ABT. 2 BIEDS COLLECTED IN CUBA AND HAITI WETMORE 13 



Three specimens from Haiti prepared as skins include adults in 

 full breeding plumage taken on Petite Gonave Island on March 19 

 and Petite Cayemite on April 14. A young bird in mixed slate and 

 white dress was collected on lie a Vache on May 3. 



Of three of these birds preserved in skeleton form two were taken 

 4 miles east of Gibara, Cuba, on February 22, and another at Grand- 

 Boucan, Haiti, on April 9. Two taken at Bug Island, opposite 

 Corail, Haiti, on April 18 were preserved in alcohol. 



BUTORIDES VIRESCENS MACULATUS (Boddaert) 

 West Indian Gbeen Heron 



Cano-onia maculata Boddaert, Table Planches Enl., 1783, p. 5-1 (Martiuique, 

 Lesser Antilles). 



Two males collected above the mouth of the Rio Gibara, near the 

 town of Gibara, Cuba, on February 24 and 25, are representatives 

 of the West Indian race of this species. They have wing measure- 

 ments of 166 and 168 mm, respectively. 



Adult specimens of this heron were taken at Montet near Port 

 au Prince on March 27; on Petite Gonave Island on March 19; 10 

 miles east of Baraderes on April 6; Grande Cayemite on April 13 

 (skeleton) ; and on lie a Vache on April 28 and May 3. Three young 

 birds were taken from a nest on lie a Vache on the date last men- 

 tioned. One of these, recently from the egg, has the long down of 

 the upper surface and wings mouse gray, and of the under surface 

 white. 



NYCTANASSA VIOLACEA VIOLACEA (Linnaeus) 



Yellow-ceowned Night Heron 



Ardea violacea Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. 1, 17.58, p. 143 (South Carolina). 



A male was collected on Cayo Grande de Moa, Cuba, on March 4. 



Three in immature plumage were obtained at Baraderes, Haiti, on 

 April 10, and on Petite Cayemite Island on April 13 and 15. An 

 adult female was collected on lie a Vache on May 6, and skeletons 

 were taken at the same point April 30 and May 6. One skeleton and 

 two young in alcohol come from Bigie Bay, April 23. 



IXOBRYCHUS EXILIS EXILIS (Gmelin) 



Eastern Least Bittern 



Ardea cxilis Gmelin, Syst. Nat., vol. 1, pt. 2, 1789, p. 645 (Jamaica). 



Three were obtained at Montet near Port au Prince on March 

 27, 1930, when about 15 were observed along a small stream. The two 

 skins preserved, a pair, seem normal in coloration. 



