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leaves and small branches, seeming more active in this way than its 

 relative. Both sexes utter the chattering call. Several specimens 

 taken are in excellent plumage. 



Order PICIFORMES 

 Family PICIDAE, Woodpeckers 



CHRYSERPES STRIATUS (Muller) 



HispANioLAN Woodpecker 



Picas slriatus P. L. S. Muller, Vollst. Naturs., Suppl. Reg.-Band, 1776, p. 91 

 (Hispaniola) . 



The woodpecker is one of the widely distributed and common native 

 birds that we observed in all the regions visited on the main island, 

 but that was not found on lie a Vache or on Beata. At Terrier Rouge, 

 from March 27 to 30, these birds were surprisingly abundant around 

 the Morne des Mammelles, and we were astonished to find a dozen 

 pairs going in and out of nesting holes in a single dead tree trunk stand- 

 ing in an open space, the holes being 3 to 10 meters from the ground 

 and in some cases less than a meter apart. There was no question 

 that the woodpeckers were colonizing, as the trunk was a veritable 

 apartment house with the birds clambering actively over its surface 

 and flying back and forth to the near-by woodland. 



In the La Hotte region in April these woodpeckers were abundant, 

 being found both in native forest and in the coffee plantations. On 

 Pic de Macaya they ranged to the summit of the mountain, and were 

 found in the plantations about its base wherever there were trees. 

 The woodpecker was one of the few species of birds that were found 

 in any abundance on the higher ridges, and its laughing calls were 

 heard regularly in traversing the rain forest. 



The species was noted regularly along the road on our journey from 

 Port-au-Prince to Barahona, Dominican Republic, and was seen in 

 fair numbers in the desert sections. 



Curiously enough, Wetmore during two extended periods of obser- 

 vation (in 1927 and 1931) did not hear this woodpecker drum as is 

 customary among its many relatives, though during the present excur- 

 sion especial attention was paid to this matter. Apparently it may 

 not have this habit. 



NESOCTITES MICROMEGAS (Sundevall) 



HiSPANIOLAN PiCULET 



Picumnus micromegas Sundevall, Conspectus avium picinarum, 1866, p. 95 

 (Hispaniola). 



On March 28 we had a glimpse of two piculets in the low scrub cov- 

 ering the Morne des Mammelles near Terrier Rouge, and on March 

 30 a male was taken by S. W. Parish. 



