256 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



uncommon, however, and has been recorded by Mr. Read on only a 

 few occasions. Mr. Zappey secured a pair at Cayo Bonito on May 3, 

 these being the only ones he saw on his second trip. These examples 

 proved on comparison with Cuban specimens to differ in certain 

 particulars, suggesting that subpecific separation might eventually 

 become necessary. I have been able to compare the present series 

 with a good series of Cuban birds, comprising specimens taken from 

 both the eastern and the western parts of the island. Considerably 

 to my surprise I find that the bird of western Cuba is readily separable 

 from that of the eastern part (Guantanamo and Santiago de Cuba), 

 the Isle of Pines specimens naturally agreeing with the western form, 

 averaging merely a trifle duller. Lembeye {Aves de la Isla de Cuba, 

 1850, 29, pi. 5, fig. i) does not specify an}^ particular type-locality for 

 his Vireo gnndlachii, although he mentions that he first saw the 

 species near Cienfuegos, so that we are doubtless justified in accepting 

 this as the type-locality. No specimens from this point are avail- 

 able, but nine skins from Trinidad, some forty miles to the east- 

 ward, kindly placed at my disposal by Mr. Frank M. Chapman, 

 while obviously intermediate in their characters, seem best referred 

 to the western form. The bird of eastern Cuba I therefore propose 

 to call 



Vireo gundlachii orientalis subsp. nov. 



Type, No. 44,219, Collection Carnegie Museum, adult male; 

 Arroyo Hondo, " Los Cafios," Guantanamo, Cuba, October, 1913; 

 Charles T. Ramsden. 



Suhspecific characters. — Similar to Vireo gimdlachii gundlachii of 

 western Cuba and the Isle of Pines, but general coloration duller; 

 under parts much duller yellow, with more buffy suffusion and dark 

 shading on the sides; lores and postocular spot paler yellow; and upper 

 parts decidedly grayish, less greenish. 



Vireo gundlachii is thus shown to vary precisely as do certain other 

 closely related species, but in this case the variation is strictly cor- 

 related with locality, which is not true with V. carmioli, V. ochraceus, 

 or even V. crassirostris. 



no. Vireo griseus griseus (Boddaert). White-eyed Vireo. 

 Vireo griseus griseus Re.'VD, Bird-Lore, XV, 1913, 45 (Santa Barbara). 

 Two specimens: Caleta Grande and Nueva Gerona. 



