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tail, 46-62 (48.8); exposed culmen, 12-13 (12.3); tarsus, 20-22 (21.1); 

 middle toe, 11-13 (11.5). « 



More western Bahama Islands (Abaco, Eleuthera,* New Provi- 

 dence, Andres, San Salvador ^ or Cat Island, Green Cay," and Inagua); 

 Highburna Key; Pimlico Key. 



Laniuireo crasdrosiris Beyant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1859, 112 (Island of 

 New Providence, Bahamas; type in coll. XT. S. Nat. Mus.). — Oohy, Birds 

 Bahama I., 1880, 83. 



Vireo crassirostris Baird, Review Am. Birds, May, 1866, 368 (Nassau, New Provi- 

 dence I.).— OoRY, Auk, iii, 1886, 188, part; viii, 1891, 294 (New Providence), 

 295 (Berry islands), 296 (Biminis), 297 (Caicos I.; Inagua), 298 (Abaco), 

 350 (Great Bahama; Inagua), 351 (Eleuthera; Inagua); ix, 1892, 48 (Mara- 

 gauno), 49 (Inagua); Cat. Birds W. I., 1889, 75, part; Cat. W. I. Birds, 

 1892, 17, 116, 127, 153 (Great Bahama, Abaco, Berry I., Biminis, Eleuthera, 

 New Providence, Andros ?, Cat. I., Green Cay, and Inagua, Bahamas). — 

 EiDGWAY, Auk, viii, 1891, 334 (Abaco), 335 (New Providence), 336 (Eleu- 

 thera; Cat I.), 338 (Green Cay). — Northrop (and Allen), Auk, viii, 1891, 

 70 (Andros I.). — Bangs, Auk, xvii, 1900, 289 (New Providence; color 

 variations). 



[ Vireo] crassirostris Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 382, no. 5777. — Sclater and Salvin, 

 Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 12.— Cory, List Birds W. I., 1885, 10. 



Vlireo'] crassirostris Eidgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 476. 



Vireo noveboracends (not Muscicapa noveboracensis Gmelin) Gadow, Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., viii, 1883, 300, part (in synonymy). 



a Sixteen specimens. 



Specimens from different islands average, respectively, as follows: 



Specimens from Abaco average slightly grayer than those from New Providence, 

 but the grayest examples are the two from Andros and Inagua, respectively. 



6 On these islands mixed with V. c. flavescens, or specimens intermediate between 

 the two forms. 



c Specimens tending toward V. c. flavescens. 



