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fairly large branch of a prickly legume. It contained two eggs. 

 Poole and Perrygo secured specimens at L'Atalaye January 8, Fort 

 Liberte February 6, Pont Sonde February 27, Cerca-la Source March 

 24, and at En Cafe on Gonave Island March 6, 7, 8 and 10, 1929. 

 The birds from Tortue and Gonave Islands seem identical with those 

 of the large island. Females of these hummers are subject to con- 

 siderable adventitious staining from the flowers at which they feed. 



Dr. R. Ciferri, Director of the Estacion Nacional Agronomica at 

 Moca, has presented to the United States National Museum a male 

 of this hummer taken by E. Ciferri at San Juan de la Maguana, 

 Dominican Republic, February 10, 1930 that in general is like the 

 female with a few green feathers of the adult male dress growing in 

 on the foreneck. The bird is said to have been sexually adult. It 

 appears from this skin, the only immature male seen, that in this 

 species the male in first plumage resembles the female. The skin 

 forwarded by Ciferri is seemingly in molt from the juvenal stage 

 into full adult dress. 



This species which is as has been said the largest hummer on the 

 island measures from 115 to 135 mm. in length, with the bill 23 to 27 

 mm. long. The male is shining green above, on the sides, and on 

 the throat, black with a tinge of blue elsewhere underneath, with a 

 few white feathers on the flanks. The tail is coppery colored on the 

 inner web of the feathers. The female is whitish below with white 

 tips on the tail feathers. 



Order TROGONIFORMES 



Family TROGONIDAE 



TEMNOTROGON ROSEIGASTER (Vieillot) 



HISPANIOLAN TROGON, PIRAGUA, PAPAGAYO, COTORRITA DE SIERRA, 

 NATIONAL, CALEgON ROUGE, DAME OR DEMOISELLE ANGLAISE, PIE DE 



MONTAGNE 



Trogon roseigaster Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., vol. 8, 1817, p. 314 

 (Hispaniola). — Salle, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1857, p. 235 (Dominican Repub- 

 lic). — Bryant, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 11, May, 1S67, p. 95 (Domi- 

 nican Republic). 



Couroucou a ventre rouge (part), Buffon, Hist. Nat. Ois., vol. 8, 1779, pp. 

 289-291 (habits). 



Trogon rhodogaster Temminck, Nouv. Rec. Planch. Col. Ois., vol. 3, livr. 63, 

 November, 1825, in text for genus Trogon (Based on Buffon). 



Temnotrogon roseigaster, Cory, Birds Haiti and San Domingo, July, 1S84, 

 pp. 95-97, col. pi. (La Vega, specimens) ; Cat. West Indian Birds, 1892, p. 103 

 (Dominican Republic) ; Auk, 1895, p. 279 (Dominican Republic). — Tippenh alter, 

 Die Insel Haiti, 1892, p. 322 (listed).— Cherrie, Field Col. Mus., Ornith. ser., 

 vol. 1, 1896, p. 19 (Aguacate, specimens). — Christy, Ibis, 1897, p. 330 (re- 

 ported). — Verrill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1909, p. 359 (La Vega, 



