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buff margined distantly with black. Elsewhere the plumage is that 

 of the adult. 



The solitaire is from 185 to 195 mm. long of slender form with 

 long tail. In general it is grajr, darker above and paler below, with 

 throat and under tail-coverts chestnut, chin and malar streak white 

 and outer tail feathers tipped with white. 



Family BOMBYCILLIDAE 



BOMBYCILLA CEDRORUM Vieillot 

 CEDAR, WAXWING 



Bombycilla cedrorum Vieillot, Ois. Amer. Sept., vol. 1, 1807 (1808), p. 88, 

 pi. 57 (Eastern North America) ? 



Ampelis cedrorum, Moltoni, Att. Soc. Ital. Scienz. Nat., vol. 68, 1929, pp. 

 320-321 (Bonao, specimens). 



Migrant from North America; abundance not certain. 



Dr. Edgardo Moltoni of the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale in 

 Milan writes that he has received three specimens of the cedar 

 waxwing taken by the Ciferri brothers at Piedra Blanca near 

 Bonao, Dominican Republic, in January, 1926. There is no other 

 record for the island. 



The cedar waxwing from 140 to 160 mm. in length, is brownish 

 fawn color, grayer on the back and still grayer on the wings, with 

 the forehead, chin and a line through the eye black, the under tail- 

 coverts white, and a yellow band across the end of the tail. Some 

 individuals have small red tips that appear like bits of sealing wax 

 at the ends of the secondary feathers and more rarely on the tips of 

 the tail feathers. There is a distinct crest. 



Family DULIDAE 



DULUS DOMINICUS DOMINICUS (Linnaeus) 



PALM-CHAT, SIGUA PALMERA, SIGUA DE PALMA, OISEAU PALMISTE, 



ESCLAVE 



Tanagra dominica Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, vol. 1, 1766, p. 316 ("Do- 

 minica "=Hispaniola). — Descouktilz, Voy. Nat., vol. 2, 1809, p. 68 (Go- 

 nai'ves). — Lafkesnaye, Rev. Mag. Zool., 1851, pp. 585-590 (notes large feet; 

 habits). 



Palm-tree bird, Wimpffen, Voy. Saint Domingo, 1817, p. 18S (listed). 



Paxaro comunero, Oviedo, Hist. Gen. Nat. Indias, Libr. 14, cap. 5 ; reprint, 

 Madrid, 1851, p. 444 (nesting babits). 



Esclave, Montbeillard, in Buffon, Hist. Nat. Ois., vol. 4, 1778, pp. 263-264 

 (description). — Descouktilz, Voy. Nat., vol. 2, 1S09, p. 206 (listed). 



Oiseau Palmiste, Descourtilz, Voy. Nat., vol. 2, 1809. pp. 205-207 (evidently 

 Dulus, though reference is made to Brisson's Palmiste d tete noire, which is a 

 Phaenicophilus) . 



Tanagra, de St. Domingue, Daubenton, Planch. Enl., pi. 152, fig. 2 (col. plate). 



