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scapulars, the rump, upper tail-coverts, and edges of rectrices and 

 remiges light grayish olive-green; tertials and inner webs of other 

 remiges and rectrices hair brown; a superciliary stripe of dull white, 

 broadest anteriorly; lores dusky brownish gray; a post ocular streak 

 of grayish brown (hair brown) along upper edge of auricular region; 

 suborbital and auricular regions dull grayish buffy white, passing into 

 light brownish graj' on sides of neck; malar region, chin, throat, and 

 chest dull white; rest of under parts more yellowish white, the sides 

 and flanks tinged with pale yellowish olive; under tail-coverts, under 

 wing-coverts, and axillars pale sulphur or primrose yellow; maxilla 

 horn brown, darker basally, paler on tomia; mandible paler horn color 

 (in dried skins); legs and feet dusky grayish (grayish blue in life?); 

 length (skin), 144; wing, 74; tail, 56; exposed culmen, 15; depth of 

 bill at nostrils, 5; tarsus, 20; middle toe, 12." 



Islands of Grand Cayman, Little Cayman, and Cayman Brae, Greater 

 Antilles.* 



Vireo caymanensls Coey, Auk., iv, Jan. 1887, 7 (Grand Cayman, Greater Antilles; 

 coll. C. B. Cory); v, 1888, 157 (Grand Cayman); vi, 1889, 31 (Little Cay- 

 man; Cayman Brae); Birds AV. I., 1889, 288; Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 17, 116, 

 129, 153.— RiDGWAY, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1887, 573 (Grand Cayman). 



VIREOSYLVA CALIDRIS CALIDRIS (Linnaeus). 

 JAMAICAN VIREO. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Pileum j)lain grayish brown (hair brown), 

 without distinct, if any, darker lateral margin; hindneck, back, 

 scapulars, and lesser wing-coverts plain dull brownish olive-green, the 

 rump and upper tail-coverts clearer or more decided olive-green; 

 wings and tail dusky grayish brown with yellowish olive-green 

 edgings, these paler and more yellowish on greater wing-coverts; 

 broad superciliary stripe and sides of head below eyes, pale Isabella 

 color or dull grayish buff, the two areas of this color separated by a 

 dusky grayish loral and postocular streak; sides of throat margined 

 by a dusky grayish submalar streak; chin and throat dull white; chest 

 similar, but tinged with pale grayish olive-green; breast and abdomen 

 white; under tail-coverts pale sulphur yellow; sides and flanks pale 

 yellowish olive or grayish olive-green; axillars and under wing-coverts 

 pale sulphur yellow; ibner webs of remiges broadly edged with 

 yellowish white or pale primrose yellow; maxilla horn color or dusky, 

 with paler tomia; mandible pale grayish brown (pale grayish blue in 

 life); iris brownish red; legs and feet dusky in dried skins (grayish 

 blue or bluish gray in life). 



Young, first plumage. — Pileum, hindneck, back, scapulars, rump, 

 upper tail-coverts, and lesser wing-coverts plain broccoli brown, 



"One specimen. 



61 have seen specimens from Grand Cayman only. 



