peters: birds of the Dominican republic. 395 



extensively in the southern part of the island, basing on Santo Domingo 

 City and penetrating to the eenter of the island. On this expedition 

 he collected the t^\-pes of Hydornis fieldi Cory and Elainia cherriei 

 Cory (Cory, Auk, 1895, 12, p. 278). 



An annotated list of his collection was published in 1896 (Cherrie, 

 Contribution to the ornithology of San Domingo. Field Columbian 

 museum. Ornithological series, 1). It contains notes on 83 species 

 including Coccyzus americanus, previously unrecorded. 



During the winter of 1906-1907 Mr. A. H. Verrill collected in the 

 vicinity of Samana Bay. The results of his trip Notes on the birds 

 of San Domingo with a list of species, by A. E. and A. H. Verrill, were 

 published in Proc. Acad. nat. sci. Phil., 1909, 61, p. 352-366). 



This list contains 112 species, including every single species up to 

 that time described as being confined to the Island or recorded as a 

 migrant. It includes a description of Bideo iropicalis which is un- 

 doubtedly Bideo horealis jamaicensis. 



Since the preceding sketch of the ornithological history of Santo 

 Domingo was written four cognate papers have been published: 

 in the first Mr. J. H. Riley (Smithsonian misc. coll., 1 December, 

 1916, 66, no. 15, 2 pp.) describes as new Asio noctipetens, Loxia 

 viegaplaga, and Brachyspiza anfiUarum. These species were collected 

 between 23 September and 7 October, 1916 near Constanza, a section 

 of Santo Domingo not previously represented in collections. The 

 second paper by Mr. F. M. Chapman is entitled Descriptions of new 

 birds from Santo Domingo and remarks on others in the Brewster- 

 Sanford collection (Bull. Amer. mus. nat. hist., 14 May, 1917, 37, 

 P- 327-334); the new species are Oreopeleia leucomctopius, Micro- 

 siphoiwrhis (gen. nov.) brewsteri, and Microligea montana. In the 

 third paper (Smithsonian misc. coll., 12 July 1917, 68, no. 7, 3 pp.) 

 Dr. C. W. Richmond describes as new subspecies, Nyctihius griseus 

 ahhotti from Port de Pimente, and Vireo crassirostris tortugae from 

 Tortuga Island. Finally in a paper entitled Additions to the Haitian 

 avifauna (Proc. Biol. soc. .Washington, 27 July 1917, 30, p. 131-132), 

 Mr. Paul Bartsch describes as new Porzana fiaviventris hendersoni, 

 recognizes the Haitian Golden Warbler as distinct from the Jamaican 

 form (see p. 422) and also records as new to the island eleven forms, 

 six of which Ereunetes mauri, Totami-n melanolrucus, T. flampcs, Chae- 

 tura pelagica, Hirundo erythrogastra, and Dendroica petisyhamca are 

 not among those noted during my reconnaissance. 



I wish to express my thanks to Dr. C. W. Richmond of the U. S. 

 National Museum and to Mr. W. DeWitt Miller of the American 



