BIRDS OF CUBA II3 



218. Helmitheros vermivorus (Gmelin). 

 Worm-eating Warbler. 



The Worm-eating Warbler Is rather common, and is one of the species 

 that visit Cuba every winter and associate during their sojourn with the 

 native species of Teretistris. It climbs about vines and among the hanging, 

 dead palm leaves, in little traveling companies. It is reported very rare 

 in Oriente. 



219. Protonotaria citrea (Boddaert). 

 Prothonotary Warbler. 



Observed by Gundlach a few times, always in April. A very rare and 

 irregular vagrant. 



220. Vermivora bachmanii (Audubon). 

 Bachman's Warbler. 



Gundlach writes, "During the first years of my residence in Cuba 

 I lived on a coffee plantation near the Rio Canimar (near A^atanzas), and 

 later near Cardenas and at various places. I have killed several pairs 

 of this species in majagua trees, into whose flowers they stick their bill 

 for small insects and nectar. Since the cutting down of the majaguales'^ I 

 have seen no more of the birds." 



' The termination al signifies 'a place full of.' Thus majagua, a certain malvaceous tree, — majagual, 

 a grove of majagua trees; Platano, a banana — platanal, a banana plantation. 



