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The bird goes through a curious change in color, during the summer, 
without molt. In early May (roth to 15th) itis in fine plumage with green 
back and gray pileum; gradually as the season advances the gray color 
fades to a rusty brown which in July specimens covers the whole pileum 
and sides of head and neck and spreads over the back nearly to the rump. 
2g. Vireo crassirostris Bryant. THICK-BILLED VIREO. — Twenty-one 
specimens, all from Nassau, adults taken in February, March, April and 
May, and four nestlings taken June 24 and 25. 
This series shows a wide range in color, from very dull colored exam- 
ples to some nearly as bright as V. crasstrostris flavescens, though none 
are quite as highly colored as that form. Dr. Ridgway kindly compared 
this series with the type of V. crasstrostrts, which is in the National Mu- 
seum, and wrote me that it (the type) is about half way between the dull- 
est and brightest individuals in our series. 
30. Mimus gundlachii (Cad.). GuNDLACH’s MocKINGBIRD. — Ten 
specimens, six from Nassau, four from Highbourne Key, March and 
April. 
31. Galeoscoptes carolinensis (Lzzz.). CATBIRD.—One adult ¢ from 
Nassau, March 4, 1897. 
32. Mimocichla plumbea (Zzzx.). PLUMBEUS MOCKINGBIRD. — Ten 
specimens, all from Nassau, including adults taken from February 8 to 
March 24, and two young examples in nestling plumage taken August 15 
and August 20, 1897. 
The nestlings have the throat thickly spotted with dusky and the rest of 
the underparts sparsely spotted with dusky brown; the wing-coverts 
somewhat spotted with light brown. 
33. Polioptila czrulea cesiogaster(A7dgw.). BAHAMA GNATCATCHER. 
—Seven adults from Nassau. 
34. Geothlypis trichas (Lznzn.). MARYLAND YELLOW-THROAT. — Six 
specimens from Nassau and Current Island, Eleuthera, taken from Feb. 8 
to April 13. 
35. Geothlypis restricta. MJaynard.!| BAHAMA YELLOW-THROAT. — 
Eight specimens, from Nassau, Hog Island and Salt Key, February 8 to 
May 5. 
I use this name for the smaller Yellowthroat that winters on the Baha- 
mas; it certainly is a different form from G. ¢richas, and some day its 
breeding range will be known. 
When Mr. Maynard described this form he believed that it bred on New 
Providence; since then he has ascertained that it does not breed on that 
island, at least, though it lingers very late, into early May. Besides 
the differences in color and extent of the black markings, G. restricta 
averages smaller than G. ¢richas. (The wing of G. frichas, in a very 
large series I have just measured, runs from 55 mm.to 59mm. In the 
1 Geothlypis restricta Maynard, American Exchange and Mart, December 15, 
1886. 
