182 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Although not so common in the Isle of Pines as the Little Blue 

 Heron, this bird is still fairly numerous. It is seldom found away 

 from the salt and brackish waters of the coastal lagoons and the 

 lower courses of the rivers, where it may often be found in company 

 with the Little Blue Heron. Mr. Zappey secured a single specimen 

 in the Cienaga, but the species was observed there by Mr. Link only 

 at its western end, near Siguanea. No nests were found, but it prob- 

 ably breeds in May, as does the Little Blue Heron. 



1 8. Butorides virescens cubanus Oberholser. Cuban Green Heron. 



Ardea virescens (not of Linnaeus) Poey, Mem. Hist. Nat. Cuba, 1854, 427 (Nueva 



Gerona, fide Gundlach). 

 Butorides virescens maculata (not of Boddaert) Bangs & Zappey, Am. Nat., 



XXXIX, 1905, 188 (Bibijagua and Santa Fe; crit.). — Thayer & Bangs, Bull. 



Mus. Comp. Zool., XL VI, 1905, 142 (Bibijagua and Santa Fe; meas.; crit.). — 



Read, Bird-Lore, XIII, 1911, 44 (McKinley). — Read, Oologist, XXVIII, 1911, 



II, and XXX, 1913, 132 (I. of Pines). — Read, I. of Pines News, VI, Dec. 27, 



1913 (I. of Pines, common; descr.). 

 "Green Heron" Read, Forest and Stream, LXXIII, 1909, 452 (I. of Pines). — 



Read, Oologist, XXVI, 1909, 58 (I. of Pines); XXVIII, 1911. 146 (Bibijagua); 



XXX, 1913, 123 (Nuevas River). 

 "Southern Green Heron" Read, Oologist, XXVII, 1910, 5, and XXVIII, 1911, 



6, 10 (Nuevas River), 3 (McKinley), 113 (West McKinley); XXX, 1913, 127 



(Santa Barbara), 130 (I. of Pines). 

 "Little Green Heron" Read, Oologist, XXVIII, 1911, 5 (Santa Barbara Mountain, 



etc.). 

 Butorides virescens cubanus Oberholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XLII, 1912, 557 



(Santa Fe, Bibijagua, and Nueva Gerona; meas.; crit.). 

 Butorides virescens brunescens (not Ardea brunescens Lembeye ?) Bangs, Auk, 



XXXII, 1915, 484, part (I. of Pines; crit.). 



Six specimens: Los Indios, Nueva Gerona, Jacksonville, and Si- 

 guanea. 



M easurements. 



No. Sex. Locality. Wing. Tail. Bill. Tarsus, 



41271^ 9 Jacksonville, I. of Pines 166 61 64 48 



41308^ cf Siguanea, I. of Pines 165 61 64 47 



39054* cf Guayama, Porto Rico 179 61 58 53 



39205* cf Adjuntas, Porto Rico 175 64 54 47 



39305^ 9 Utuado, Porto Rico 164 58 56 45 



286935 (cf ?) Martinique 181 70 61 49' 



28694S (cf'?) Martinique 179 64 56 53 



Eight adult males from eastern U. S., average 179 65 61 51 



* Collection Carnegie Museum. 



5 Collection Museum Comparative Zoology. 



