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Hellmayr in vol. 5 of his Catalogue of the Birds of the Americas, 

 1927 (p. 429), gives " Gonave " as a locality for this flycatcher, 

 which he informed Wetmore was based on two skins in the Tring 

 Museum. Hartert writes (in a letter) that the two specimens in 

 question were acquired in the Dalmas Collection and were collected 

 by a Monsieur Guyon and not by Dalmas. They bear a little label on 

 which is written on one side " Guyon, Oct. 1898 " and on the other 

 " Gonave, St. Domingue." The locality is in Hellmayr's hand- writ- 

 ing and is assumed to be based on verbal information received from 

 Count Dalmas when Hellmayr was packing the collection for ship- 

 ment to Tring. It seems certain that the locality is erroneously 

 attributed to Gonave Island as there is no proper range for the 

 elaenia on that island. 



The elaenia is even smaller than the wood pewee of Hispaniola 

 as it only measures from 145 to 160 mm. long. It has a long tail and 

 is slender in form but is easily told from the wood pewee by its 

 smaller, narrower bill and different coloration. Above it is greenish 

 olive gray with the wings and tail dull black, the former with two 

 whitish wing bars and whitish margins on the inner feathers, and the 

 latter edged with greenish. Below it is light grayish on the breast 

 and yellowish on the abdomen. When in the hand there may be 

 noted a concealed spot of white at the bases of the feathers of the 

 crown. 



Suborder OSCINES 



Family HIRUNDINIDAE 



LAMPROCHELIDON SCLATERI (Cory) 

 SCLATER'S SWALLOW, G0L0NDRINA, HIRONDELLE 



Hirundo sclateri Cory, Auk. 1884. p. 2 ("Santo Domingo "=La Vega, Do- 

 minican Republic) : Birds Haiti and San Domingo, March, 1884, pp. 45-47, col. 

 pi. (La Vega, specimens) : Cat. West Indian Birds, 1892, p. 115 (Dominican 

 Republic).— Tippenhauer, Die Insel Haiti, 1892, p. 321 (listed).— Christy, Ibis, 

 1897, p. 322 (La Vega ) .— Verriix, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1909, 

 p. 364 (La Vega). 



Hirundo euchrysea (var. dominieensis?) Bryant, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. 

 Hist., vol. 11, May, 1867, p. 95 (described as new from Port-au-Prince). 



Tachycineta sclateri, Cory, Auk, 1886, p. 58; Birds West Indies, 1889, p. 72 

 (description, range). 



LamprochcUdon sclateri, Ridgway, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 50, pt. 3, 1904, pp. 

 102-103 (Island of Haiti ) .—Bond, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 80, 

 1928, p. 507 (La Selle, La Hotte).— Lonnberg, Fauna och Flora, 1929, p. 105 

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

 specimens). 



Kesident in the hills of the interior ; local in occurrence. 

 This handsome swallow is found among the interior hills and is 

 greeted with delight wherever seen from its graceful actions and 



