BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 649 



TERETISTRIS FERNANDINiE ( Lembeyc). 

 FERNANDINA'S WARBLER. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Pileum and hindneck uniform yellowish olive- 

 green; lores (except lower portion), orbital ring, malar region, chin, 

 and throat, clear yellow (])etween lemon and canary), the auricular 

 region and .suborbital region, similar but tinged with olive-green; 

 back, scapulars, wing-coverts, tertials, rump, and upper tail-coverts 

 plain gra}" (between slate-gray and mouse gray), the remiges (except 

 tertials) and rectrices darker, with lighter gray edgings; breast pale 

 gray or grayish white, shading into more pronounced gray on sides 

 and flanks; abdomen and anal region yellowish white; luider tail- 

 coverts pale grayish; axillars pale gray or grayish white; under wing- 

 coverts white, those along edge of wing tinged with yellow; maxilla 

 dusky with paler tomia; mandible paler (light bluish gra}^ in life); iris 

 brown; legs and feet grayish black in dried skins, light grayish blue 

 in life/ 



Adult male.—ljength (skins), 120.-i-125.5 (122.2); wing, .54.1-60.4 

 (58.2); tail, 48.3-51.6 (.50.4); exposed culmen, 12.7-13.2 (12.9); tarsus, 

 18.3-19.3 (19); middle toe, 11.2-11.9 (11. 7).*^ 



Adult femkle.—hengih (skins), 108.2-119.9 (116.1); wing, 53.8-55.4 

 (54.9); tail, 48-51.6 (49.8); exposed culmen, 11.7-12.7 (12.4); tarsus, 

 18.3-19.3 (18.8); middle toe, 10.9-11.4 (11.2).' 



Western Cuba, including Isle of Pines. 



Anabates ferncmd'mx Lembeye, Aves de la Isla de Cuba, 1850, 66, pi. 5, fitr. 2. — 

 GuNDLACH, Journ. Bost. Soc. N. H., vi, 1853, 317 (descr. e^^gs). 



Teret'mtris fernandinx Cabani.s, Journ. fi'ir Orn., iii, Nov., 1855, 475. — Brewek, Proc. 

 Bost. Soc. N. H , vii, 1860, 307.— Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 326; 1872, 

 418; Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, i, 1865, 236.— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 45; Birdn 

 W. I., 1889, .59; C!at. W. I. Birds, 1892, 18, 119, 129 (Cuba; Isle of Pines).— 

 Shaepe, Cat. Bird.s Brit. Mus., x, 1885, .368, pi. 12, fig. 1 (San Cristobal, Cnba). 



\_Teretktris\ fernand'msE Cory, List Birds W. I., 1885, 9. 



Teretristis fernandinse Baird, Review Am. Birds, 1865, 234 (Fermina, w. Cuba). 



[ Tere^n's^is] /(2rnan(^m.T ScLATER and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr. 1873, 11. 



\^Icteria] fernandma; Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 384, no. 5825. 



Helmithertis blanda (not of Lichtenstein, fide Cabanis) Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 

 Apr., 18.50, 314 (Cuba). 



IGeoDdyjjis} fernandina: Valuer (W.), Auk, xvii, July, 1900, 217. 



TERETISTRIS FORNSI Gundlach. 

 FORNS' WARBLER. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Upper parts, including pileum and hindneck, 

 plain gray,* becoming more brownish gray or smoke gra}" on rump and 

 upper tail-coverts; sides of head, chin, throat, chest, breast, and ante- 



^ According to J. H. Riley. ^ Four specimens. 



*Five specimens. ''Between mouse gray and gray no. 6. 



