BIBDS Oi' NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 141 



Islands of St. Eustatius, Antigua, Montserrat, Guadeloupe, Domi- 

 nica, Martinique, Santa Lucia, St. Vincent, Grenada, and Barbados, 

 Lesser Antilles. 



Vireo Icmgirostris Swainson, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 237, part (St. Vincent). 



Vireosylvia calidris (not Motaeilla calidris LinnEeus) Sclatee, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1871, 269 (Santa Lucia) ; 1889, 326 (Dominica).— Sempbk, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Lond., 1871, 649 (Santa Lucia). — Lawrence, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 

 1878, 233 (Barbuda), 486 (Antigua). 



[Vireosylvia] calidris ScLATERand Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 11, part. 



Vireo calidris Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1881, 186, part. — 

 Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., viii, 1883, 293, part.— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 

 189, part; iv, 1887, 95 (Martinique); viii, 1891, 47 (Antigua; St. Eustatiua), 

 48 (St. Christopher), 49 (Guadeloupe); Birds W. I., 1889, 76, part; Cat. 

 W. I. Birds, 1892, 115, 152, part (St. Eustatius, St. Christopher, Antigua, 

 Guadeloupe, Dominica, Santa Lucia, St. Vincent, Grenada, Barbados). 



[Vireo^lvia calidris'] var. harbadense Eidgway, in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway's 

 Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 359 (Barbados, Lesser Antilles; coll. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus.). 



Vireosylvia calidris larbadense Cory, Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 152, in text (Barba- 

 dos, Dominica, St. Vincent, Santa Lucia, Martinique, Grenada; c^it. ). 



Vireosylvia calidris var. dominicana La?/eenc;e. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, July 30, 

 1878,55 (Dominica, Lesser Antilles; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.), 189 (St. Vin- 

 cent), 268 (Grenada), 354 (Martinique), 454 (Guadeloupe), 486 (Guade- 

 loupe, Dominica, Martinique, St. Vincent, Grenada). — Wells, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., ix, 1887, 611 (Grenada; food; descr. nest and eggs). 



Vireosylvia calidris dominicana Allen, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 186 (Santa 

 Lucia). 



Vireo calidris dominicana Eidqway, Proc. XJ. S. Nat. Mus., xii, 1890, 129 (Santa 

 Lucia). 



VIREOSYLVA CALIDRIS BARBATULA (Cabanis). 

 \ BLACK-WHISKERED VIREO, 



Similar to Y. c. iarbadensis, but dusky line along each side of pileum 

 much less distinct, often obsolete, and olive-green of back duller and 

 grayer; differing from Y. c. calidris in much paler and less buffy 

 superciliary stripe and auricular region, grayer pileum, duller olive- 

 green of back, etc. , and purer white throat and chest. 



Adult male.— IjQngth. (skins), 134-152 (142.5); wing, 77-82 (80.1); 

 tail, 51-61 (55.9); exposed culmen, 14-15.5 (14.9); depth of bill at 

 nostrils, 4-5 (4.7); tarsus, 17-20 (18.4); middle toe, 10-12.5 (11).« 



Adult female.— l^Qngih. (skins), 120-140 (131.4); wing, 73-77 (75.5); 



type of V. c. barbadensis (the only specimen examined from Barbados) is decidedly 

 browner above, both on back and pileum, than those from other islands, but the 

 specimen was first preserved in alcohol, which may possibly account for the differ- 

 ences in color; otherwise, the Barbados bird would have to stand by itself, those 

 from Dominica, etc., constituting a separate form, Vireosylva calidris dominicajia'Lstw- 

 rence. Two adults (a male and a female) from St. Vincent are decidedly darker 

 above than specimens from other islands. 

 oTwenty-flve specimens. 



