ART. 2 BIEDS COLLECTED IN CUBA AND HAITI WETMORE 33 



The single specimen from Navassa Island, an adult male in fresh 

 plumage, is similar in color to the birds of Haiti proper. 



It will be recalled that Bangs and Penard ^° have shown that the 

 specific name olivaceus long current for the red-eyed vireo of eastern 

 North America must apply to the Jamaican vireo, formerly known 

 as Vireo caUdris. 



VIREO OLIVACEUS BARBATULA (Cabanis) 



Black-whiskered Vireo 



Phyllomanefi barbatulus Cabanis, Juuin. fiir Oni., 1855, p. 467 (Cuba). 



Males of this form were secured on Gonave Island on March 21, 

 and on lie a Vache on April 30. These are the first records of this 

 subspecies from Hispaniola, the form being one that nests in the 

 Bahamas, Cuba, and southern Florida. The two specimens obtained 

 are considered migrants en route to their breeding range. It may 

 be expected as a regular migrant in Haiti, and probably in the Do- 

 minican Republic. 



This form differs from the resident Jamaican vireo in the paler, 

 less buffy superciliary stripe and auricular region, grayer crown, 

 duller olive-green of the back, and purer white throat and chest. 



Family COEREBIDAE, Honey-creepers 



COEREBA BANANIVORA BANANIVORA (Gmelin) 

 HiSPANIOLAN HONEY-CBEEPEB 



MotaeiUa bananivora Gmelin, Syst. Nat., vol. 1, pt. 2, 1789, p. 951 (Hispaniola). 



Specimens collected come from the following localities: Western 

 end of Gonave Island, March 21; Baraderes Peninsula, April 8; 

 Petite Cayemite Island, April 12 and 14; Bug Island, near Corail, 

 April 18; lie a Vache, April 27 and 30 and May 2. Birds from 

 Petite Cayemite Island and from lie a Vache appear identical with 

 those of the main island. 



Family COMPSOTHLYPIDAE, Wood Warblers 



MNIOTILTA VARIA (Linnaeus) 

 Bi^cK ANU White Warbler 



Motacilla varia Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, vol. 1, 1766, p. 333 (Hispaniola). 



Males were shot 4 miles east of Gibara, Cuba, on February 21 and 

 near the mouth of the Moa River on March 6. In Haiti one was 

 taken on April 7 on the Baraderes Peninsula, and a female was 

 obtained on lie a Vache on May 6. The last-mentioned date is a late 

 occurrence for this migrant from the north. 



" Bun. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 67, 11>1.'5, pp. 205-206. 

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