46 BULLETIN 15 5, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



The turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) seems at one time to have been 

 feral on the island since the Baron de Wimpffen in his Voyage to 

 Saint Domingo in the years 1788, 1789 and 1790 says (p. 124) " the 

 turkeys, which the Jesuits seem only to have domesticated for them- 

 selves, had again run wild " and on the following page remarks 

 " when we are in want of game, I take my gun, go into the coverts, 

 and bring home a turkey, just as a sportsman, with you, does a 

 snipe, or a woodcock." 



Wimpffen in another place (p. 161) mentions the " Hoco " say- 

 ing further (p. 162) " the Hoco, Oco, or Oeco transported hither 

 from Cayenne, and originally from Mexico, with a plumage of 

 glossy black, except the breast which is white, and a crest of the 

 most beautiful yellow, is stronger and larger than the peacock." 



Eitter also 14 says that a curassow " Crux alector " was introduced 

 into Haiti from Mexico. 



Bond 15 lists the domestic fowl Gallus gallus with the local name 

 Poule marron with the remark that it is " said to occur near Caracol 

 in a wild state, though I never encountered it. Doctor Barbour, 

 of the Service Technique, tells me that they are smaller than the 

 average domestic fowl and are mottled in appearance." Columbus 

 included the domestic fowl among the animals that he brought to 

 Hispaniola on his second voyage in 1493. 



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The resident forms of Hispaniola divide loosely into two prin- 

 cipal groups, one of species found on the coastal plain or lower 

 hills of the interior some of whose members range at large over the 

 entire main island, and a second much smaller aggregation confined 

 to the high interior mountains. The endemic forms in the first 

 mentioned are mainly of types that range through the adjacent 

 Greater Antillean islands, with a few highly peculiar species, as, 

 Lawrencia nana and Dulus dominicus, that have no close relatives 

 elsewhere. The high mountain species, as, Loxia niegaplaga and 

 Brachyspiza capensis antillarum are highly peculiar in occurrence 

 and seem to represent remnants of an ancient general distribution 

 of these types that have become extinct in adjacent islands being 

 preserved in the upland area of Hispaniola where the elevated lands 

 are of greater extent than elsewhere in the West Indies. The actual 

 range of these mountain forms in Haiti and the Dominican Re- 

 public still remains to be accurately determined. The crossbill, 

 Elaenia, and Microligea montana are found in Haiti on the higher 

 slopes of La Selle. Possibly some other of the peculiar forms 



"Naturh. Reis. Westind. Insel Hayti, 1836, p. 150. 



18 Froc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 80, 1928, p. 520. 



