NO. 13 NEW BIRDS FROM HISPANIOLA WETMORE 3 



Two females, wing 84.4-91.5 (88.0), tail 83.9-89.0 (86.5), culmen 

 from base 22.8-23.6 (23.2), tarsus 30.8-31. i (31.0). 



Type, male, wing loo.o, tail 100.2, culmen from base 24.5, tarsus 

 32.8. 



Range. — Known only from the higher slopes of Morne La Hotte, 

 Haiti. 



Remarks. — The series of seven Calyptophilus in the American 

 Museum of Natural History, collected by R. H. Beck from June 20 to 

 July 4, 191 7. back of Les Anglais on the higher ridges that lead up to 

 the peak of Morne La Hotte, are so distinct in larger size and darker 

 coloration from Calyptophilus frugivorus of the rest of the island that 

 there is no question in assigning them specific rank. The new form 

 seemingly is confined to the higher slopes of the mountain range of 

 La Hotte, since during extensive collecting elsewhere it has not been 

 found. It is another of the peculiar mountain forms of Hispaniola 

 whose presence has been wholly unexpected. 



This new species is described here through the kind permission of 

 Dr. Frank M. Chapman of the American Museum of Natural History. 



PHAENICOPHILUS PALMARUM EUROUS, subsp. nov. 



Characters. — Similar to Phacnicophilus palmar iiiii palinaruin (Lin- 

 naeus)^ but lighter in color; above brighter green, with gray of hind- 

 neck lighter, becoming nearly white on sides of neck anteriorly; below 

 with white more extended. 



Description. — Type, U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 252,843, male, taken on 

 Saona Island, Dominican Republic, September 13, 1919, by Dr. W. L. 

 Abbott (in somewhat worn plumage). Crown and entire sides of head 

 jet black, except for a spot on either side of the forehead, one above 

 either eye, and the lower eyelid, which are white ; hindneck, and sides 

 a little paler than gray no. 7, the former becoming white at posterior 

 border of black covering the ear-coverts ; upper surface, including 

 exposed portions of wing and tail feathers, between pyrite yellow and 

 warbler green ; concealed portions of remiges dusky ; median under- 

 parts including the under tail-coverts extensively white ; under wing- 

 coverts smoke gray edged with white. Bill black, base of lower 

 mandible dark dull grayish; tarsus dusky neutral gray (from dried 

 skin). 



Measurements (in millimeters). — Type specimen, male, wing, 90.0, 

 tail, 67.5, culmen from base, 20.7, tarsus, 22.5. 



^ Turdus palmarum Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., cd. 12, vol. i, 1766, p. 295. (" Habitat 

 in Cayennae Palmis " ^ Hispaniola.) 



