ART. 25] NOTES ON HISPANIOLAN BIRDS — WETMOItE AND LINCOLN 53 



examine near-by leaves critically, and then continuing to another 

 location. As they are small and inconspicuously colored they are 

 thus difficult to see in the dense growths that they inhabit, and it 

 was only by following up their songs, and standing quietly for several 

 minutes to watch, that we could locate them. Their flight was 

 undulating. 



The song has a distinct resemblance to the trill of a pine warbler. 

 One that was observed near at hand for several minutes sang with 

 wings drooped, occasionally throwing the tail above the level of the 

 back. Their call note resembled the syllable zhree uttered in a very 

 low tone, a distinctly vireonine call. Specimens taken were in breed- 

 ing condition. 



From present information it appears that this species inhabits 

 low forests growing over limestone hills. 



Both sexes have pale, straw-yellow eyes. 



One of the specimens taken, collected by S. W. Parish, is a juvenile 

 female in molt in first fall plumage, a few light brownish-olive feathers 

 remaining on the crown and hind neck to indicate the color of the 

 Juvenal dress. Wetmore " has remarked that there seemed to be 

 two color phases in this species, one in which the under surface is 

 yellow and one in which it is white. From examination of this young 

 bird it develops that the supposed white phase is in reality the first 

 fall plumage, as the young bird has the feathers of the under surface 

 largely white. The type specimen taken years ago by Gabb in the 

 Dominican Republic is white below and is therefore an immature 

 bird in first fall dress. The remaining skins in our series from Terrier 

 Rouge are all strongly suffused with yellow below. 



Family COEREBIDAE, Honey-creepers 



COEREBA BANANIVORA BANANIVORA (Gmelin) 



HisPANioLAN Honey-creeper 



Motacilla bananivora Gmelin, Syst. Nat., vol. 1, pt. 2, 1789, p. 951 (Hispaniola). 



Near Trou, Haiti, we found this bird on March 26, and at Terrier 

 Rouge encountered it on March 27 and 28. In the La Hotte region 

 in April it was common in forested areas, and was one of the few 

 small birds that ranged in the wet forests of the Pic de Macaya to 

 the summit of the mountain. On lie a Vache it was very common 

 from April 28 to 30, and it seemed to us that the song was louder 

 and more emphatic than that of the honey-creepers we had seen 

 during the previous week around La Hotte. Specimens taken, how- 

 ever, in good series, do not seem to dift'er from those from the main 

 island. One young bird, fully grown but in juvenile dress, was 



11 U. S.Nat. Mus.Bull. 155, 1931, p. 358. 



