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fields. Unlike the migrants, however, they like retired haunts, and do not 

 hop about the houses, much less enter them — as some of their Northern 

 allies do. The two distinct species of Teretistris never have been observed 

 to intcrgradc, and though the exact limits of their ranges are unknown, it is 

 probable that the following form inhabits Oriente only, and this species 

 the remainder of the Island. In summer they are much more retiring and 

 solitary. They nest from late March to May, sometimes with a small, round 

 nest placed on a horizontal branch, but more often in the pendant Spanish 

 moss called guajaca, a Tillandsia. 



A little, gray warbler, with olive-green back, yellow head and gray 

 belly. The sexes are alike in plumage. 



242. Teretistris fornsi Gundlach. 



Similar in all respects, as to haunts and habits, to the preceding species, 

 but much more circumscribed in distribution, being found only in extreme 

 eastern Cuba. 



A very distinct species this, which differs from the other in having 

 the top of the head gray, not yellowish, and in having the yellow of the 

 throat extended over the belly. 



243. Geothlypis trichas brachidactyla (Swain son). 

 Maryland Yellowthroat; Bijirita. 



Another common winter resident. Found about marshes, in cane- 

 brakes and reed-beds, and in lowland thickets of vines and Uianas. 



244. Wilsonia citrina (Boddaert). 

 Hooded Warbler. 



Gundlach occasionally got a Hooded Warbler, always near water 

 and near the ground. They are very rare, and his records are few: one in a 

 garden in Havana, a few pairs in the mangroves near Cardenas and one on 



