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Gallinula chloropus cachinnans, Peters, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 61, 1917, 

 p. 402 (El Batey, Yasica River).— Beebe, Zool. Soc. Bull., vol. 30, 1927, p. 139; 

 Beneath Tropic Seas, 1928, p. 219 (Etang Saumatre, Etang Miragoane). 



Gallinula chloropus (cercerisf), Moltoni, Att. Soc. Ital. Scienz. Nat., vol. 68, 

 1929, p. 312 (Bonao). 



Resident ; locally common in freshwater marshes. 



Salle found this gallinule at the mouth of the Rio Haina. Abbott 

 secured a male and a female, both adult, at Laguna Rincon, near 

 Cabral, where the birds were plentiful, on March 16 and 17, 1922, 

 and a male in immature dress at Sanchez on February 7, 1919. 

 Peters reported this gallinule as rather common in the lagoons and 

 sluggish streams of the north coast, and collected two females at 

 El Batey, April 5, where in a large lagoon he noted adults accom- 

 panied by young still in black down. On the same day in riding 

 from El Batey to Cabarete he saw a flock of a dozen resting on the 

 bank of the Rio Yasica. Verrill reported this gallinule as common 

 but gave no localities. Danforth, in 1927, collected two at the 

 Laguna del Salodillo June 26, and on July 3 saw a pair with four 

 downy young at Los Tres Ojos de Agua, near Santo Domingo City. 

 Ciferri obtained specimens at Guerra, August 11, 1929 and on the 

 Rio Yuna near Bonao April 22, 1927. 



In Haiti, in 1799, Descourtilz found this gallinule on the Riviere 

 Estere. Abbott shot two females at Port-de-Paix, April 14, 1917, 

 a male at Trou Caiman, April 7, 1920, and a male at the Etang 

 suitable places on the Cul-de-Sac plain, as Cory in 1881 found 

 them near Gantier, and Bartsch records them from Glore on the 

 Etang Saumatre April 3, 1917, and shot one (head and feet pre- 

 served in alcohol) at Trou Caiman April 4. Bartsch found them 

 also at Trou des Roseaux on the southwestern peninsula April 13, 

 and between Port-au-Prince and St. Marc April 21 and 22. He 

 reports that on April 28 in Port-au-Prince women brought to his 

 hotel a bunch of live gallinules which they offered for sale. Abbott 

 collected an immature female at Jeremie February 8, 1918, and 

 Wetmore killed an adult male on the Etang Miragoane April 1, 



1927. Beebe found them at the Etang Miragoane and the Etang 

 Saumatre. Danforth found a nest containing one egg at the Arti- 

 bonite sloughs beyond St. Marc on July 29, 1927. Bond secured eggs 

 near Port-de-Paix in early April, and at Trou Caiman June 22, 



1928. Poole and Perrygo collected eleven at Fort Liberte February 

 14 and 15, 1929, finding the birds common in freshwater marshes 

 southwest of town. 



The Antillean gallinule is found in fresh or slightly brackish 

 marshes where it frequents sluggish channels, swimming about like 



