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rior portion of sides, clear canary or light lemon yellow, the auricular 

 region slighty tinged with olive-green; a distinct orbital ring of rather 

 lighter yellow; abdomen white or yellowish white, the flanks and pos- 

 terior portion of sides olive-grayish; under tail-coverts light grayish; 

 axillars and under wing-coverts white, tinged with yellow; maxilla 

 dusky with paler tomia, mandible paler (light grayish blue in life?); 

 iris brown?; legs and feet grayish dusky (light grayish blue in life?). 



Adult male.— hength (skins), 118-125 (120.7); wing, 55-59.5 (56.5); 

 tail, 52-55 (53.2); exposed culmen, 12-12.5 (12.4); tarsus, 18-20 (19); 

 middle toe, 12.' 



Adult fe?nale.— Length (skins), 112-118 (115); wing, 56-58 (57); tall, 

 52-55 (53.5); exposed culmen, 12; tarsus, 18-19.5 (18.7); middle toe, 

 11-11.5 (11. 2).' 



Eastern Cuba. 



Teretistris fornsi Gundlach, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., vi, 1858, 274 (eastern 

 portion of Cuba); Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 326; 1862, 177; 1872, 418; Repert. 

 Fisico-Nat. Cuba, i, 1865, 236. — Albrecht Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 211.— 

 Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 45; Birds W. I., 1889, 59; Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 18, 

 119 (e. Cuba).— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit Mus. x, 1885, 368, pi. 12, fig. 2 

 (Monte Verde, Cuba). 



[Teretistris'\ fornsi Cory, List Birds W. I., 1885, 9. 



Teretistris fornsii Cory, Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 129. 



Teretristis fornsii Baird, Review Am. Birds, 1865, 235 (Monte Verde, e. Cuba). 



[Teretristisl fornsi Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr. 1873 11. 



[ideria'] fornsii Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 384, no. 5826. 



IGeothlypis'] fornsi Palmer (W.), Auk, xvii, July, 1900, 217. 



Genus LEUCOPEZA Sclater. 



Leucopeza Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., Jan. 4, 1876, 14. (Type, L. semperi 

 Sclater. ) 



Terrestrial or subterrestrial Mniotiltid^ with bill nearly as long as 

 head; tarsus more than one-third as long as wing; tail much shorter 

 than wing, nuich rounded; coloration very plain — brownish gray 

 above, pale gray or grayish white beneath. 



Bill nearly as long as head, moderately slender, gradually tapering 

 both laterally and vertically, the culmen straight to near tip where 

 gradually and slightly decurved; maxillary tomium with subterminal 

 notch rather distinct. Rictal bristles obsolete. Wing moderate; 

 eighth, seventh, and sixth primaries longest, ninth longer than third; 

 wing-tip about equal to distance from nostril to tip of maxilla. Tail 

 shorter than distance from bend of wing to tips of secondaries, much 

 rounded (graduation less than length of gonys), the rectrices broad 

 and rather soft. Tarsus more than one-third as long as wing, much 

 longer than middle toe with claw; basal phalanx of middle toe united 

 for slightly more than half its length to outer toe, for slightly less 

 than half to inner toe. 



' Four specimens. 



