282 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



After having compared the above with a series from eastern Cuba, 

 kindly placed at my disposal by Mr. Charles T. Ramsden, I find myself 

 unable to admit the alleged subspecies pinus to recognition. True, 

 the Isle of Pines birds average a little larger, as shown by Mr. Ridgway 

 and by Messrs. Bangs and Zappey, but the difference is certainly slight, 

 the measurements overlapping, and does not in my judgment justify 

 formal separation. Moreover, as regards color, when specimens taken 

 at the same season are compared absolutely no differences between the 

 two series are observable. Messrs. Bangs and Zappey, in their original 

 description, admit that their Cuban specimens (in the case of females 

 at least) were not comparable as to season with those from the Isle 

 of Pines, and it seems as if this circumstance might readily account 

 for the differences to which they call attention. Mr. Ridgway says 

 that he cannot distinguish specimens from the Isle of Pines from those 

 from western Cuba. 



The seasonal variations in color in this species are well marked. 

 Males taken in November are more deeply colored than those shot in 

 April and May. A young bird dated September 26 is completing the 

 postjuvenal moult, which apparently involves the rectrices. 



The Cuban Spindalis is a tolerably common resident species in the 

 Isle of Pines, both throughout the northern part and the portion south 

 of the Cienaga. During the breeding-season it is usually seen in pairs, 

 feeding among the buds and blossoms, particularly of Jatropha glau- 

 covirens, in company with the two species of huinmingbirds and the 

 Cuban Bullfinch. At other seasons it may be found in small parties 

 in the jungles. According to Messrs. Read and Link it is an unusually 

 silent bird, and likely to be overlooked were it not for the conspicuous 

 colors of the male, but Mr. Zappey says that both sexes sing at times, 

 the song being a low, weak warble. We have so far no information 

 concerning the breeding habits of this species in the Isle of Pines. 



137. Passerina cyanea (Linnaeus). Indigo Bunting. 



"Indigo Bunting" Read, Forest and Stream, LXXIII, I909, 452 (I. of Pines 



April 20).— Read, Oologist, XXVI, 1909, 75 (I. of Pines); XXVIII, 1911, 7 (I. 



of Pines, October 20 [18], 113 (West McKinley); XXX, 1913, 131 (I. of Pines). 

 Cyanospiza cyanea Read, Oologist, XXVIII, 191 1, 12 (I. of Pines). 



A not uncommon species in Cuba in the winter, according to Gund- 

 lach, and recorded from the Isle of Pines on a few occasions by Mr. 

 Read, who has noted it as early in the fall as October 18, and as late 

 in the spring as April 20, these dates corresponding fairly well with 



