THE BIRDS OF HAITI AND THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 291 



Descrip. Part. Frang. lie Saint-Doiningue, vol. 1, 1797, p. 717 (Port-de-Paix). — 

 Descourtilz, Voy. Nat., vol. 2, 1809, p. 68 (Gonaives). 



Pic Raye de Saint-Domingue, Buffon, Hist. Nat. Ois., vol. 7, 1780, pp. 27-28 

 (description). — Daubenton, Planch. Enl., pi. 281. 



Pic Ray6 & tete noire, de St. Domingue, Daubenton, Planch. Enl., pi. 614 

 (female). 



Pivert, Saint-Mery, Descrip. Part. Frang. lie Saint-Domingue, vol. 2, 1798, 



p. 298 (La Selle). 



Picus Dominicensis striatus Bresson, Ornith., vol. 4, 1760, pp. 65-67, pi. 4, 

 fig. 1 (" S. Domingue " ; refers to male). 



Picus Dominicensis striatus minor Bbisson, Ornith., vol. 4, 1760, pp. 67-69, 

 pi. 3, fig. 2. (" S. Domingue"; refers to female.) 



Picus striatus, Vieillot, Hist. Nat. Ois. Amer. Sept., vol. 2, 1807, pi. 114 

 (description, habits). — Ritter, Naturh. Eeis. Westind. Insel Hayti, 1836, p. 155 

 (Haiti, specimen). — Haktlaub, Isis, 1S47, p. 609 (listed). — Macquart, Ann. 

 Soc. Ent. France, 1853, pp. 657-660 (parasitized by larva of a fly). — Bryant, 

 Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 11, May, 1867, p. 96, (Dominican Republic; 

 Haiti). 



Chloronerpes striatus, Cory, Cat. West Indian Birds, 1892, p. 104 (Haiti, 

 Dominican Republic). — Cherrie, Field Columbian Mus., Ornith. ser., vol. 1, 

 1896, p. 21 (Dominican Republic). 



Melanerpes striatus, Vebeill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1909, p. 360 

 (Dominican Republic, abundant). 



Centurus striatus, Salle, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1857, p. 234 (Santo 

 Domingo City).— Cory, Bull. Nuttall Ornith. Club, 1881, p. 154 (Haiti) ; Birds 

 Haiti and San Domingo, July, 1884, pp. 111-112, 2 col. figs. (Puerto Plata, 

 Petionville). — Tristram, Ibis, 1S84, p. 168 (Dominican Republic) ; Cat. Coll. 

 Birds belonging H. B. Tristram, 1889, p. 104 (Sainana, specimens). — Tippen- 

 hauer, Die Insel Haiti, 1892, pp. 318, 322 (listed).— Christy, Ibis, 1897, pp. 

 333-334 (Dominican Republic). — Peters, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 61, 1917, 

 pp. 412-413 (Monte Christ! ; Sosua, specimens). — Kaempfer, Journ. fur Ornith., 

 1924, p. 179 (Dominican Republic). — Lonnberg, Fauna och Flora, 1929, p. 104 

 (Haiti). 



Chryserpes striatus, Miller, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 34, 1915, pp. 517- 

 520 (recognized as in distinct genus). — Beebe, Zool. Soc. Bull. vol. 30, 1927, pp. 140, 

 141; Beneath Tropic Seas, 1928, p. 222 (Haiti).— Bond, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Philadelphia, vol. 80, 1928, p. 505 (Haiti; nesting).— Danforth, Auk, 1929, 

 p. 369 (abundant).— Moltoni, Att. Soc. Ital. Scienz. Nat., vol. 68, 1929, p. 319 

 (Moca, San Juan, specimens). 



Resident; common. 



The woodpecker is a bird of strong, robust form and familiar 

 habit that is universally distributed wherever there is tree growth 

 to support it, as it ranges from mangrove swamps on the coast through 

 thorny scrubs, coffee plantations, and sparsely wooded hillsides to 

 the rolling pinelands of the interior hills and mountains seemingly 

 with no preference. It is one of the most common and easily seen of 

 the native birds. So far as known at present it is confined to the 

 main island and does not occur on Gonave and Tortue. 



To the North American naturalist the Hispaniolan woodpecker 

 in action at once suggests the melanerpine woodpeckers, while its 



