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BULLETIN 15 5, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Gonave Island; resident. 



The present form was described from eight skins collected on 

 Gonave Island by W. L. Abbott. Three of these, taken February 20 

 and 25, 1918, are marked simply Gonave Island. Four more, includ- 

 ing the type come from Anse a Galets, March 7, 9, and 13, 1920, and 

 fitroites, March 17, 1920. Danforth collected three in 1927 and re- 

 ports that one had eaten a moth, a wasp {G hatch inserta) and a small 

 beetle. 



This form is closely similar to the bird from the main island from 

 which it differs in paler coloration, being grayer above and lighter 

 buffier below on the abdomen. The breast is gray without a wash 

 of brown. This form is similar in dimensions to the birds of the 

 main island comparative measurements in millimeters being as 

 follows : 



Blacicus h. hispaniolensis 



So far as known tacitus is confined to Gonave Island where Bond 

 reports it as common. 



ELAENIA ALBICAPILLA (Vieillot) 

 HISPANIOLAN ELAENIA 



Muscicapa albicapilla Vieillot, Hist. Nat. Ois. Ain§r. Sept., vol. 1, 1807, 

 p. 66, pi. 37 (" Saint-Domingue "=Hispaniola). 



Tyrannula albicapilla, Hartlaub, Isis, 1847, p. 609 (listed). 



Elainea cherriei Coey, Auk, 1895, p. 279 (" Calare "=Catarrey, Dominican 

 Republic). 



Elainia cherriei, Cherrie, Field Columbian Mus., Ornith. ser., vol. 1, 1896, 

 p. 17 (Catarrey, Aguacate). 



Elaina cherriei, Vebrill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1909, p. 361 

 (Miranda, specimen). 



Elaenia cherriei, Lonnberg, Fauna och Flora, 1929, p. 105 (Haiti). 



Elaenia fallax cherriei, Hellmayr, Cat. Birds Arner., Field Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 Zool. ser., vol. 13, pt. 5, April 11, 1927, p. 429 (Catarrey, Aguacate). — Bond, 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 80, 1928, p. 507 (La Selle, Morne 

 Basile).— Moltoni, Att. Soc. Ital. Scienz. Nat., vol. 68, 1929, p. 320 (Monte 

 Viejo, specimen). 



Resident in the higher hills of the interior. 



To see the little flycatcher known as the elaenia it is necessary to 

 leave the heat of the lowlands and to climb by winding trails — often 



