. Review of American birds in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution: pt. 1 . Birds. 332 EEVIEW OF AMERICAN 25958 [part I. Vireosyhia altiloqua, Cassin, Pr. A. N. So. 1851, 152.—Ib. Illust. 1S54, 8, and 221, pi. 37 (Florida).—Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soo. V, 1869, 113 (Bahamas).—Laweence, Ann. N. Y. Lyo. 1860 (Cuba). ffab. Cuba ; the Bahamas, and Charlotte Harbor, Florida. (W. Coast.) (No. 259,58, % , Cuba.) Proportion of quills as in V. calidris, 2. = 3. 4,1. 5., but the tips of the quills closer together, and the 1st quill about half or a little less than half the distance between 5th an
. Review of American birds in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution: pt. 1 . Birds. 332 EEVIEW OF AMERICAN 25958 [part I. Vireosyhia altiloqua, Cassin, Pr. A. N. So. 1851, 152.—Ib. Illust. 1S54, 8, and 221, pi. 37 (Florida).—Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soo. V, 1869, 113 (Bahamas).—Laweence, Ann. N. Y. Lyo. 1860 (Cuba). ffab. Cuba ; the Bahamas, and Charlotte Harbor, Florida. (W. Coast.) (No. 259,58, % , Cuba.) Proportion of quills as in V. calidris, 2. = 3. 4,1. 5., but the tips of the quills closer together, and the 1st quill about half or a little less than half the distance between 5th and 4th; the quills narrower. Colors similar to those of V. calidris, but of a purer and paler olive above; the back tinged with ash ; the cap purer ash, and better defined, without olivaceous wash, its dusky edge more dis- tinct. The superciliary stripe whitish, or grayish, with the cheeks paler, and both, as well as the chin, without the buflf tinge. Under parts nearly pure white, very faintly tinged across the breast with ashy; the sides olivaceous ; the orissum and axillars pale sulphur yellow. (No. 25,958, %.) Total length, ; wing, ; tail, ; difference of 1st and 2d quills, .18, of 5th and 2d, .22; length of bill from forehead, .82, from nostril, .46, along gape, .89 ; tarsus, .72; middle toe and claw, .60, claw alone, .21; hind toe and claw, .50, claw alone, .23. The black-whiskered Vireos of Cuba, Bahamas, and Florida are distinguished by the characters just mentioned from the Jamaican species, and agree in coloration very well among themselves. While in V. calidris the first quill is, with scarcely an exception, about midway betvreen the fourth and fifth, the second a little longer than the third, the tendency in the present series is to have the third quill rather the longer, and the first only equalling the fifth. Only in No. 17,711 and 25,958, from Cuba, and 34,513, from Nassau, is the first quill longer, or reaching nearly half way from the 5th to th
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