360 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



along sides and across breast. Bill, .14 deep, .30 long ; wing, 2.85 ; 



tail, 2.05. Hab. Eastern Province of United States . var. gilvus. 



Similar, but above more grayish, and beneath with the buff tinge 

 almost absent. Bill, .11 deep, and .22 long; wing, 2.80; tail, 2.15. 

 Hab. Western Province of United States . . var. a w ainso n i. 



b. Crown very different from the back (dark brown). 



Above olive-brown ; rump more virescent ; crown dark snufl- 

 brown. Beneath uniform light yellow, throat whitish. Bill, .15 

 deep, .30 long ; wing, 2. GO ; tail, 2.10. Hab. Middle America, from 

 Ecuador to Honduras \av. jo sep h cf} 



Vireosylvia calidris, var. barbatulus, Baird. 



FLOKIDA GREENLET. 



Phyllomanes barbatulus, CXB. Jour. Ill, 1855, 467 (Cuba). — Gundlach, Cab. Jour. 1861, 

 324 (Cuba). — • Is. Repertorio, Cuba, 1865. Vireosylvia barbatula, Baird, Rev. Am. 

 B. 1864, 3-31. Vireo altiloquus, Gambel, Pr. A. N. Sc. 1848, 127 (Florida). — Baird, 

 Birds N. Am. 1858, 354 (Florida). Vireosylvia altiloqua, Cassin, Pr. A. N. Sc. 1851, 

 152. —lb. lUust. 1854, 8, and 221, pi. xxxvii (Florida). —Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Y, 

 1859, 113 (Bahamas). — Lawren'CE, Ami. N. Y. Lye. 1860 (Cuba). 



Sp. Char. (No. 25,958 (J, Cuba.) Proportion of quills as in var. calidris, 2 =3, 4, 1, 5, 

 but the tips of the quills closer together, and the first quill about lialf or a little less 



than half the distance between fifth 

 and fourth ; the quills narrower. 



Colors similar to those of var. calidris, 

 but of a purer and paler olive above ; 

 the back tinged with ash ; the cap 

 purer ash, an<i better defined, without 

 olivaceous wash, its dusky edge more 

 distinct. The superciliary stripe whit- 

 ish or grayish, with the cheeks paler, 

 and Ijoth, as well as the chin, with- 

 out the buff tinge. Under parts nearly pure white, very faintly tinged across the breast 

 with ashy ; the sides olivaceous ; the crissum and axillars pale sulphur-yellow. Total 

 length, 5.50; wing, 3.15; tail, 2.50; difference of first and second quills, .18; of fifth 

 and second, .22 ; length of bill from forehead, .82, from nostril, .46, along gape, .89 ; tarsus, 

 72 ; middle toe and claw, .GO; claw alone, .21 ; hind toe and claw, .50 ; claw alone, .23. 

 Hab. Cuba ; the Bahamas ; and Charlotte Harbor, Florida. (Western Coast.) 



This Vireo has been taken several times at Charlotte Harbor, in Florida, 



1 V. (jilva var. josephce. Vireosylvia josephce, Bauid, Rev. 1865, 344 (Vireo josejjJice, Sclater, 

 V. Z. S. 1859, 137, pi. cliv). Comparing typical examples of this "species" with those of 

 (filvus from North America, they appear very widel)' different indeed, so far as coloration is 

 concerned, though nearly identical in form. But a specimen from an intermediate locality 

 (54,262, Orizaba, Mexico, F. Sumiciirast) combines so perfectly all the characters of the two, 

 that it would be impossible to refer it to one or the other as distinct species. It therefore 

 becomes necessary to assume that the V. josephcB is a permanently resident tropical race of a 

 species of which V. gilviis is the northern representative ; which theory is strengthened by the 

 fact that of the latter there are no spechnens found south of the United States, indicating that 

 in winter it does not pass beyond their limit, or at least not far to the southward. 



Vireosylvia barbatulus. 



