Todd: The Birds of the Isle of Pines. 261 



A bird shot December 5 presents a curious case of asymmetrical 

 development. It is a male in first winter plumage, in which the remiges 

 and rectrices on one side are marked with pale orange, as in the adult, 

 while the corresponding markings on the other side are yellow, as is 

 normal at this stage. 



The Redstart is very common as a winter resident throughout the 

 island. Although Gundlach says that in Cuba it is one of the first 

 species to arrive in the fall migration, it so happens that the earliest 

 records for that season in the Isle of Pines are all in October (October 

 16, 1909; October 11, 1910; October 8, 1912). In the spring of 1913 

 it was observed at Siguanea up to April 25. Its haunts and habits 

 in its winter home are very similar to those in summer, except that it 

 has no song. It seemed to be particularly fond of the mangrove- 

 growths along the Los Indios and IMajagua Rivers, while in the vicinity 

 of Nue^•a Gerona it frequented the bushy thickets on the sides of the 

 Caballos Mountains. 



116. Geothlypis trichas trichas (Linnaeus). Maryland Yellow- 

 throat. 



Sylvia Irichas Poey, Mem. Hist. Nat. Cuba, 1854, 426 (Nueva Gerona, fide Gund- 

 lach). 



Geothlypis trichas Cory, Cat. W. Indian Birds, 1892, 119 (I. of Pines, in geog. 

 distr.). — Gundlach, Orn. Cubana, 1895, 73 (I. of Pines). — Bangs & Zappey, 

 Am. Nat., XXXIX, 1905, 210 (I. of Pines, ex Poey; crit.). — Read, Oologist, 

 XXVIII, 1911, 12 (I. of Pines). 



"Maryland Yellow-throat" Re.ad, Forest and Stream, LXXIII, 1909, 452 (I. of 

 Pines, December). — Read, Oologist, XXVI, 1909, 58, 75 (I. of Pines); XXVII, 

 1910, 5 (Nuevas River), 15 (I. of Pines; migr.). 



"Florida Yellow-throat" Read, Oologist, XXVII, 1910, 84 (McKinley to Nueva 

 Gerona); XXVIII, 1911, 7 (I. of Pines, October i), 113 (West McKinley, 

 winter); XXX, 1913, 123 (McKinley), 127 (Santa Barbara), 130 (I. of Pines, 

 winter). — Read, I. of Pines News, VI, Feb. 14, 1914 (I. of Pines). 



Geothlypis trichas ignota (not of Chapman) Read, Bird-Lore, XIII, 1911, 44 (Mc- 

 Kinley); XVI, 1914, 50 (Santa Barbara). 



Twelve specimens: Majagua River, Los Indios, Bibijagua, and 

 Nueva Gerona. 



After careful comparison of the adult birds of this series I refer 

 them all without hesitation to true trichas, and not to ignota, to which 

 Messrs. Bangs and Zappey intimate the Isle of Pines birds may prove 

 to belong, since a series of Yellow-throats from western Cuba were 

 so identified by Mr. Ridgway. The color of the flanks is a little 



