262 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



browner than Bahaman specimens comparable as to season, but not 

 more so than in winter skins from Central America. Three males 

 and a female shot April 5 and 8 are just completing the prenuptial 

 moult, as shown by the fresh feathers on the throat. 



A common winter resident, according to Mr. Link's experience, 

 throughout the northern part of the island, but not observed in the 

 Cienaga or on the " south coast." It was recorded by Poey, but 

 curiously enough Mr. Zappey did not chance to meet with it. Mr. 

 Read's earliest fall records are October i, 1910, and October 3, 1909, 

 while Mr. Link's last specimen was shot April 8. Here, as at the north, 

 it is an inhabitant of the low, wet thickets, where it contrives to keep 

 well concealed. 



117. Teretistris fernandinae (Lembeye). Fernandina Warbler. 



Helmitheros blandus (not of Lichtenstein) Poey, Mem. Hist. Nat. Cuba, 1854, 427 

 (Nueva Gerona, fide Gundlach). 



Teretistris fernandincB Cory, Cat. W. Indian Birds, 1892, 119 ("Pine Island," in 

 geog. distr.). — Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, II, 1902, 649 (I. of 

 Pines, in geog. distr.). — Bangs & Zappey, Am. Nat., XXXIX, 1905, 210 (Pasa- 

 dita and Cayo Bonito). — Sharpe, Hand-List Birds, V, 1909, 113 (I. of Pines, 

 in geog. distr.). — Read, Oologist, XXVI, 1909, 190 (I. of Pines); XXVIII, 191 1, 

 7 (Canada Mountains, etc.), 12 (I. of Pines). — Read, Bird-Lore, XIII, 191 1, 44 

 (McKinley); XV, 1913, 45 (Santa Barbara). — Read, Oologist, XXX, 1913, 

 130 (I. of Pines). 



"'Chillina' Warbler" Read, Oologist, XXVIII, 1911, 5 (Santa Barbara Mountain, 

 etc.), II (Nuevas River), 113 (West McKinley). 



Eight specimens: Siguanea and Los Indios. 



A species peculiar to western Cuba, whence it extends to the Isle 

 of Pines, having been recorded by Poey many years ago. Mr. Zappey 

 secured it at Pasadita and Cayo Bonito, while Mr. Link found it not 

 uncommon in the western end of the Cienaga, near Siguanea. It was 

 noted at Los Indios also, and at Hato on the " south coast," while 

 Mr. Read has observed it occasionally in the northwestern part of 

 the island. It is a " grouiid " warbler, keeping to the densest covert 

 in the thick, damp woods, where it is naturally difificult to observe and 

 still more difificult to shoot. Nothing is yet on record regarding its 

 nesting so far as the Isle of Pines is concerned. 

 [Seiurus motacilia (Vieillot). Louisiana Water-Thrush. 



(?) "Louisiana Water-Thrush" Read, Forest and Stream, LXXIII, 1909, 452 

 (I. of Pines, December 14). — Read, Oologist, XXVI, 1909, 58 (I. of Pines); 

 XXVII, 1910, 5 (Nuevas River), 15 (I. of Pines; migr.); XXVIII, 1911, 7 (I. of 

 Pines, September 30), 113 (West McKinley); XXX, 1913, 130 (I. of Pines, 

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



