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The Hispaniolan flycatcher, while it measures from 180 to 195 mm. 

 in length, is of slender form with long tail. It has the flat bill 

 characteristic of its family. Above it is olive brown, darker on the 

 head, light gray on the breast, and pale yellow on the abdomen. 

 The primaries are edged with chestnut brown and the secondaries 

 with whitish, and the inner webs of the tail feathers are margined 

 with chestnut. 



BLACICUS HISPANIOLENSIS HISPANIOLENSIS (Bryant) 

 HISPANIOLAN WOOD PEWEE, SIGTJA, PIPIRIT TETE FOTT 



Tyrannula carribaea (var., hispaniolensis) Bryant, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. 

 Hist., vol. 11, May, 1S67, p. 91 (Port-au-Prince, Haiti). 



TMuscicapa gu&rula, Rittee, Naturh. Reis. Westind. Insel Hayti, 1836, p. 156 

 (Haiti, specimen). 



Contopus frazari Cory, Bull. Nuttall Ornith. Club, 1883, p. 94. (Puerto 

 Plata, Dominican Republic, described as new) ; Birds Haiti and San Domingo, 

 July, 1SS4, pp. 81-82 (discussion). 



Contopus hispaniolensis, Cory, Birds Haiti and San Domingo, July, 1884, pp. 

 81-82, col. fig. (La Vega, Puerto Plata, Samana, specimens). — Tippenhauer, 

 Die Insel Haiti, 1892, p. 321 (listed). 



Sayornis dominicensis Cory, Bull. Nuttall Ornith. Club, 1883, p. 95 (Magna, 

 Dominican Republic; described as new) ; Birds Haiti and San Domingo, July, 

 1884, pp. 81-82 (discussion). 



Blacicus hispaniolensis, Cory, Cat. West Indian Birds, 1892, p. 109 (Haiti, 

 Dominican Republic). — Cherrie, Field Columbian Mus., Ornith. ser., vol. 1, 1896, 

 pp. 17-18 (Dominican Republic). — Verrill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 1909, p. 361 (Dominican Republic). — Peters, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 61, 

 1917, p. 415 (Monte Cristi, Gaspar Hernandez, Rfo San Juan, specimens). — 

 Danforth, Auk, 1929, p. 370 (Seibo, Santo Domingo City, San Juan). — Lonn- 

 berg, Fauna och Flora, 1929, p. 105 (Haiti). — Moltoni, Att. Soc. Ital. Scienz. 

 Nat, vol. 68, 1929, p. 320 (San Juan, Monte Viejo, specimens). 



Blacicus caribacus hispaniolensis, Hellmayr, Cat. Birds. Amer., Field Mus. 

 Nat. Hist., Zool. ser., vol. 13, 1927, p. 205 (Santo Domingo City, La Vega, 

 Aguacate, Honduras, Samana, La Laguneta, Magua, Catarrey, Maiman, Puerto 

 Plata, specimens). — Bond, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 80, 1928, 

 p. 506 (Haiti). 



Resident; fairly common, particularly in the forested hills of the 

 interior. 



The wood pewee is an inhabitant of thickets and woodlands where 

 it rests quietly on open perches, usually near the ground but occa- 

 sionally thirty or forty feet above it, and watches for its food of 

 flying insects which it flies out and captures expertl}- with a snap of 

 the bill, and then circles back to its perch. Aside from these sallies 

 for food it is quiet and will pass unnoticed except to those of keen 

 and attentive perception. It is most easily seen in early morning 

 when it comes out into more open lands than at any other time as 

 in the heat of the day it remains at rest, frequently in the shadow of 

 dense coverts. The bird has the mannerisms of the wood pewees of 



