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hobes, Hinche to St. Michel, Cap-Haitien (Wetmore) ; Caracol 

 (Wetmore, Bond) ; L'Atalaye, St. Michel, St. Kaphael, Fort 

 Liberie, St. Marc, Cerca-la-Source (Poole and Perrygo) ; Riv- 

 iere Bar, Bombardopolis, Jean Rabel Anchorage, Moustique, 

 Tortue Island (Abbott) ; Gonave Island (Abbott, Danforth, 

 Poole and Perrygo) ; Navassa Island (Ekman). 



The gray kingbird outside the breeding season gathers frequently 

 at night in central roosts to which many individuals may come. As 

 the birds congregate in the evening they utter continual vociferous 

 calls, often rising to circle in the air, and then settle again in the tree 

 tops where they spend the night. At day break they are very noisy 

 again for a time and then disperse to their feeding grounds for the 

 day. 



The principal nesting season appears to come from April to June, 

 though Vieillot reports that they nest irregularly. He records the 

 number of eggs as three to four. Cory reports a nest April 18, 1883, 

 with three fresh eggs, and another May 20 with two eggs. Christy 

 observed nests with young during June. The last two authors de- 

 scribe the nest as constructed of small twigs loosely placed together. 



At Baie des Moustiques on May 8, 1917, Abbott collected three sets, 

 two of two and one of three eggs. One of these came from a nest in 

 a mangrove ten feet above high water mark, and another from an 

 acacia ten feet from the ground. A nest that he took here eight feet 

 above high water in a mangrove is a flat structure of small twigs 

 about 240 mm. in diameter by TO mm. high with an inner cup, com- 

 posed of long fine strands of rootlets coiled in a circular manner, 85 

 mm. in diameter by 35 mm. deep. The three sets of eggs taken 

 measure as follows (in millimeters) 26.0 by 18.3, and 26.0 by 18.7 

 (one broken egg not measured) ; 23.5 by 17.8, and 24.3 by 17.7; 26.5 

 by 17.7 and 26.9 by 17.3. On June 1, 1917 he collected a set of two, 

 from a nest ten feet from the ground in a low tree near the seashore, 

 that measure 24.7 by 18.0 and 27.2 by 18.0. Two eggs secured on 

 Tortue Island May 19, 1917, from a slightly built nest of twigs 8 feet 

 from the ground in a mangrove have the following dimensions : 22.7 

 by 17.5 and 23.5 by 17.7. There is a further set of four eggs from 

 Haiti without definite date or locality that measure as follows: 23.6 

 by 17.2, 25.3 by 18.4, 25.5 by 18.5 and 25.8 by 18.5 mm. The eggs are 

 elliptical oval in form and in color vary from white tinged with 

 ivory yellow to very pale pinkish buff, spotted boldly with vinaceous 

 russet, burnt umber, natal brown, and purplish gray, the markings 

 being heaviest about the larger end. 



On May 6, 1927 Wetmore saw a gray kingbird carrying nesting 

 material into a mangrove near Sanchez, and on May 26 near Con- 

 stanza he observed an occupied nest 40 feet from the ground on the 



