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JANUARY 13, 1917 Vou. VI, pp. 51-52 
PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
NEW ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL CLUB 
TWO NEW WEST INDIAN BIRDS. 
BY THOMAS BARBOUR AND WINTHROP SPRAGUE BROOKS. 
SINCE the appearance of our Ornithology of Cuba is to be some- 
what postponed, owing to the desirability of obtaining certain 
additional material, we have thought it best to put these two 
descriptions upon record now. 
Todus multicolor exilis subsp. nov. 
Type, no. 67,263, coll. Museum of Comparative Zodlogy, adult male, 
Preston, Nipe Bay, Province of Oriente, Cuba, March 5, 1915, collected 
by J. L. Peters. 
Similar to Todus multicolor multicolor of western Cuba and the Island 
of Pines, but having distinctly lighter blue upon the sides of the neck and 
a considerably more restricted and duller yellow patch at the base of the 
forehead. 
Our series of twenty-six examples of Todus from Cuba and the 
Island of Pines shows that these characters are stable and diag- 
nostic. We cannot, however, as yet point out just that area of 
Cuba in which intergradation occurs between these and other 
races characteristic of the eastern and western parts of the island. 
