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On Tortue Island May 19, 1917, Abbott found a nest in a mangrove 

 four meters from the ground that contained three small young. 

 The nest is a cupped structure suspended by the margin in the fork 

 at the tip of a limb. It is made of rootlets, mosslike materials, and 

 bits of bark with rather thick walls, and is lined with brownishj 

 fibers. Sets of two and three eggs were collected on May 20 and 23, 

 1917, the eggs being white spotted very sparingly with minute to 

 moderate spots of black and blackish brown, these being found 

 mainly at the larger end of the egg. The individual eggs of these 

 two sets were confused in cataloguing and may not now be separated. 

 The two eggs that may be measured have the following dimensions : 

 22.6 by 16.4 and 23.5 by 15.7 mm. The nest of the set secured May 

 20, suspended like the one described above in the fork at the tip 

 of a twig, is a much slighter structure than the first one and is made 

 largely of shredded bark padded heavily with cotton so that it is 

 conspicuously white. It was placed two meters from the ground. 

 Danforth found numerous nests containing from one to three eggs 

 on Gonave Island July 15 to 20, 1927, at heights of five to nine feet 

 from the ground. An adult male of this vireo taken at Sanchez, 

 May 9, 1927 by Wetmore had the maxilla and tip of mandible dull 

 slaty brown; iris reddish brown, and tarsus gray number 6 (of 

 Ridgway). 



In the extensive series examined all specimens are referable to the 

 typical form, birds from Hispaniola agreeing closely with those of 

 Jamaica, those of Porto Rico averaging very faintly paler. Bangs 

 and Penard 33 have shown that the specific name olivaieeus, long in 

 use for the red-eyed vireo, must replace calidris current for the 

 present group, the appellation of the red-eyed vireo being changed 

 to Vireo virescens. 



The Jamaican vireo is from 155 to 175 mm. in length, of slender 

 form, greenish above, duller and grayer on the head, and whitish 

 below, with a yellowish green wash on the sides and under tail 

 coverts, a prominent light streak above either eye, a blackish malar 

 stripe, and a grayish brown mark before the eye. 



LAWRENCIA NANA (Lawrence) 

 FLAT-BILLED VIREO 



Empidonax nanus Lawrence, Ibis, 1875, p. 386 ("St. Domingo "=Doininic:in 

 Republic). — Cory, Birds Haiti and San Domingo, July 1884, pp. 82-83, col. 

 fig. (description, figure of bead). — Tippenhauer, Die Insel Haiti, 1892^ p. 321 

 (listed). 



Lawrencia Ridgway, Auk, 18S6, p. 382 (new genus for Empidonax nanus 

 Lawrence). 



33 Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. G", 1925, pp. 205-206. 



