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here mainly in the forests of pine, often perching high above the 

 ground. It was seen at El Rio May 30. Danforth in 1927 found 

 this flycatcher common between Santiago and Monte Cristi, and 

 saw it also at Santo Domingo City, Seibo, and San Juan. On June 

 23 he collected a young bird recently from the nest. Bond saw one 

 nest building at Lake Enriquillo April 15, 1928. Moltoni received 

 skins from Haina and San Juan. 



In the Dominican Republic this species is called manuelito, maroa 

 or maroita, the two latter names reported only from the northern 

 part of the Republic. 



In Haiti the Hispaniolan flycatcher is somewhat more widely dis- 

 tributed than in the Dominican Republic, the dry scrubs and open 

 forests of the western part of the island seeming especially suited 

 to its needs. In 1866 A. E. Younglove collected specimens February 

 10, April 25, and May 8 and 10, which he forwarded to the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, a male shot February 10 serving as the type of 

 the species from which Bryant prepared his description published 

 in 1867. Cory collected this flycatcher at Petionville and Jacmel 

 in 1881. In April, 1917 Bartsch recorded it at Glore, Trou Caiman, 

 Petit Goave (specimen), in the vicinity of Jeremie, near Port-au- 

 Prince and at St. Marc (specimen). 



W. L. Abbott secured skins at Moustique March 4, 5, and 10, and 

 Bombardopolis March 27, 1917. He collected a small series on 

 Tortue Island February 1, 4, and 17, 1917, on Gonave Island Febru- 

 ary 19 and 24, 1918 and March 8, 1920, and one on Grande Cayemite 

 Island January 10, 1918. On May 9, 1917, at Petit Port a l'Ecu he 

 found a nest in an old woodpecker hole cut into the trunk of a tree 

 cactus about five feet from the ground. The nest was constructed 

 of cottony down and contained three eggs of which one is broken. 

 The other two measure 21.1 by 16.0 and 21.5 by 16.2 mm. At Jean 

 Rabel Anchorage June 5, 1917 native boys brought him a set of two 

 eggs together with the parent bird alive. These eggs measure 19.7 

 by 16.4 and 19.9 by 16.3 mm. The eggs are very pale ivory yellow, 

 marked heavily with mars brown, warm sepia and deep quaker drab, 

 the markings being heaviest at the larger end and tending to extend 

 in a straight line along the longitudinal axis of the egg, many being 

 so elongated as to suggest pen markings. 



It will be recalled that in the nest of the crested flycatcher of the 

 United States, which belongs to the same genus, shed snake skin 

 is almost universally found in the nesting material. Abbott noted 

 particularly that this peculiar material was not used in the nest that 

 he examined. 



G. S. Miller, jr., collected one of these flycatchers at St. Michel, 

 March 24, 1925. In 1927 Wetmore found this flycatcher at a number 



