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A nest found on May 13 was placed on a horizontal limb in a shrub 2 

 meters from the ground at the edge of brush bordering a saline. The 

 nest is composed of cottony plant fibers forming a deep cup, covered 

 externally with thin flakes of bark bound on with spiders' web. It 

 measures approximately 40 mm in diam.eter by 32 mm high, and rests 

 on a flat crotch where it has firm support. The two white eggs were 

 heavily incubated, so that only one is available for measurement, its 

 dimensions being 14.5 by 9.5 mm. 



Other hummers of this species were seen at Habanero, Dominican 

 Republic, May 19; at Las Cahobes, Haiti, May 20; and near L'Arca- 

 haie, May 23. 



Order TROGONIFORMES 

 Family TROGONIDAE, Trogons 



TEMNOTROGON ROSEIGASTER (Vieillot) 

 HiSPANIOLAN TrOGON 



Trogon roseigaster Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., vol. 8, 1817, p. 314 

 (Hispaniola). 



In the La Hotte region the trogon was one of the common forest 

 birds recorded daily in our travels through this area. On April 6, 

 as our pack train started up the winding trail beyond Post Avance, 

 the calls of the trogon came to us from the forested slopes above us, 

 and as we left the region by the same trail on our way out on April 25, 

 and as we came down into the colfee plantations toward Camp Perrin, 

 the same notes faded out in the distance behind. A female taken at 

 Donte on April 7 was nearly ready to lay. On the Pic de Macaya, 

 trogons were common, ranging to the summit of the mountain, being 

 especially numerous among the great pines of the higher altitudes. 

 Two males taken there were not in breeding condition so that the 

 nesting period seems to vary locally. At our camp their curious calls 

 came to us all through the day as one of the regular bird songs of the 

 forest, and the trogons themselves came daily in trees about our tent. 



Order CORACIIFORMES 

 Family ALCEDINIDAE, Kingfishers 



MEGACERYLE ALCYON ALCYON (Linnaeus) 



Belted Kingfisher 



Alccdo alcyon Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. 1, 1758, p. 115 (North America). 



On March 25 we noted a kingfisher on the Limbe River, near Limbe, 

 Haiti, and the following day observed one at the border of a lagoon 

 near Cap-Haitien. One was seen on April 12 at the inland locality of 

 La Cour Z'Anglais on the Anglais River at an elevation of 600 meters 



