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The adult female is dusky olive green above shading into rather 

 bright yellowish green on the rump and upper tail coverts this yel- 

 lowish green color is not perceptible on the nape as it is in females of 

 S. portoricensis. Below ashy, palest on lower breast and abdomen, 

 the under tail coverts whitish and all bathed with a yellowish olive 

 shading and indistinctly streaked with dusky brown. The outer pair 

 of rectrices are edged with white for the terminal third on the inner 

 webs, and the second pair are tipped with the same color on the inner 

 webs. There is no sign of dull yellow on the breast of my speci- 

 mens. 



Birds freshly killed have the eye dark brown; feet and legs 

 dusky plumbeous; claws, maxilla and tip of the mandible, black; base 

 of mandible, plumbeous black. 



24. Phoenicophilus palmarum (Linn.}. SIGUA MAIMONERA; 

 SIGUA AMARILLA Probably the most abundant species to be met 

 with in San Domingo. Two hundred and twenty-one specimens 

 were secured with representatives from all the localities visited. 

 However, after one ascends pretty well up into the mountains this 

 bird becomes comparatively rare. I found this species chiefly in the 

 forests where it may be looked for with equal success in the low 

 bushes or high up among the tree tops. It feeds both on fruit and 

 insects. It has, I believe, no song, but a somewhat Cat-bird-like 

 note of alarm. 



Females resemble the males, and young birds are similar to the 

 adults, except that the black of the head is replaced by dusky grayish 

 or slate color, and the entire head, neck and breast washed with 

 olive yellowish. 



A good many breeding birds were taken, but I was not fortunate 

 in finding either the nest or eggs, and nothing was learned of the 

 breeding habits. 



25. Calyptophilus frugivorus, Cory. Rare, seen only at Agua- 

 cate where three specimens were secured, two males and a female. 

 It may have been less rare than I suspected, because for some 

 time I confounded this with the preceding species. Early every 

 morning before it was fairly light I had the habit of going down to 

 the river, nearly a quarter of a mile from where I had my camp, and 

 I had remarked with some surprise that at this place (Aguacate) 

 Phoenicophilus palmarum seemed to have a pleasant early morning 

 song. In the gray of the morning I had noted the bird in the bushes 

 at the side of the path, but always mistook it for palmarum, until on 

 the morning of February 26 something prompted me to commence 



