ART. 25] NOTES ON HISPANIOLAN BIKDS — WETMORE AND LINCOLN 13 



ligea palustris vasta) we have described as new. This bird, in 

 apparently the same form, extends through the arid scrubs of the 

 adjacent Dominican coast, as we have specimens that we cannot 

 distinguish from the Beata group from Trujin and Habanero. The 

 bullfinch of Beata is smaller than that of the main island, and cannot 

 be separated so far as we can ascertain from Loxigilla violacea parishi 

 of lie a Vache. We have identified it therefore as of that race. 

 The pearly-eyed thrasher (Margarops fuscatus fuscatus) abundant on 

 Beata, is not known elsewhere in Hispaniola, though it occurs on 

 Mona and Desecheo Islands, between the Dominican Republic and 

 Puerto Rico. The presence of the burrowing owl is also worthy of 

 comment. It will be noted that todies, parrots, lizard-cuckoos, wood- 

 peckers, palm-chats, and various other birds peculiar to Hispaniola, 

 were not obtained on Beata. 



Following is the known list of the birds of the island: 



Audubon's shearwater Puffinus Iherminieri Iherminieri. 



Yellow-billed tropic-bird Phaethon lepturus catesbyi. 



West Indian brown pelican Pelecanus occidentalis occidentalis. 



Brown booby Sula leucogastra leucogastra. 



Frigate-bird Fregata magnificens rothschildi. 



Egret Casmerodius albus egreita. 



Louisiana heron Hydranassa tricolor riificollis. 



West Indian green heron Butorides virescens maculatus. 



Yellow-crowned night heron Nydanassa violacea violacea. 



Flamingo Phoenicopteriis ruber. 



Bahama pintail Dafila bahamensis bahamensis. 



West Indian red-tailed hawk Buteo jamaicensis jamaicensis. 



Ridgway 's hawk Buleo ridgwayi. 



Semipalmated plover Charadrius semipalmatus. 



Rufous-naped plover Pagolla wilsonia rufinucha. 



American black-bellied plover Sqitatarola squatarola cynosurae. 



Ruddy turnstone Arenaria interpres morinella. 



Eastern willet Catoptrophorus semipalmatus semipal- 

 matus. 



Least sandpiper Pisobia minutilla. 



Pectoral sandpii^er Pisobia melanotos. 



White-rumped sandpiper Pisobia fuscicollis. 



Semipalmated sandpiper Ereunefes pusillus. 



Sanderling Crocethia alba. 



Black-necked stilt Himantopus mexicanus. 



Laughing gull Larus atricilla. 



Gull-billed tern Gelochelidon nilotica aranea. 



Roseate tern Sterna dougallii dougallii. 



American bridled tern Sterna anaetheta recognita. 



Sooty tern Sterna fuscata fuscata. 



Least tern Sterna albifrons antillarum. 



Royal tern Thalasseus maximus niaximus. 



Cabot's tern Thalasseus sandvicensis acuflavidus. 



Noddy tern Anoiis stolidus stolidtcs. 



White-crowned pigeon Columba leucocephala. 



