1886.J Cory oh the Birds of the West Indies. I 8q 



Sp. Char. — Wings short and rounded; upper plumage grayish olive; lores 

 and circle around the eye yellowish; underparts dull yellow; two 

 narrow wing-bands ; wings and tail brown edged with grayish olive, 

 pale on the secondaries ; quills narrowly edged on inner webs with 

 dull white ; bill dull horn color. 



Length (skin), 5; wing, 2.15; tail, 2.10; tarsus, .78; bill. .43. 



Habitat. Cuba. 



Vireo flavifrons Vieill. 



Virco flavifrons Vieill. Ois. Am. Sept. I, p. 85 (1807). — Gundl. J. f. O. 

 1855, p. 468 (Cuba) ; ib. 1861, p. 404 (Cuba) ; ib. 1872, p. 403 (Cuba) 

 —Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat Hist. VII, p. 307 (i860) (Cuba).— 

 Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 10 (1885). 

 Accidental in Cuba. 



Vireo calidris (Linn.). 



Motacilla calidris LiNX. Syst. Nat. I, p. 329 (1766). 



Vireosylvia olivacea GossE, Bds. Jam. p. 194 (1847). 



Vireo altiloqiius Game. Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci Phila. 184S, p. 127. — Baird, 

 Bds. N. Am. p. 354 (1858). 



Vireosylvia altiloqua Cassin, Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1851, p. 152; ib. 

 Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. i860, p. 375. — Newton, Ibis, 1859, P- i45- 

 — Albrecht, J. f. O. 1862, p. 195. — ScL. &i Salv. p. Z. S. 1864, p. 



348. 



Vireo altiloqua Salle, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 231. 



Vireosylvia calidris Baird, Rev. Am. Bds. p. 329(1864). — ScL. & Salv. 

 P. Z. S. 1S75, p. 234.— Lawr. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. I, p- 233 (1878).— 

 A. & E. Newton, Handb. Jamaica, p. io6 (1881). 



Vireo calidris Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. XI, p. 93 (1866). — Salv. 

 & GoDM. Biol. Centr. Amer. Aves, p. i86 (1881). — Gadow, Cat. 

 Bds. Brit. Mus. VIII, p. 293 (1883).— Cory, Bds. Haiti & San Do- 

 mingo, p. 49 (18S5) ; ib. List Bds. W. I. p. 10 (1885). 



Phyllomanes calidris Gundl. Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. VII, p. 16S (1878) ; 

 ib. J. f. O. 1S78, p. 158. 



Vireosylvia calidris var. dominica)ia Lawr. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. I, p. 55 

 (187S). 



Sp. Char. Male: — Crown grayish, but showing a slight olive tinge ; upper 

 parts dull olive green ; a buff superciliary line and a dusky stripe 

 through the eye; a narrow dusky maxillary line halfway down the 

 sides of the throat; sides pale yellowish-olive; lining of wings and 

 under tail-coverts pale yellow; tail olive. 

 The sexes are similar. 



Length, 5.80; wing, 3.20; tail, 2.50; tarsus, .68; bill, .60. 

 Habitat. Jamaica, San Domingo, and Antilles. 



