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at Tubano December 30, 1916 and February 4 to 20, 1917, and one on 

 Loma Tina January 8, 1917. Abbott secured specimens near Con- 

 stanza April 9 and 30, and May 1, and near Hondo at an altitude of 

 900 meters May 4, 1919. On April 28 he speaks of them as common 

 at Corralito near Constanza, and says that they were common else- 

 where in that region. He found them breeding in May, and on May 

 9 near Hondo, killed a female that contained an egg ready to lay. 

 The one taken April 30 had the stomach filled with locusts, mantids, 

 pentatomids, and the remains of lizards. Hartert writes that there 

 are seven skins in the Tring Museum collected by Kaempfer, an adult 

 male from Constanza taken July 31, and two males and four females 

 secured near Tubano at from 300 to 500 meters altitude between 

 August 9 and 23, 1923. 



In Haiti Abbott secured three near Moustique at from 750 to 900 

 meters altitude March 9 and 12, 1917. He saw them nowhere else 

 on the mainland but secured five on Gonave Island on February 20, 

 23, 25, and 26, 1918, and four more at Anse a Galets, March 11, and 

 fitroites March 16 and 21, 1920. They were not especially shy but 

 inhabited dense jungle where they were not easily seen except when 

 called out into view. Most of them were found on densely wooded 

 hillsides at 300 meters altitude. The stomach of one taken March 

 21, 1920 contained the remains of mice. 



Abbott records the bill as blackish above and lead colored at the 

 base of the mandible, and the tarsus as lead colored. This agrees 

 with the statement of Cherrie who writes "maxilla and point of 

 mandible is black ; eye dusky ; feet, legs and basal part of mandible 

 plumbeous." Danforth records one collected by F. P. Mathews in 

 the hills above Anse a Galets, Gonave Island, July 19, 1927 and 

 says that the stomach contains lizard remains and a few bits of 

 Coleoptera. Bond writes " not uncommon on Gonave Island. I 

 did not observe it elsewhere. The notes of this cuckoo resemble 

 the bleating of a rather large lamb from which it has derived its 

 name of Tacot cabri. It also emits at times a very strange though 

 more cuckoo-like u-wack-u-wack-u-wack-u-wdck-wdck-wdck-wdck. 

 Its flight is heavier, more labored, than that of Saurothera? 



In view of the differences that exist between the lizard-cuckoos of 

 Gonave Island and those of Hispaniola proper it is somewhat sur- 

 prising that the Hyetomis from these two localities appear identical. 

 In the present species the female is slightly larger than the male. 

 Following are comparative measurements of birds from Hispaniola 

 proper and Gonave Island : 



Haiti and the Dominican Republic : 



Males, four specimens, wing, 160.0-175.0 (167.1), tail 251.0-266.0 

 (258.3), culmen from base 35.0-36.2 (35.6), tarsus 37.0-40.4 (38.5) 

 mm. 



