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North America but in general seeks perches nearer the ground. In 

 the Dominican Republic Cory found it abundant in the hills back of 

 La Vega in July, 1883. and collected it also at Samana September 10 

 and 11, and Puerto Plata November 22, 1882. Cherrie found it 

 common in the southern part of the republic and took specimens at 

 Santo Domingo City, Aguacate, Honduras, and Catarrey. Along 

 the northern coast the species seems somewhat rare as in 1916 Peters 

 secured only three specimens, at Monte Cristi, Gaspar Hernandez, 

 and Rio San Juan, and in addition observed only one other, which 

 was seen at Estero Balsa. All except one were found amid man- 

 groves. 



TV. L. Abbott found the wood pewee more common and secured an 

 excellent series. On April 10, 1922 he collected one male at an ele- 

 vation of 700 meters near Polo in the Bahoruco mountains. Three 

 were taken at San Lorenzo on Samana Bay July 28 and September 

 9, 1916, and March 19, 1919. One was shot at Jarabacoa October 14, 

 1916, two at El Rio October 4 and 8, 1916 and six at Constanza Sep- 

 tember 25, 27, and 28, 1916, and April 10 and 12, 1919. In 1927 

 Wetmore secured one in the mangrove swamps at the mouth of the 

 Arroyo Barrancota opposite Sanchez, and found them fairly numer- 

 ous in the forested hills of the Samana Peninsula at an elevation of 

 450 meters. Near Constanza from May 19 to 26 they were common, 

 and others were recorded at El Rio May 30. In the great forests oi 

 pine about Constanza he heard on many occasions a mournful call 

 of considerable carrying power coming from the tops of the pine 

 trees, a note of several syllables that may be written pw pip pip pip 

 After several days of search he traced it to the quiet little wood 

 pewee, which was entirely unexpected as the author, but when this 

 was once established the circumstance seemed quite natural as the 

 call is suggestive of that of a North American flycatcher that resides 

 in similar haunts, the olive-sided flycatcher {Nuttallomis mesoleucus) . 

 From further observation he found that the wood pewee of His- 

 paniola has other notes of a varied character so that its voice has 

 considerable range in sound production. Danforth in 1927 collected 

 two at Seibo July 4 to 6, saw others at Santo Domingo City, and 

 collected one at San Juan July 11. Ciferri collected one at San 

 Juan July 7, 1929, and two at an elevation of 1,200 to 1,500 meters 

 on Monte Viejo, May 25 to 28, 1929, one of the latter being a young 

 individual. 



The type specimen of this species was secured in the hills back of 

 Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in all probability somewhere above Petion- 

 ville, on June 6, 1866, by A. E. Younglove, and the bird was de- 

 scribed by Dr. Henry Bryant in the following year. It is possible 

 that the " Graukohli<jer Fliegenf an^er " which Ritter lists in 1836 



