252 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



104. Dumetella carolinensis (Linnaeus). Catbird. 



Turdus carolinensis Poey, Mem. Hist. Nat. Cuba, 1854, 426 (Nueva Gerona, fide 

 Gundlach). 



Galeoscoptes carolinensis Cory, Cat. W. Indian Birds, 1892, 121 (I. of Pines, in 

 geog. distr.). — Gundlach, Orn. Cubana, 1893, 51 (I. of Pines). — Bangs & 

 Zappey, Am. Nat., XXXIX, 1905, 207 (I. of Pines; Poey's, Cory's, and Gund- 

 lach's records). — Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, IV, 1907, 218 (I. of 

 Pines, in geog. distr.). — Read, Oologist, XXVIII, 191 1, 12 (I. of Pines). 



"Catbird" Read, Forest and Stream, LXXIII, 1909, 452 (I. of Pines, December) 

 — Read, Oologist, XXVI, 1909, 58 (I. of Pines); XXVII, 1910, 15. and XXVIII, 

 1911, 7 (I. of Pines; migr.), 118 (West McKinley); XXX, 1913, 123 (McKinley), 

 130 (I. of Pines, winter). 



Two specimens: Caleta Grande and Los Indies. 



A common winter resident, arriving from the north, according to 

 Mr. Read, in October (October 16, 1909; October 27, 1910) or even 

 earlier (September 19, 1913), and remaining until May at least. Mr. 

 Link saw a few near Nueva Gerona the middle of May, while a 

 straggler was noted at Pasadita as late as May 25 — a date when the 

 bird has eggs in Pennsylvania. I\Ir. Read writes that he saw flocks of 

 twenty-five or thirty birds on April 17, 1915, these being the first 

 migrating flocks noticed that season. During its winter sojourn in 

 the island it inhabits the same general kind of situations as in its 

 summer home — bushy thickets, where it keeps well concealed, although 

 its presence is usually revealed by its characteristic notes, uttered 

 when its haunts are invaded. Its spring song was not heard at any 

 time. 



105. Myadestes elisabeth (Lembeye). Cuban Solitaire. 



Myiadestes elisabeth Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1856, 2 (I. of Pines [error; cf. 



Gundlach, Journ. fur Orn., 1872, 429, and Stejneger, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 



V, 1882, 27]). — Cory, Cat. W. Indian Birds, 1892, 122 (I. of Pines, in geog. 



distr. [error]). — Gundlach, Orn. Cubana, 1895, 89 (no valid record from I. of 



Pines). 

 Myiadestes elisabeth relrusus Bangs & Zappey, Am. Nat., XXXIX, 1905, 208 



(Pasadita; orig. descr. ; type now in Mus. Comp. Zool.; habits). — Allen, Auk, 



XXII, 1905, 329, in text (review). — Editors, Ibis, 1905, 631, in text (review; 



crit.). — RmGWAY, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, IV, 1907, 173 (I. of Pines; 



descr.; syn.). 



Mr. Charles T. Ramsden has sent me a small but very interesting 

 series of Myadestes elisabeth from eastern Cuba, which I have been 

 able to compare directly with the type and only known specimen of 

 the alleged subspecies retrusus. Three of these Cuban specimens are 



