lOO MEMOIRS OF THE NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB 



182. Blacicus caribaeus caribaeus (d'Orbigny). 



BOBITO. 



What I said regarding another foolish little bird, the Myiarchus, 

 applies equally to this Bobito. Similar habits have given it the same name, 

 and no peasant in Cuba knows that there are two different species included. 

 Equally common, alike in habits and rather so in appearance, only some- 

 what smaller, a remarkable difference is to be seen in nidification. This 

 Bobito creeps into no dingy hole to lay, but builds a dainty structure of 

 vegetable wool, covered with lichens, which, except that it is larger, 

 might easily be mistaken for the finished product of some Hummer's 

 skill. 



Birds from eastern and western Cuba are alike; those from the Isle 

 of Pines are a very little smaller, but not recognizable as a distinct race. 

 The Bahaman bird represents a valid subspecies, being slightly larger and 

 more ashy in color. 



183. Myiochanes virens (Linne). 

 Wood Pewee. 



Another rare straggler which Gundlach occasionally observed in 

 October or April. 



184. Sayornis phoebe (Latham). 

 Phoebe. 



Gundlach once killed an immature Phoebe (February, 1846) and, not 

 being familiar with the species at that time and not knowing that the 

 individual was a straggler, he named it Aulanax lemheyei. The type of this 

 name is in his mounted collection in Havana. 



