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Perroquet, Ohxmelin, Hist. Avent. Flibustiers, vol. 1, 1775, pp. 355-356, (com- 

 mon). — Saint-Mery, Descrip. Part. Frang. lie Saint-Domingue, vol. 1, 1797, 

 pp. 262, 717 (Dondon, Port-de-Paix). 



Papegai & bandeau rouge, Descotjrttlz, Voy. Nat., vol. 2, 1809, pp. 201-202 

 ( recorded ) . 



Paroquet, Beck, Nat. Hist., vol. 21, 1921, pp. 41, 46 (Ttibano). 



fPsittacus rufirostris, Ritteb, Naturh. Reis. Westind. Insel Hayti, 1836, p. 155 

 (listed). 



Psittacus guyanensis, Ritter, Naturh. Reis. Westind. Insel Hayti, 1836, pp. 

 151, 155 (specimen). 



Psittacus chloropterus, Bryant, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 11, May 

 1867, p. 96 (Dominican Republic). 



Conurus guyanensis, Hartlaub, Isis, 1847, p. 610 (Hispaniola). 



Conurus euo-ps, Tristram, Ibis, 1884, p. 168 (Dominican Republic). 



Conurus chloropterus, Salle, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1857, p. 234 (Dominican 

 Republic). — Cory, Birds Haiti and San Domingo, December, 1884, pp. 113-114, 

 col. pi. (descriptions, habits) ; Cat. West Indian Birds, 1892, p. 101 (Dominican 

 Republic) ; Auk, 1895, p. 279 (listed). — Tristram, Cat. Coll. Birds belonging 

 H. B. Tristram, 1889, p. 272 (Dominican Republic, specimen). — Tippenhauer, 

 Die Insel Haiti, 1892, pp. 318, 322 (listed).— Cherrie, Field Columbian Mus., 

 Ornith. ser., vol. 1, 1896, p. 121 (not common, specimens). — Christy, Ibis, 1897, 

 p. 334 (Yuna).— Verrill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1909, p. 359 (El 

 Valle, Matanzas). 



Aratinga chloroptera, Lonnberg, Fauna och Flora, 1929, p. 102 (Haiti). 



Aratinga chloroptera chloroptera, Beebe, Zool. Soc. Bull., vol. 30, 1927, p. 140 ; 

 Beneath Tropic Seas, 1928, p. 221 (recorded). — Bond, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Philadelphia, vol. 80, 1928, p. 499 (Port-au-Prince, La Selle, Ennery, Massif 

 du Nord, St. Michel).— Danforth, Auk, 1929, pp. 366-367 (abundant).— 

 Moltoni, Att. Soc. Ital. Scienz. Nat., vol. 68, 1929, p. 315 (San Juan, specimens). 



Resident; common in the high mountains of the interior, locally 

 distributed elsewhere. 



In the early history of Hispaniola paroquets were found in num- 

 bers. Oviedo speaks of them as common and says that the Indians 

 called them xaxdbes. Oexmelin reported them in flocks and writes 

 that they nested in old woodpecker holes or other cavities in trees, 

 laying three or five eggs, or rarely seven. He supposed that they 

 deposited eggs always in odd numbers. In the nineteenth century 

 paroquets seem to have become rare in the coastal region and lower 

 hills, as Salle secured only one specimen and saw few others. Cherrie 

 reported few and secured only four. Natives reported the species 

 to him as abundant at certain seasons which probably indicates that 

 flocks descended at times from the interior mountains. Christy in 

 1895 observed several small flocks in the Yuna swamps. Verrill 

 considered them rare and found them only at El Valle and Matanzas. 

 Cory secured a number at Samana March 12, April 3, 7, 9 and 18, 

 and September 3, 1883, three of these skins being now in the United 

 States National Museum. Beck collected a series on Loma Tina 

 and at Tubano, in December, 1916 and January 1, 1917. Abbott 



