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excitement and pain. A native boy I had with me begged to have 

 the bird, and for several hours, while he was carrying it in his hand, 

 the little creature sang almost continuously.* 



This species is frequently kept as a cage bird. 



In the series of forty-eight skins secured there are twenty-seven 

 males and twenty-one females; twenty-eight are in the black plumage 

 of the fully adult bird, the remainder are in mixed plumage. 



31. Quiscalus niger (Bodd.}. CHINCHILING Comparatively 

 few birds of this species were seen. Only thirteen specimens were 

 collected, all coming from three localities, Catare, Aguacate and San 

 Domingo City. None were seen at the other localities visited. The 

 eye is light straw yellow. 



32. Corvus leucognaphalus Daud. CUERVO The rela- 

 tive scarcity or abundance of this species in any locality depends 

 chiefly on the season and on the ripening of certain fruits on which 

 they feed. Immense flocks are found together. They are very noisy, 

 but the call note is very different from anything I have heard before. 

 The flesh is good eating, having a' very pleasant flavor, much like 

 that of certain species of wild pigeons. 



The eye in some examples I found to be light red brown, and in 

 others a bright orange red. 



33. Corvus solitarius Wurt. CAO Seen only at Maniel, 

 where great noisy flocks were found together. The cry differs some- 

 what from that of the preceding species, and resembles more the 

 chattering of some species of parrots. 



34. Elainia cherriei Cory\ Only three specimens of this new 

 flycatcher were secured. The type, a male, was taken at Catare 

 January 31, and two females, taken higher up in the mountains, at 

 Aguacate, on the 22d and 2yth of February respectively. 



The female is exactly similar to the male. 



No individuals were seen except the three that were collected. 



35. Pitangus gabbii Lawr. Only one specimen collected. 

 Taken at Honduras, April 2. Not noted at other points. 



Bill, legs and feet black; eye dusky. 



36. Blacicus hispaniolensis (Bryant.'] Pound distributed 

 in all the localities visited by me, but far more common high up in 



*Mr. Chapman, in his " Notes on Birds and Mammals, Observed near Trinidad, Cuba," gives a 

 similar instance of "song as a result of excitement" in the case of Icterus hypomelas. Bull. 

 Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., Vol. IV, No. i, p. 306. 



tAuk, Vol. XII, 1895, p. 279. 



