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Both examples are in perfi-etlN fresh ])luiiuige, even the Ahaco 

 specimen, allhoiiiih taken so hue in the season as Ajiril 28, showing 

 no sign of wear or facHni^, as ch) l)ir(ls lakt'n in the United States at 

 this si'asdH. 



50. Margarops fuscatus fuscatus (XieiUot). 



Thirteen specimens: Great Inagna (Alfred Sound); Watlintis Island. 

 "Iris pale straw-color; bill and feet light brownish horn." 

 The white edgings to the tertials, so conspicuous in fresh-plumaged 

 birds, such as those from Great Inagua in the present series, are very- 

 evanescent, and are soon lost by wear, having almost disapi)eared 

 in the specimens from Watlings Island. 



51. Mimocichla plumbea (Linna>us). 



Tweh-e specimens: New Providence (Blue Hills); Abaco (Sand 

 Bank). 



Individuals in first nui)tial plumage may be readily distinguished 

 by the worn and brownish primaries, secondaries, and primary- 

 coverts, in contrast with the fresher wing-coverts, tertials, and body- 

 plumage, indicating a prenuptial moult involving these parts. The 

 rectrices are possibh- also affected, as they are much fresher in 

 some sjiecimens than in others. 



52. Polioptila caerulea caerulea (Linnaus). 



Fourteen specimens: New Providence (Blue Hills); Great Inagua 

 (Alfred Sound, Alathewtown) ; Abaco (Sand Bank, Spencer's Point). 



After very careful critical study of an ample and comparable series 

 of specimens of most excellent quality, I confess my inability to 

 discriminate the supposed subspecies "ccesiogasier." It is quite true 

 that the examples from New^ Providence and Great Inagua may repre- 

 sent winter migrants from the ITnited States, but this cannot be said of 

 the six specimens from Abaco, one of which is marked as a breeding 

 bird which would have laid within a few days. These Abaco speci- 

 mens do not differ in any perceptible respect (allowing, of course, for 

 their slightly more worn condition) from the rest of the series, nor 

 from birds from Florida and Pennsylvania, unless it is considered 

 that a wing-measurement averaging two millimeters less is a difference 

 of subspecific value. It is therefore necessary to reduce P. c. ccesio- 

 gaster to a synonym of P. c. cccnilea. 



The Great Inagua specimens show more or less feather-renewal 

 about the head and throat, which is of course to be considered as a 

 prenuptial moult. 



