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Abbott collected a male at Sanchez, D. R., February 12, 1919, 

 that measures as follows : wing 176.0, tail 62.0, culmen 59.0, tarsus 

 51.0 mm. And a male secured by Poole and Perrygo at Fort Liberte, 

 Haiti, February 12, 1929, has the following dimensions : wing 178.0, 

 tail 66.3, culmen 61.9, tarsus 49.3 mm. These are distinctly larger 

 than specimens of the resident form B. v. maculatus secured at the 

 same time, and in addition are decidedly darker in color on the sides 

 of the neck and on the abdomen. 



Apparently the green heron of eastern North America comes regu- 

 larly to the island. 



There is also one record of a bird of this form taken at Fajardo, 

 Porto Rico, February 16, 1899 26 so that the subspecies may occur 

 casually in winter in the two eastern islands of the Greater Antilles. 



The characters of this form as distinguished from the West In- 

 dian little green heron are indicated above. 



BUTORIDES VIRESCENS MACULATUS (Boddaert) 



WEST INDIAN GREEN HERON, MARTINETE, GARZA MORADA, CRABIER, 

 CRACRA, RACRAC, VALET DE CAIMAN 



Cancroma maculata Boddaert, Table Planch. Enl., 1783, p. 54 (Martinique, 

 Lesser Antilles). 



Crabier, Saint-Mery, Descript. Part. Franc, lie Saint-Doiningue, vol. 1, 

 1797, pp. 262, 717 (Dondon, Port-de-Paix). — Descourtilz, Voy. Nat, vol. 2, 1809, 

 pp. 230-231 (common). 



Ardea cracra, Descourtilz, Voy. Nat., vol. 2, 1809, p. 66 (Pont de l'Estgre). 



Ardea virescens, Bryant, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 11, May, 1867, p. 

 97 (Dominican Republic).— Cory, Bull. Nuttall Ornith. Club, 1881, p. 155 

 (Port-au-Prince, specimen) ; Birds Haiti and San Domingo, Dec, 1884, p. 155 

 (Gantier, Port-au-Prince). — Tristram, Ibis, 1884, p. 168 (Dominican Republic, 

 specimen). — Tippenhauer, Die Insel Haiti, 1892, p. 323 (listed). — Cherrie, 

 Field Columbian Mus., Ornith. ser., vol. 1, 1896, p. 25 (common). — Christy, 

 Ibis, 1897, pp. 339-340 (common). 



Butorides virescens, Salle, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1857, p. 236 (listed). — 

 Tristram, Cat. Coll. Birds belonging H. B. Tristram, 1889, p. 270 (Dominican 

 Republic, specimen ) .— Beebe, Zool. Soc. Bull., vol. 30, 1927, p. 139; Beneath 

 Tropic Seas, 1928, pp. 108-219 (common). 



Butorides virescens virescens, Moltoni, Att. Soc. Ital. Scienz. Nat., vol. 68, 

 1929, p. 309 (Bonao, specimens). 



Butoroides virescens maculata, Verrill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 1909, p. 356 (abundant). 



Butorides virescens maculatus, Peters, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 61, 1917, 

 p. 398 (Monte Cristi, Sosua, specimens).— Bond, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila- 

 delphia, vol. 80, 1928, p. 490 (Etang Miragoane, Trou Caiman, Port-de-Paix, 

 Gonave Island). — Danforth, Auk, 1929, p. 360 (common). 



28 See Wetmore, Birds Porto Rico and Virgin Islands, New York Acad. Sci., Scient. 

 Surv. Porto Rico and Virgin Islands, vol. 9, 1927, pp. 295-296. 



