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This egg is somewhat more heavily marked than the one described 

 above and measures 30.2 by 21.8 mm. The eggs are strikingly and 

 handsomely colored. 



Wetmore in 1927 found this thrush very common in coffee planta- 

 tions about Fonds-des-Negres from March 31 to April 5. Males 

 were singing and the breeding season was evidently in progress. On 

 April 2 one rested for a time in the limbs of a tree holding a beak 

 full of dead leaves, while it jerked its wings and tail nervously. 

 Finally it flew to the side of a large epiphyte fifteen meters from 

 the ground and deposited its burden on the foundation of a nest. 

 The nest site was in a tree with foliage mainly at the tips of the 

 branches so that the interior limbs were open. It stood at the edge 

 of a clearing with a little house only a few yards away. On April 

 5 one was seen carrying food to young in another locality. On 

 April 9 on the Riviere Jaquisy below Furcy one was singing, and 

 from April 10 to 15 the species was common on the high summit of 

 La Selle. The song of this thrush was one of the early bird songs 

 heard about camp there and came to the ear at the first hint of 

 day. The notes are labored in utterance but are given steadily, and, 

 in spite of occasional harsh breaks, the whole is pleasing. The call 

 note is a low peep peep. During the day when all was quiet these 

 thrushes appeared near camp on the ground in the open. In their 

 usual method of progression they ran rapidly for a few feet and 

 then stopped abruptly with the head held erect. The mannerisms 

 are wholly those of a robin. Where seen clearly the white under 

 tail-coverts are prominent while in flight the white spots at the ends 

 of the outer tail feathers are displayed plainly. The birds often 

 perched in the tops of dead trees but at any alarm dropped quickly 

 into the thickets below where they remained carefully concealed. 

 The thrush was observed April 17 at Chapelle Faure in Nouvelle 

 Touraine, and April 20 on Morne a Cabrits. On April 24 it was 

 common at the Bassin Zime but none were seen in the immediate 

 vicinity of Hinche. It was recorded April 26 and 27 at Poste Char- 

 bert near Caracol. In 1927 Danforth found it at Fonds-des-Negres 

 and near the Citadelle, and on July 18 saw an adult accompanied by 

 young on the wing on Gonave. Bond found this species widely 

 distributed in Haiti from sea level to the tops of the mountains, and 

 on Gonave and Tortue. In 1928 birds were in breeding condition 

 on Tortue in March, and nests were seen in southern Haiti in May 

 and June. In an adult male taken by Wetmore at Fonds-des-Negres 

 April 2, 1927, the bill and free margins of the eyelids were coral red ; 

 tarsus, toes, and claws slightly paler red ; iris reddish brown. Dan- 

 forth records that in the stomach of one he found a seed and two 

 cockroaches (one of them Epilampra saublosa), and in another four 



