ART. 25] NOTES ON HISPANIOLAN BIRDS — WETMORE AND LINCOLN 55 

 DENDROICA TIGRINA (Gmelin) 



Cape May Warbler 

 Molacilla tigrina Gmelin, Syst. Nat., vol. 1, pt. 2, 1789, p. 985 (Canada). 



The Cape May warbler was common as usual at suitable localities 

 in Haiti. On March 27 one was taken at Terrier Rouge by S. W. 

 Parish, and on the following day we found them common and collected 

 two in a dry arroyo through the mesquite. They were next observed 

 on April 10, on the crest of the ridge (altitude 1,100 meters) at 

 Desbarriere, where 30 or 40 were noted and two collected. One was 

 seen on April 12 at La Cour Z'Anglais. 



Our greatest surprise, however, was to find these warblers plentiful 

 and in full song on lie a Vache from April 27 to 30, where we collected 

 several specimens. They were particularly numerous in the wild 

 almond trees that fringed the beach at Feret Bay. It was a matter for 

 repeated comment that on this little Caribbean island we heard the 

 song of tliis North American species manj' times each day, while in 

 years of observation in the vicinity of Washington, D.C., we had heard 

 it only on two or three occasions, and then in weak and lisping form 

 quite different from the finished song of the lie a Vache birds. The 

 music of these handsome warblers heard constantly at our camp was in 

 fact one of the features of our work on this island. The night of April 

 27 offered perfect conditions for migration, and on the follo\ving 

 morning there was a noticeable reduction in numbers among these 

 birds. 



W. B. Alexander has brought to Wetmore's attention a record for 

 this species overlooked in previous work. This is found in Edwards's, 

 Gleanings of Natural History, vol. 5, 1758, pi. 257, where a Cape 

 May warbler is shown in color from a specimen "taken Novem"" P* on 

 the Coast of Hispaniola, about ten Leagues from Land by Tho^ Stack 

 M. S. & F. R. S. in a Voj^age from London to Jamaica." 



DENDROICA CAERULESCENS CAERULESCENS (Gmelin) 



Black-throated Blue Warbler 



Motacilla caerulescens Gmelin, Syst. Nat., vol. 1, pt. 2, 1789, p. 960 ("S. Do- 

 minici ' ' = Hispaniola) . 



Black-throated blue warblers were noted regularly in Haiti from 

 March 30 to May 6. A fine male was seen on March 30 on Morne 

 des Mammelles, near Terrier Rouge; on April 9 one was observed near 

 the crest of the pine ridge known as Bois Pin Lacadonis a short distance 

 east of Bois Lacombe; three or four of both sexes were seen on April 

 12 at La Cour Z'Anglais; from April 14 to 20 they were noted almost 

 daily on the slopes of Pic de Macaya from 900 meters up at least as 

 high as 2,100 meters and probably ranged across the summit of the 

 mountain; a few were seen at Bois Lacombe on April 24 and a few near 



