A 6 Cory on the Birds of f/ie West Indies. [January 



J. f. O. iS6i, p. 211 ; ib. J. f. O. 1S62, p. 177; ib. Repert. Fisico-Nat. 



Cuba. I, p. 236 (1S65); /7).J. f. O. 1872, p. 4tS.— Cory. List Bds. W. 



I. p. 9 (1SS5).— Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. X, p. 368 (1S85). 

 Teretristis fornsii '^WKVi, Rev. Am. l?ds. p. 235 (1S64). 

 Teredstris fornsii GK.\y, Handl. Bds. I, p. 384(1869). 

 Teretristis fon/si Sc-L. «& Salv. Noni. Avium Neotr. p. 11 (i"73). 



Sp. Char. Male: — Top of head and upper parts pale asli-grav ; a faint 

 indication of veliovv on the extreme forehead; sides of the head 

 (including the eye), throat, and underparts yellow, becoming pale 

 on the belly and ashy white on the flanks and crissum ; wings and 

 tail pale brown, the feathers pale edged; a tinge of yellow on the 

 carpus and under wing-coverts. 



Female: — Similar to the male, but less yellow on the underparts; 

 ashy white on the belly. 



Length, 4.60; wing, 2.15; tail, 1.95; tarsus, .72. 

 Habitat. Eastern portion of Cuba. 



Genus Sylvania Nuttall. 



Sylvania "'NuTT. Man. Orn. 1832." 



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Sylvania mitrata (Gmel.). 



Motacilla mitrata Gmel. Syst. Nat. L p- 977 (17S8). 



Seto/>/iajra mitrata DOkb. in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois. p. 89 

 (1840) (Cuba).— Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VH, p. 307 

 (i860) (Cuba). 



Myioctomus mitratits Gundl. J. f. O. 1855, p- 472; ib. 1S61, p. 407 

 (Cuba) ; ib. 1S72, p. 419 (Cuba). 



Myiodioctes mitratus Gundl. J. f. O. 1S61, p. 326; ib. 187 .^, p. 419; ib. 

 Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, L p. 237 (1865) (Cuba).— A. &. E. New- 

 ton, Handb. Jam. p. 106 (1881). 



Sylvania mitratus Cory, List Bds. W. L p. 9 (1885). 

 Accidental in Cuba and Jamaica. 



Genus Setophaga Swains. 



Setophaga Swainson, Zool. Journ. HI, p. 360 (1827). 

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Setophaga ruticilla (Linn.). 



Muscicapa ruticilla Linn. Syst. Nat. I, p. 326 (1766). — D"Orb. in La 

 Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois. p. 87 (1840) (Cuba). 



Setophaga ruticilla Go%?,K,'&A9,.}-xm.. p. 164 (1874) (Jamaica). — Gundl. 

 J. f. O. 1S55, p. 472; ib. 1861, p. 326: ib. 1S72, p. 419; ib. Repert. 

 Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 237 (1S65) (Cuba).— Salle, P. Z. S. 1857, 



