214 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST.  [Vor. XXXIX. 
Exposed 
No. Sex. Wing. Tail. Tarsus. culmen. 
13,322 d ad. 75 57-5 18 12 
13,310 Q ad. 69 94 17.5 12 
13,313 9 ad. 68 - 2 17 I2 
13,324 9 ad. 69 50 17.5 12 
13,325 2 ad. 71 55.5 18 12 
13,326 9 ad. USB 53 17.5 12 
13,127 9 ad. 67 53-5 II 
13,328 Q ad. 69 Le 18 13% 
13,329 9 ad. 67 50 17 12 
13,330 9 ad 2 2 18.5 11.5 
The Spindalis is a conspicuous and rather common bird in 
the Isle of Pines, frequenting the pines and a tree (name not 
known) that bears a pink blossom. Both the males and females 
sing, the song being a low, weak warble. 
Twenty-one specimens, adults of both sexes, were taken at 
Santa Fé, Jucaro, Callebonita, Pasadita, and San Juan, in April, 
May, and June. These differ from Cuban examples, as has 
been pointed out by Ridgway in Birds of North and Middle 
America, in larger size and bigger bills, and in addition show a 
slight average difference in color. 
116. Tiaris olivacea olivacea (Linn.). | * TOMEQUIN DE LA 
TIERRA.” — A rather common bird in the Isle of Pines, in the 
brushy country, and particularly fond of thorn bushes, and one 
species of palm upon the berries of which it feeds. 
Nine specimens, adults of both sexes, were taken at Santa Fé 
and Callebonita in April, May, and June. 
Ridgway in Birds. of North and Middle America (Part I, p. 
531, footnote) speaks of the slightly larger size and duller colors 
of the male Grassquits from Cuba, Grand Cayman, and Little 
Cayman as compared with those from Haiti and Jamaica. The 
series from the Isle of Pines bears out both peculiarities — 
larger size of the males and duller colors — but the differences 
are very slight and hardly sufficient to base a new form upon. 
The specimens measure as follows : — 
pert cena 
No. Sex. Wing. Tail. Tarsus. culmen. 
13,301 d ad. 49 37-5 15.5 9 
13,303 d ad. 47:5 37-5 16 9 
13.304 d ad. 49.5 38 15.5 9.5 
