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43.5 (41.4); tail, 47-62 (50); exposed culmen, 10-10.6 (10.1); tarsus, 

 15-16.5 (15.6); middle toe, 8-9 (8.4).« 



Adult female (.^).— Similar to the adult male, but gray of upper parts 

 duller and slightly brownish, and black line behind auricular region 

 narrower, less distinct; length (skins), 95-109 (102); wing, 39.5-40 

 (39.7); tail, 48-49 (48.5); exposed culmen, 10; tarsus, 16; middle toe, 

 8.5-9 (8.7).* 



Island of Cuba, Greater Antilles. 



Oalicivora lembeyei Gundlach, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., vi, 1858, 273 (eastern 



Cuba). — Albkecht, Journ. fiirOru., 1861, 211 (crit. ). 

 Clulidvora] lembeyei Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., vi, 1858, 276 (crit.). 

 [^OuUdvora] lembeyii Bkewbh, Proe. Bost. Soe. N. H., vii, 1860, 306. 

 [PolioptUa] lembeyei Gundlach, Journ. fur Orn., ix, Sept., 1861, 324; Kepert. 



Fiico. Nat. Cuba, i, 1865, 231. 

 PolioptUa lembeyei Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1872, 410 (habits; descr. nest and 



eggs); Orn. Oubana, 1873, 61.— Coky, Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 120, 129. 

 \^Polioptila\ lembeyei Gbay, Hand-list, i, 1869, 237, no. 3441. 

 P[olioptila lembeyei'] Hbllmaye, Tierreich, 18 Lief., 1903, 19. 

 [PolioptUa] lembeyii Baied, Keview Am. Birds, 1864, 68. 

 PolioptUa lembeyi Baied, Beewee, and Eidgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 



78.— CoEY, Auk, iii, 1886, 22; Birds W. I., 1889, 36; Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 



18.— Shaepe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 444.— Chapman, Bull. Am. 



Mus. N. H., iv, 1892, 312 (near Trinidad, Cuba). 

 Plolioptila] lembeyi Eidgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 571. 



« Four specimens. 



6 Two specimens, neither of them sexed, and possibly both immature males. 



