ART. 25] NOTES ON HISPANIOLAN BIRDS — WETMORE AND LINCOLN 19 

 NYCTANASSA VIOLACEA VIOLACEA (Linnaeus) 



Yellow-crowned Night Heron 



Ardea violacea Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. 1, 1758, p. 143 (South Carolina). 



On lie a Vache from April 28 to 30 several yellow-crowned night 

 herons were seen, and one night after dark one came stalking down 

 the beach past our camp. On Beata Island, the species was fairly 

 common from May 11 to 15, being noted usually in evening in flight 

 over the lagoons or along the coast. 



Family PHOENICOPTERIDAE, Flamingos 



PHOENICOPTERUS RUBER Linnaeus 



Flamingo 



Phoenicopterus ruber Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. 1, 1758, p. 139 (Jamaica, 

 Cuba, and Bahamas). 



On our landing at Beata Island on May 10, we were told that fla- 

 mingos came to the lagoons back of the little house where we had our 

 quarters and, after establishing our camp, on walking out in the 

 evening we were delighted to see three stalking about in shallow 

 water. The birds were observed here until our departure, coming 

 and going irregularly during the day but apparently returning each 

 night to sleep. Their tameness was a sufficient index to the remote- 

 ness of their island from the usual haunts of man, as it was a simple 

 matter to approach the birds in the open, and when they flew they 

 usually circled past us, at times within 30 yards' distance. We did 

 not disturb them though it would have been easy to collect speci- 

 mens. On the evening of May 15 at sunset, as we lay at anchor 

 offshore from the tip of the Barahona Peninsula opposite Beata, nine 

 flamingos flew slowly past with the evening light displaying their 

 beautiful plumage to particular advantage. The sailors on our sloop 

 said that the birds were common all through this section. 



On the shores of the fitang Saumatre, beyond Thomazeau, Haiti, 

 on May 23, we observed 25 flamingos feeding in a long line in shallow 

 w^ater. Aviators in the Marine Corps told us that they saw the birds 

 here regularly in passing by air. 



Order ANSERIFORMES 

 Family ANATIDAE, Ducks, Geese, and Swans 



DAFILA BAHAMENSIS BAHAMENSIS (Linnaeus) 



Bahama Pintail 



Anas bahamensis Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. 1, 1758, p. 124 (Bahamas). 



Four pintails were seen in saline lagoons on Beata Island on May 15. 



At Barahona, May 19, we examined one in cold storage that had 



been killed by George Hamor a month or six weeks previous at a 



