254 " REVIEW OF AMERICAN BIRDS. [PART I. 
uncertain. The bill is much like that of some Certhiole in shape 
and curve, though the mouth is deeply cleft, and the tongue com- 
paratively simple (see page 163), as in the Warblers. In the com- 
pression, however, and decurvation of the bill, there is a close rela- 
tionship to Jcteria, though it is smaller, longer proportionally, and 
much more slender. The basal joints of the middle toe are rather 
more united than common in Sylvicolide ; not so much as in Vireo. 
The tarsi are shorter, and the claws more curved than in Jcteria. 
This genus, confined to Cuba, is represented by two known species 
which agree in having the upper parts olive gray, the crissum 
whitish, the wings and tail not varied by white. The diagnosis is 
as follows :— 
Head and neck all round yellow (slightly olivaceous above) ; 
rest of under parts whitish, tinged with ashy on the sides fernandine. 
Head and neck above like the back; sides of head (sharply 
defined against the vertex) and whole under parts, except 
crissum and anal region, bright yellow. : . fornsii. 
Veretristis fermandine. 
Anabates fernandine, Lempryr, Aves Cuba, 1850, 66, tab. v, fig. 2 
(western Cuba).—Gunpiacu, Bost. Jour. VI, m1, 1853, 317 (eggs; 
Cuba).— Teretristis fern. Cab. Jour. III, 1855, 475.—Guypuacu, Ib. - 
1861, 326 (Cuba; very common).—Helmitherus blanda, Boy. Consp. 
I, April, 1850, 314, Cuba (mot the species of Lichtenstein, jide 
Cabanis). 
Hab. Western Cuba. 
Head and neck all round olive green above, yellow beneath; the loral 
region and eyelids, and edge of wings also yellow. Rest of upper parts ashy 
gray, with faint tinge of olivaceous. Under parts pale ashy gray, lighter 
across breast; the middle of breast and beily yellowish-white. Lining of 
wings white. Bill dark lead color, lighter along the tomia, Legs dark brown. 
The bill varies a good deal in size and shape. 
Total length, 5.00; wing, 2.25 ; tail, 2.45 ; graduation, .25 ; difference between 
1st and 3d quills, .40; length of bill from forehead, .55, from nostril, .37, along 
gape, .60; depth, .15; greatest width at angle of rictus, .25 ; tarsus, .74; middle 
toe and claw, .62; claw alone, .18; hind toe and claw, .45; claw alone, .22. 
1 
Smith- Collec-| Sex < 
sonian, tor’s | and Locality. Geet teceived from Collected by 
No. No. | Age. 
29,636 | .. .. | Fermina, Cuba. Feb. 20. | Chas. Wirightee) |" Oi ieee 
DOKGSE wn mie Js f April 25. eee Ue ee Ae Abo. 
29,635 ee ee . na Feb. 19. ee ee ake Ss, 
29,634 oe sie nS tes E89 SMS ay (si he ae ee 
33,678 sie AG Cuba. Ae Dri. J. Gundlach: oi| eeeere 
33,677 ae g SS cA eS See 
Fic 134 fof £6 Cab. Mr; Lawrence:| ~  scisece 
