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This fruit-eating Tanager is easily recognized by the black head, with 

 conspicuous white stripes over the eye and along the side of the head, the 

 rufous-orange collar, rump and chest; the back is olive-green. The female 

 is almost uniform plain olive. 



260. Piranga rubra rubra (Linne). 

 Summer Tanager. 



Seen in small numbers in spring and autumn as they pass over Cuba 

 on migration. I have observed the bird but two or three times. 



261. Piranga erythromelas Vieillot. 

 Scarlet Tanager. 



Neither this species nor the Summer Tanager is known to the natives 

 at all. The Scarlets are sometimes seen in company with the other species, 

 and are always rather more abundant. Both birds pass through Cuba at 

 the same times, usually in September and April. I have seen them only 

 in spring. 



262. Chondestes grammacus grammacus (Say). 

 Lark Sparrow. 



The Lark Sparrow has been taken once at Guantanamo, in 191 1, 

 by Doctor Ramsden (Auk, vol. 29, p. 395, 191 2). 



263. Passerculus sandwichensis savanna (Wilson). 

 Savanna Sparrow. 



The Savanna Sparrow is rare. A few individuals may occasionally be 

 seen during the winter in open pastures or savannas, usually singly. 



