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bright sunshine and high up at the edges of clearings or in the open. 

 But the present species was not once seen beyond the confines of 

 the endless shade of the thick forest. 



44. Temnotrogon roseigaster (Vietll.). CALANDRE I only 

 found the San Domingo Trogon in one locality, Aguacate. These 

 eight specimens were collected high up in the mountains; all are adult. 



45. Crotophaga ani Linn. JUDIO Common. 



46. Saurothera dominicensis Lafr. BOBO. One of the 

 most abundant and conspicuous of the birds of San Domingo, found 

 everywhere from the coast to the tops of the mountains, and appar- 

 ently as common in one locality as in another. Eighty specimens 

 were collected, with examples from all the points visited. 



47. Coccyzus americanus (Linn.) This is, I believe, the 

 first record of the finding of the yellow-billed Cuckoo in San Domingo. 

 It is probably not a permanent resident, as no individuals were seen or 

 heard until the first of May, when it suddenly became common at 

 Santo Domingo City. Here, in three days, the 2d, 3d and 4th of May, 

 I collected ten specimens, five males and five females. While I can 

 not consider the bird a resident, it is somewhat curious that in all of 

 the females collected the ovaries were considerably enlarged and the 

 oviduct more or less swollen, while in one example I took an egg 

 from the oviduct that would have been deposited in one or two days! 

 Evidently C. americanus breeds in San Domingo, but do birds that 

 breed here ever come as far north as the United States? 



48. Coccyzus minor (Gmel.). MONTERO This bird is only 

 tolerably common in the coast district, while back in the interior I 

 did not meet with it above an altitude of between six and eight hun- 

 dred feet. 



49. Hyetornis fieldi* Cory. Five specimens of this handsome 

 new cuckoo were collected; two came from Honduras and three 

 from Maniel. It was not observed in any other locality. I was unable 

 to make any notes in regard to the habits of the new bird, owing to 

 the fact that on the three occasions on which individuals were seen, 

 and when the five examples were secured, I was kept out of breath 

 tearing through the underbrush trying to keep my bird in sight. But 

 in manner of flight and in the peculiar way of running along the limbs 

 of the trees, where it alights, one is impressed with the similarity to 



* Hyetornis fieldi sp. nov. Cory, Auk., Vol. XII, 1895, p. 278. 



