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nests containing one hundred eggs were reported to him by country- 

 men, the latter probably an exaggeration. Cory secured one at 

 Puerto Plata November 24, 1882, and Peters collected two at Sosiia. 

 Wetmore reported them at Comendador April 30, San Juan May 1, 

 Los Alcarrizos and San Francisco de Macoris May 4, Sanchez May 

 6 to 14, and at various points between La Vega and Jarabacoa May 

 17. In the high valley at Constanza they were fairly common from 

 May 19 to 27. On one occasion a flock came through a tract of 

 pine forest flying and sailing a hundred feet or more in the air 

 and pausing to rest in the tops of the tallest trees, an unusual habit 

 in a bird that seldom rises fifty feet above the earth. On one occa- 

 sion he observed a flock of fifteen at daybreak, indication that 

 they may gather in roosts at night, as at Constanza the flocks ob- 

 served during the day did not contain more than half a dozen indi- 

 viduals. They were recorded near El Rio May 30. Moltoni reports 

 specimens received from Ciferri from Haina and Moca. 



In Haiti the ani is widely distributed and is known as perroquet 

 noir or more usually among the Creoles as bouts-tabac pronounced 

 sometimes bouts-de-tabac. Deshayes wrote to Buffon that the flight 

 of this bird was weak so that many were killed during hurricanes. 

 Cor} 7 secured an egg near Jacmel, which was greenish blue in 

 color covered irregularly with a coating of chalky white. Younglove 

 forwarded four skins from Port-au-Prince taken February 2, and 

 May 3 and 8. 1866. Bartsch found them near Glore April 3, Trou 

 Caiman April 4, Petit Goave April 8 and 9, Miragoane April 9, 

 near Jeremie April 10 to 16, Trou des Roseaux April 13 and 14, 

 and in the vicinity of Port-au-Prince April 21 to 27, 1917. Abbott, 

 who reports them as universally distributed, collected specimens 

 at Jeremie Nov. 18, 1917, Fonds Verettes April 20, 1920, and Baie 

 des Moustiques May 8, 1917. Saint-Mery in 1797 noted them from 

 near Port-de-Paix. Wetmore in 1927 found anis at Carrefour, Da- 

 mien and Sources Puantes March 29, Mont Rouis March 30, Fonds- 

 des-Negres March 31 to April 5, Etang Miragoane April 1, Aquin 

 April 3, and L'Acul April 4. On April 9 he observed several at 

 an altitude of 1600 meters on the slopes of La Selle above the Riviere 

 Jaquisy. He found them at Morne Rouge April 20, and at Hinche 

 from April 22 to 24. On the latter date an occupied nest was seen 

 in the streets of the village. At Caracol April 26 and 27 they were 

 common. G. S. Miller, jr., secured a male at St. Michel March 21. 

 1925. Danforth records them as common on Gonave and says that 

 he secured a specimen at Anse a Galets. Poole and Perrygo in 

 the winter of 1928-1929 found this species at Port-au-Prince Decem- 

 ber 16, St. Michel January 6 and 23, St. Raphael January 13, Don- 

 don Januarv 17 to 19, Fort Liberte February 6 to 12. St. Marc 



