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tail, 47-53 (52.1); exposed culmen, 12.5-15.5 (14.4); depth of bill at 

 nostrils, 4-5 (4.6); tarsus. 17-19 (18.2); middle toe, 10-11.5 (10. 9). « 



Bahamas (islands of Abaco, Biminis, New Providence, Andros, Sa- 

 mana Caj^); Cuba (including Isle of Pines); Little Ca^nnan (near 

 Cuba); southern Florida (Key West, Dr}^ Tortugas, Ten Thousand 

 Islands, PuntaRassa, Charlotte Harbor, Tarpon Springs, Tampa, etc.), 

 as far north on Gulf coast as Anclote Keys. 



Vireo gilvus (not of Yieillot) D'Orbigny, in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois., 



1839, 43. 

 Vireo longirostris (not of Swainson) Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., 2d ed., 



i, 1840, 359. 

 Vireo aUiloquus (not 3fusricapa ahilogiia Vieillot) Gambel, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 



Philad., 1848, 127 (Florida).— B a ied. Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 334, 



part (coasts. Florida); Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 243. 

 VireosyhiaaUilofJHa Cassis, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Philad., 1851, 152 (Florida); Illustr. 



Birds Cal., Tex., etc., 1854, 8, 221, part, pi. 37 (Florida).— Bryant, Proc. 



Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1859, 113 (New Providence, Bahamas). — Lawrence, 



Ann. Lye. N. Y., vii, 1860, 266 (Cuba; crit.). — Albrecht, Journ. fiir Orn., 



1861, 206 (Cuba). 

 Vireosylva altiloqua Baird, in Stansbury's Rep. (it. Salt Lake, 1852, 328 (Florida). 

 Vireo {Vireosylva) aUiloquus Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, p. "xxxxv" 



(=xxxv). 

 Vireo olivaceus (not Muscicajm olivacea Linnseus) Thienemann, Journ. fiir Orn., 



1857, 147 (Cuba; descr. eggs). 

 PJiyllnmaties harbatulus Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., iii, Nov., 1855, 467 (Cuba; coll. 



Berlin Mus. ?).— Gundlach, Journ. fur Orn., 1861, 324 (Cuba); 1872, 401 



(do.).— Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1860, 307 (Cuba). 

 Vireosylvia barbatula Baird, Review Am. Birds, May, 1866, 331 (Cuba; Bahamas; 



Charlotte Harbor, Florida). — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 



Birds, i, 1874, pi. 17, fig. 1. 

 Vireosylvia calidris, var. barhatulus Baikd, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 



Birds, i, 1874, 360. 

 Vireosylvia calidris barbalida Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, Aug. 24, 1880, 



174, 231; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 137. 

 \_Vireo'] calidris barbcdula Cory, List Birds W. I., 1885, 10. 



« Seventeen specimens. 



Locality. 



MALES. 



Ten adult males from Cuba 



Ten adult males from Bahamas 



Four adult males from southern Florida 



FEMALES. 



Ten adult females from Cuba 



Seven adult females from Bahamas 



Ex- 

 posed 

 culmen. 



15.2 



15 



14.4 



14.4 

 14.5 



Depth 

 of bill 

 at nos- 

 trils. 



4.5 

 4.9 

 4.7 



4.6 

 4.7 



18.6 

 18.3 

 18.6 



18.1 

 18.3 



Middle 

 toe. 



10.7 

 11.1 

 11.4 



10.9 

 11 



While, as a rule, specimens from the Bahamas and southern Florida are slightly 

 paler than those from Cuba, the difference is too slight and inconstant to warrant 

 separation. 



