ART. 25] NOTES ON HISPANIOLAN BIRDS — WETMORE AND LINCOLN 63 



Penard ^^ were correct in indicating that Vieillot's name applies to 

 the spindahs of the Bahamas. On checking over Vieillot's account, 

 it is found that his description is that of the Bahaman bird, since it 

 is indicated throughout that the species described has a black back, 

 Spindalis zena of the Bahamas being the only species of the genus 

 with this marking. The form of Hispaniola must therefore be 

 known as Spindalis dominicensis (Bryant). 



PHAENICOPHILUS POLIOCEPHALUS POLIOCEPHALUS (Bonaparte) 



Gray-crowned Palm Tanager 



Dulus poliocephalus Bonaparte, Rev. Mag. Zool., 1S51, p. 178 (Haiti). 



On April 11 we observed two of these birds in thickets near the 

 river at La Cour Z' Anglais, and from April 13 to 20 recorded them as 

 fairly common on the slopes of the Pic de Macaya, where they rai:iged 

 from the forest border above our camp to the summit of the mountain. 

 They were found in the upper tree branches, where the}^ worked 

 actively about in search of food. Four specimens were secured. 

 Others were seen at Bois Lacombe on April 24, and on April 25 and 

 26 we found them along the trail between Les Glaces and Post Avance. 



PHAENICOPHILUS POLIOCEPHALUS TETUAOPES Wetmore and Lincoln 



Ile A Vache Palm Tanager 



Phaenicophilus poliocephalus telraopes Wetmore and Lincoln, Auk, vol. 49 

 1932, p. 36 (lie a Vache, Haiti). 



In the study of the palm tanagers obtained on lie a Vache by the 

 Parish Expedition of 1930, ^" it appeared that these birds were some- 

 what different from those of the adjacent Tiburon Peninsula, but 

 with only one adult and two immature birds at hand the characters 

 that mark this race were not clearly evident. With this in mind we 

 made definite effort to collect specimens, and between April 28 and 30 

 we secured seven adult birds. These are sufficient to demonstrate 

 that the bird of lie a Vache differs from P. p. poliocephalus in having 

 the gray of the upper surface, crown, and hind-neck lighter, the dorsal 

 surface lighter green, and the abdomen more whitish. The bill is 

 slightly longer. Curiously enough the paler coloration of this new 

 race is in the direction of P. p. coryi of Gonave Island, but as this is 

 on the opposite side of the Tiburon Peninsula there can be no definite 

 connection between the two. One bird in the Abbott collections from 

 Grande Cayemite Island shows some approach to P. p. tetraopes in 

 lighter coloration, but it can have no direct connection since this 

 locality likewise is on the north side of the Tiburon Peninsula, opposite 

 Gonave. 



" Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 67, June 1925, p. 207. 



" Proc.U.S.Nat.Mus., vol. 81 , art. 2, July 22, 1932, p. 39. 



