250 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



to Mr. Link's experience it is by no means confined to such situations, 

 being apt to occur in almost any kind of woods, where it is not swampy. 

 Near the mouth of the Majagua River, as well as on Cayo Frances, it 

 was even found in the mangroves, while at Los Indios it frequented 

 the same dense thicket where the Cuban Wood Pewee was so much in 

 evidence. Until now no nests appear to have been discovered in the 

 Isle of Pines. 



loi. Blacicus caribaeus (D'Orbigny). Cuban Wood Pewee. 



Muscipeta caribcea Poey, Mem. Hist. Nat. Cuba, 1854, 426 (Nueva Gerona, fide 

 Gundlach). 



Blacicus caribcEus Cory, Cat. W. Indian Birds, 1892, 109 (I. of Pines, in geog. 

 distr.). — Gundlach, Orn. Cubana, 1895, 87 (I. of Pines). — Bangs & Zappey, 

 Am. Nat., XXXIX, 1905, 207 (San Juan and Santa Fe). — Ridgway, Bull. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., No. 50, IV, 1907, 533 (San Juan and Santa Fe, ex Bangs and Zappey; 

 meas.; crit.). — Read, Oologist, XXVIII, 1911, 9, 12 (I.^ of Pines; habits). — 

 Read, Bird-Lore, XIII, 1911, 44 (McKinley); XV, 1913, 45, and XVI, 1914, 

 50 (Santa Barbara). 



"Cuban Wood Pewee" Read, Forest and Stream, LXXIII, 1909, 452 (I. of Pines). 

 — Read, Oologist, XXVI, 1909, 58 (I. of Pines); XXVII, 1910, 5 (Nuevas River). 



"Cuban Pewee" Read, Oologist, XXVII, 1910, 84 (McKinley to Nueva Gerona); 

 XXVIII, 1911, 3 (McKinley), 5 (Santa Barbara Mountain, etc), 7 (Canada 

 Mountains, etc.), 11 (Nuevas Riv-er), 113 (West McKinley); XXX, 1913, 123 

 (Nuevas River), 125, 127 (Santa Barbara), 131 (I. of Pines). 



Twelve specimens: Los Indios. 



The specimens measured agree well with those from this island 

 handled by Mr. Ridgway in being slightly smaller than Cuban 

 examples. They all came from Los Indios, where the species was 

 found to be common in a dense thicket at the edge of a pasture. Some 

 were also seen near Nueva Gerona, while Mr. Zappey's and Mr. 

 Read's records pertain to other sections of the island, so that the 

 species appears to be quite generally distributed, except in the swampy 

 country. In its general habits it resembles the common W^ood Pewee, 

 usually perching rather low down, however, and being very tame and 

 unsuspicious. There appear to be no actual records of its nesting in 

 the Isle of Pines, but according to Gundlach it builds a nest on a 

 horizontal branch, much after the style of the common Wood Pewee. 



Empidonax flaviventris (Baird). Yellow-bellied Flycatcher. 



(?) "Yellow-bellied Flycatcher" Read, Forest and Stream, LXXIII, 1909, 452 



(I. of Pines, Apr. 28). — Read, Oologist, XXVI, 1909, 102, and XXVIII, 191 1, 



12, and XXX, 1913, 131 (I. of Pines). 



This species is generally believed to migrate entirely through Mexico, avoiding 

 the West Indies. The above records published by Mr. Read are therefore open 

 to question. 



