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from Grande Cayemite Island, April 11. These agree in color with 

 the series of skins from which this subspecies was described. The 

 three localities represent new records in the distribution of this bird. 

 Measurements are as follows : 



Males: Wing, 152-154; tail, 65.4-68.7 ; culmen from base, 67.5-68.7 ; 

 tarsus, 59-59.5 mm. 



Female: Wing, 143.6; tail, 59; culmen from base, 60.8; tarsus, 

 61.9 mm. 



The specimen from Grande Cayemite is the first report of this bird 

 from that island. 



lONORNIS MARTINICUS (Linnaeus) 



Purple Gaulinxxle 

 FuUca martinica Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed, 12, vol. 1, 1766, p. 259 (Martinique). 

 A female was collected by Lee Parish on April 10 near Baraderes. 



GALLINULA CHLOROPUS PORTORICENSIS Danforth 



Antillean Gallinule 



Oallinula chloropiis portoricensis Danforth, Auk, 1925, p. 560 (Cartagena La- 

 goon, Porto Rico). 



Two skins were obtained at Montet, near Port au Prince, where 

 these birds were common, on March 27. On this date a nest con- 

 taining one egg was found. Another was collected at Petit Trou de 

 Nippes on April 9, and still another on lie a Vache on May 6. 

 Skeletons were prepared at all three localities. 



Order CHARADRIIFORMES 

 Suborder Charadrii 



Family CHARADRIIDAE, Plovers, Turnstones, and Surf-birds 



CHARADRIUS SEMIPALMATUS Bonaparte 



Semipalmated Plover 



Charadrius semipalmatus Bonaparte, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 

 5, Aug., 1825, p. 98 (Coast of New Jersey). 



A female was collected on Petite Gonave Island on March 19, and 

 two were seen at Montet, near Port au Prince, on March 28. 



PAGOLLA WILSONIA RUFINUCHA (Ridgway) 



Rufous-naped Plover 



Aeffialitis Wilsonhis var. ruflnucha Ridgway, Amer. Nat., vol. 8, Feb., 1874, p. 

 109 (Spanishtown, Jamaica). 



Two males obtained on March 4 on Cayo Grande de Moa, Cuba, 

 have the darker dorsal coloration that distinguishes the West Indian 



