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Gundlach says that the White-eyed Vireo is rare in Cuba, where it 

 occurs as a winter visitor. Under such circumstances Mr. Link's 

 records, referring to single individuals killed at Caleta Grande on 

 November 27, and at Nueva Gerona on February 26, are of especial 

 interest, as going to show that the species has a similar seasonal status 

 in the Isle of Pines also. Mr. Read claims to have observed it at 

 Santa Barbara on December 13, 1912. 



Lanivireo flavifrons (Viellot). Yellow-throated Vireo. 



(?) "Yellow-throated Vireo" Read, Forest and Stream, LXXIII, 1909, 452 (I. of 



Pines, May 8). — Read, Oologist, XXVI, 1909, 102, and XXX, 1913, 131 (I. of 



Pines); XXVIII, 1911, 113 (West McKinley). — Read, I. of Pines News, VI, 



Feb. 14, 1914 (I. of Pines). 

 (?) Vireo flavifrons Read, Oologist, XXVIII, 1911, 12 (I. of Pines). 



The Yellow-throated Vireo is of merely casual appearance in the West Indies, 

 migrating as it does through Mexico and Central America, so that Mr. Read's 

 records above quoted, all apparently referring to a single individual noted May 8, 

 1909, cannot be received with that degree of confidence necessary to assure the 

 species a place on the list. 



III. Vireosylva calidris barbatula (Cabanis). Black- whiskered 

 Vireo. 



Vireo calidris barbalidus Cory, Cat. W. Indian Birds, 1892, 115 (I. of Pines, in 

 geog. distr.). — Read, Oologist, XXVIII, 1911, 12 (I. of Pines). 



Vireosylvia barbatula Gundlach, Orn. Cubana, 1895, 41 (I. of Pines). 



Vireosylva calidris barbatula Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, III, 1904, 

 141 (I. of Pines, in geog. distr.).- — Bangs & Zappey, Am. Nat., XXXIX, 1905, 

 209 (Jucaro, Cayo Bonito, and Santa Fe). 



"Black-whiskered Vireo" Read, Forest and Stream, LXXIII, 1909, 452 (I. of 

 Pines).— Read, Oologist, XXVI, 1909, 75 (I. of Pines); XXVII, 1910, 42 (I. of 

 Pines; nesting), 84 (Los Tres Hermanos Mountains); XXVIII, 191 1, 7 (I. of 

 Pines), II (Nuevas River), 113 (West McKinley); XXX, 1913, 125 (Santa 

 Barbara; migr. ; habits), 131 (I. of Pines; migr.). — Read, I. of Pines News, VI, 

 Feb. 14, 1914 (I. of Pines). 



Ten specimens: Nueva Gerona. 



These are precisely like Bahaman specimens. V. c. barbatula 

 differs from V. c. calidris, in addition to the characters usually recog- 

 nized, in having the under tail-coverts paler yellow. 



A summer resident, arriving about the middle of March, and 

 remaining until October, although according to Mr. Read a few 

 stragglers may stay through the dry season. It is a common inhabi- 

 tant of the low thickets and jungles, where its song, which is a sweet 

 warble not unlike that of the Red-eyed species, is a constant reminder 



