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arid regions but is found regularly where rainfall is heavy. It is 

 perhaps the colibry recorded by Charlevoix in 1733, while both male 

 and female are described and figured, under distinct names, by Bris- 

 son in 1760 from specimens sent by Chervain to de Reaumur. 



In the Dominican Republic Salle found this hummer many years 

 ago about the flowers of cactus. Cory secured skins at Puerto Plata, 

 December 14, 23 and 24, 1882, and at Samana, April 5 and Septem- 

 ber 3, 1883. Tristram received three specimens from Samana taken 

 by C. G. McGrigor, in September, 1883. Cherrie found it tolerably 

 common, but Christy identified it only twice, at Samana and La 

 Vega. Verrill wrote that it was common, a statement borne out by 

 an excellent series of his taking in the collection of J. H. Fleming, 

 taken in 1907, on January 4 and 10 at Caiia Honda, January 14 at 

 El Valle, February 1 at Rio San Juan, February 3, 5, 10, 11, 12, and 

 18, and March 3, 6, 7, and 9 at Samana, March 9 at Sanchez, and 

 March 16 at La Vega. Peters secured a series of twenty at Monte 

 Cristi, Sosua, and Choco. Abbott collected it at Laguna August 7 

 and 10, and at Rojo Cabo August 30, 1916, both places being near 

 the eastern end of the Samana Peninsula. He took others near 

 Constanza September 27, 29 and 30, 1916, and April 9, and 16, 1919. 

 Wetmore, in 1927, found this species at Azua May 1 about flowers in 

 a suburban yard, at Sanchez, May 6 to 13 (a male taken May 7), 

 at La Vega May 17, and near Constanza May 21 and 22. Danforth 

 in the same year collected specimens at Santo Domingo City, Monte 

 Cristi, Laguna del Salodillo, La Vega, and San Juan. Ciferri for- 

 warded skins to Moltoni from Haina and Sabana San Thome near 

 San Juan. 



In Haiti this is the most commonly seen of the hummingbirds. 

 A. E. Younglove in 1866 collected four specimens near Port-au- 

 Prince May 9, 16, and 21, which he forwarded to the Smithsonian 

 Institution where they still remain. Cory in 1881 reported it as 

 common, and though he found it feeding or resting near the ground 

 says also that he saw it often in the tops of the tallest trees. He 

 remarks especially upon one huge tree growing in a little valley in 

 the outskirts of Petionville in whose top he frequently saw a dozen 

 of these hummers darting in and out among the top-most branches 

 at such an altitude above him that they appeared to his eye no 

 larger than flies. Bartsch in 1917 found it near the Etang Sauma- 

 tre April 3, Petit Goave April 8, near Jeremie April 10 to 12 and 15 

 and 16, near Trou des Roseaux April 13 and 14, and in the vicinity 

 of Port-au-Prince April 21, 22, and 27. At all these points except 

 Trou des Roseaux he secured specimens which were preserved in 

 alcohol with the exception of one which was made into a skin. 

 Abbott found them very common and secured an excellent series of 

 10 specimens from the main island, near Moline at an elevation of 



