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secured one near St. Michel March 18, 1925. Wet more found a few 

 along the Ravine Papaye near Hinche April 20 and 23, and at the 

 Bassin Zime April 25. A few were observed near Maissade April 

 21. At Poste Charbert near Caracol, flocks were seen in evening 

 flight on April 26 and 27. Danforth saw a few at Petionville July 

 23, 1927. 



Bond recorded the paroquet at Port-au-Prince, on La Selle, the 

 Massif du Nord, and at Ennery and St. Michel. He reports a nest 

 on Morne Salnave placed in a hole in a dead pine " at least 80 feet 

 above the ground." Poole and Perrygo found paroquets common at 

 St. Michel December 21, 1928, and on December 31, collected one at 

 L'Atalaye. Another was taken at St. Raphael January 13, 1929, 

 and others were seen at Grand Riviere January 21, and Hinche March 

 17. At Cerca-la-Source four were taken March 21 and 23. 



The calls of this paroquet are higher pitched than those of the 

 native parrot so that the two are easily distinguished at a distance 

 when they may not be seen. As the paroquet raises the wings to take 

 flight the flash of red from the under wing coverts is very pleasing. 

 A few of these birds were seen in captivity with one wing clipped to 

 prevent their flying but they did not seem such favorites as cage 

 birds as the parrots. The Haitian name perrlche is a creole rendition 

 of the French perruche. 



In studying the series of skins of this bird from Hispaniola it has 

 been necessary to again consider the status of Aratinga ohloroptera 

 maugei on the basis of the single specimen from Mona Island in the 

 Field Museum, which has been available for comparison through the 

 kindness of Dr. C. E. Hellmayr. The green in this bird is faintly 

 duller on the underparts and the bill is slightly larger than the aver- 

 age. The greatest peculiarity is found in the extensive red on the 

 under primary coverts, this color pervading all of these coverts except 

 two on one side. In an extended series of chloroptera from Hispani- 

 ola proper, including those in the Field Museum, United States Na- 

 tional Museum, Academy of Natural Sciences, Tring and the American 

 Museum there are some birds that have a few of the under primary 

 coverts red but not one approaches the bird from Mona in that 

 respect. The bird from Mona, which is a female, has the following 

 measurements ; wing 162.0, tail 159.5, culmen 26.6 and tarsus 17.8 mm. 

 It, therefore, averages slightly smaller than skins from Hispaniola. 

 It may be noted here that the right wing has the tips of the two 

 longest primaries slightly broken so that this wing measures only 

 157.5 mm., which will account for this wing length given by Wetmore 

 in his Birds of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands, 80 as in earlier 



80 New York Acad. Sci., Sci. Surv. Porto Rico and Virgin Islands, vol. 9, 1927, p. 417. 



