Species and Varieties.
Common Characters. All species olive above, white or yellowish beneath. An ashy or brownish cap, contrasting more or less abruptly with the olive back. A whitish superciliary stripe extending to the nape, and a dusky one to and behind the eye. No light bands on the coverts. Inside of wings (flanks sometimes) and crissum yellowish, otherwise usually white beneath.
No spurious primary Series I.
A spurious primary Series II.
Series I. (No spurious primary.)
A. A dusky “mustache” or cheek stripe along each side of the throat.
1. V. calidris. Eyes red?
a. No distinct dusky line along side of the crown.
Light stripes of the head dingy brownish-buff; crown scarcely ashy; back olive-brown; crissum and lining of the wing pure pale
yellow. Wing, 3.20; tail, 2.25; bill, .42. Hab. Jamaica; Santo Domingo, Porto Rico, Santa Cruz, St. Thomas, and Sombrero. … var. calidris.[70]