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Donte, April 7; Deron, April 8 (adult male taken) ; Bois Pin Lacadonis, 

 April 9; Desbarriere, April 10; La Cour Z' Anglais, April 12; Pic de 

 Macaya, April 16, 18, and 19 (female taken); and Bois Lacombe, 

 April 24. On Macaya they were not observed above 1,500 meters 

 elevation. On lie a Vache we observed two on April 29 and one on 

 April 30. Near Belladere we recorded an adult male on May 6. 



A representation of this species is found in Edwards's Gleanings of 

 Natural History, vol. 5, 1758, pi. 257, taken from a specimen secured 

 by Thomas Stack on November 1, 1751, about 10 leagues from the 

 coast of Hispaniola. 



Family PLOCEIDAE, Weaver Finches 



TEXTOR CUCULLATUS CUCULLATUS (Mul!er) 



Black and Yellow Mantled Weaverbird 



Oriolus cucullatus P. L. S. Muller, Vollst. Natursyst., Suppl., 1776, p. 87 (Sene- 

 gal). 



Our investigations have given some additional data on the distri- 

 bution of this introduced species. On March 31 we saw several near 

 Pont de I'Estere, Haiti, and collected one. On May 5 we observed 

 a nesting colony near a house 2 kilometers north of Trouin. Near 

 Thomazeau on May 22 v/e found two colonies, one in an enclosed yard 

 above a native house and the other in a tree top at the border of a 

 road not far from the fitang Saumatre. One young bird about a 

 week old that fell from a nest and a series of adults were taken. 

 Flocks were noted feeding through the open pastures. Between 

 Port-au-Prince and L'Arcahaie on May 23, several nesting colonies 

 were observed, and little flocks of the birds were found scattered 

 through the dry scrub growth along the highway. The adult males 

 are particularly striking in appearance, their brilliant colors showing 

 especially to advantage when the birds are on the wing. 



These weavers seemed appreciably more abundant than they were 

 4 years previously. 



Family ICTERIDAE, Blackbirds and Troupials 



AGELAIUS HUMERAUS (Vigors) 



Tawny-shouldered Blackbird 



Leistes hiimeralis Vigors, Zool. Journ., vol. 3, Nov. 1827, p. 442 (near Havana, 

 Cuba). 



These blackbirds were detected only once, on March 31, at Pont 

 de I'Estere, Haiti, when an adult female was collected and another 

 seen. Tliis locality is on the plains a short distance north of the 

 Artibonite, and is the region in which the species was first discovered. 



