332 REVIEW OF AMERICAN BIRDS. [PART I. 
Vireosylvia altiloqgua, Cassin, Pr. A. N. Sc. 1851, 152.—In. Illust. 1854, 
8, and 221, pl. 37 (Florida).—Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. V, 1859, 113 
(Bahamas).—Lawkence, Ann. N. Y. Lye. 1860 (Cuba). 
Hab. Cuba; the Bahamas, and Charlotte Harbor, Florida. (W. Coast.) 
(No. 259,58, %, Cuba.) Proportion of quills asin V. calidris, 2.3.4.1. 5., 
but the tips of the quills closer together, and the Ist quill about half ora little 
less than half the distance 
between 5th and 4th; the 
quills narrower. 
Colors similar to those 
of V. calidris, but of a 
purer and paler olive 
above; the back tinged 
with ash; the cap purer 
ash, and better defined, 
without olivaceous wash, 
| Vireosylvia barbatula, (Cuba.) its dusky edge more dis- 
tinct. The superciliary 
stripe whitish, or grayish, with the cheeks paler, and both, as well as the chin, 
without the buff tinge. Under parts nearly pure white, very faintly tinged 
across the breast with ashy; the sides olivaceous; the crissum and axillars 
pale sulphur yellow. 
(No. 25,958, 4.) Total length, 5.50; wing, 3.15; tail, 2.50; difference of 
1st and 2d quills, .18, of 5th and 2d, .22; length of bill from forehead, .82, 
from nostril, .46, along gape, .89; tarsus, .72; middle toe and claw, .60, claw 
alone, .21; hind toe and claw, .50, claw alone, .23. 
The black-whiskered Vireos of Cuba, Bahamas, and Florida are 
distinguished by the characters just mentioned from the Jamaican 
species, and agree in coloration very well among themselves. While 
in V. calidris the first quill is, with scarcely an exception, about 
midway between the fourth and fifth, the second a little longer than 
the third, the tendency in the present series is to have the third quill 
rather the longer, and the first only equalling the fifth. Only in 
No. 17,711 and 25,958, from Cuba, and 34,513, from Nassau, is the 
first quill longer, or reaching nearly half way from the 5th to the 4th. 
Smith- Collec-| Sex When 
sonian| tor’s | and Locality. i Received from Collected by 
No. No. Age. Collected, 
25,958 4c ue Cuba, and Dr. Gundlach;i,- |) > 2 wae 
33,064 ae we Ss acts bre MTB tae ie. 
ie 243 Aes sé 345 Cab, Lawrence, Dr. Gundlach. 
17,711 id Ke Monte Verde, Cuba. | May 6. CONWaTe ne Gl hs oer 
13,505 aA es Nassau, N. P. Deos.§) 7692.) Dro Bryant. so" ot) i ee eeonee 
34,514 23+) .. ss [Fla. | May 14, ‘64.| Lt.C.L. Fitzgerald.| —...... 
24,282 | 243 te Charlotte Harbor, | June, 1848.| Dr. Heermann. | ...... 
