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VIREO OLIVACEUS OLIVACEUS (Linnaeus) 



JAMAICAN VIREO, BIEN-TE-VEO, QUIEN FUE, JULIAN CHIVI, OISEAU 

 CANNE, PETIT BANACHE 



Musoicapa olivacea Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, vol. 1, 1766, p. 327 

 (Jamaica). 



Turdus hispaniolensis, Ritter, Naturh. Reis. Westind. Insel Hayti, 1836, 

 p. 156 (Haiti, specimen). — Hartlaub, Isis, 1847, p. 609 (listed). 



Musoicapa altiloqua, Viexllot, Hist. Nat. Ois. Amer. Sept., vol. 1, 1807, p. 

 67 (" Saint-Domingue"). 



Tyrannula altiloqua, Hartlaub, Isis, 1847, p. 609 (listed). 



Vireo altiloquus, Salle, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1857, p. 231 (listed). 



Vireo altiloquus barbatulus, Cory, Bull. Nuttall Ornitli. Club, 1881, p. 152 

 (Haiti). 



Vireo calidris, Bryant, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 11, May, 1S67, p. 93 

 (Dominican Republic, Haiti). — Cory, Birds Haiti and Sun Domingo, March, 

 1884, pp. 49-50 (Petionville, Sainana, specimens) ; Cat. West Indian Birds, 1892, 

 p. 115 (Haiti, Dominican Republic). — Ttppenhatjer, Die Insel Haiti, 1892, p. 

 321 (listed).— Cherrie, Field Col. Mus., Ornith. ser., vol. 1, 1896, p. 13 

 (Dominican Republic, specimens). — Nicoll, Ibis, 1904, p. 576 (specimen at sea 

 near island). — Verrill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 61, 1909, 

 p. 364 (common). 



Vireosylva calidris calidris, Peters, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 61, 1917, p. 417 

 (Monte Cristi, Sosua, specimens). 



Vireosylva olivaceus, Lonnberg, Fauna och flora, 1929, p. 106 (Gonave). 



Vircosylvia olivacea, Ekman, Ark. for Bot., vol. 22A, No. 16, 1929, p. 7 

 (Navassa). 



Vireo olivacea olivacea, Bond, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 80, 

 1928, p. 510 (Haiti, Gonave, and Tortue). 



Vireo olivaceus olivaceus, Danforth, Auk, 1929, p. 372 (habits, song, food). — 

 Moltoni, Att. Soc. Ital. Scienz. Nat., vol. 68, 1929, p. 321 (San Juan, specimens). 



A breeding form, found on Gonave and Tortue as well as on the 

 main island. 



The visitor to Hispaniola who is familiar with the birds of eastern 

 North America recognizes at once the Jamaican vireo through its 

 close similarity in song and habit to the red-eyed vireo of the North. 

 The species inhabits woodland growths and mangrove swamps in 

 both arid and humid sections, being rather universally distributed. 

 In the highlands it does not occur in the pine forests, and on La 

 Selle Wetmore did not record it on the summit of the high ridge of 

 that mountain system, though he observed it on the north face of 

 Morne Cabaio at 1,700 meters, and saw it also at Chapelle Faure in 

 Nouvelle Touraine. At Constanza and El Rio a few were found in 

 groves of deciduous trees. Strangely enough though this vireo was 

 seen at Las Cahobes and at Caracol none were found at Hinche on 

 the central plain during Wetmore's stay there in April, though the 

 birds must occur there at times as the mockingbirds about the ex- 

 periment station, which so far as known are strictly resident, imi- 

 tated its song constantly. Possibly the vireo passes through this 



