly pure white, v<'ry faintly tinged at^ross the breast 

 witli ashy ; the sides olivaceous ; the crissnm and axillars pale sulphur-yellow. Total 

 length, 5.50; wing, 3.15; tail, 2.50; dilTercnce of first and second quills, .18; of fifth 

 and second, .22 ; length of bill from forehead, .82, from nostril, .46, along gape, .89 ; tarsus, 

 72 ; middle toe and claw, .60; claw alone, .21 ; hind toe and claw, .50 ; claw alone, .23. 

 Hab. Cuba; the Bahamas; and Charlotte Harbor, Florida. (Western Coast.) 



Vireosylvia bnrhntultis. 



Thi.s Viiru has been taken several times at Charlotte Harl 



Fhirida, 



' F. gilva var. josephce. Virmsyhnn joscpha:, Baiiid, Kcv, 1865, 344 {Vireo joscjihm, Sclateu, 

 P, Z, S, 1859, 137, 1>1. cliv). Comparing typical examples of this "species" with those of 

 gilvu.i from North America, tliey ajipcar very widely different indeed, so far a.s coloration is 

 concerned, though nearly identical in form. But a specimen from an intermediate locality 

 (54,262, Orizaba, Mexico, F. Sumiohuast) combines so perfectly all the characters of the two, 

 that it would be impossible to refer it to one or the other as distinct species. It therefore 

 becomes necessary to assume that the V. joscpjite is a permanently resident troincal race of a 

 species of which V. gilmis is the northern rejire.sentativp ; which theory is strengtlu'ued by the 

 fact that of the latter there are no sjiecimens found south of the Uniteil States, indicating that 

 in winter it docs not pass beyond theii' linut, or at least not far to the smuliward, 



