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Grive de la Guyane, Montbeillard, in Buffon, Hist. Nat. Ois., vol. 3, 1775, 

 p. 2S9 (description). 



Passer maculosus Feuillee, Journ. Observ. Phys., vol. 3, 1725, pp. 3S6-387 

 (Haiti). 



Tangara Dominicensis Bresson, Ornith., vol. 3, 1760, pp. 37-38, vol. 2, fig. 4 

 (described from " S. Domingue"). 



Turdus gujanensis Gmelin, Syst. Nat., vol. 1, pt. 2, 1789, p. 809 (based on 

 Buffon). 



Turdus guianensis, Hitter, Naturh. Reis. Westind. Insel Hayti, 1836, pp. 

 152, 156 (specimen).— Tippenhauer, Die Insel Haiti, 1892, p. 320 (listed). 



Tanagra mancipium Hermann, Tabl. Aff. Anim., 1783, p. 211 (based on 

 l'esclave of Buffon). 



Taugara dominica, Bitter, Naturh. Reis. Westind. Insel Hayti, 1836, p. 156 

 (listed). 



Dulus palmarum Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., vol. 10, 1817, p. 435 (de- 

 scription) ; Gal. Ois., pt. 2, 1824, pp. 237-238 (habits, description). 



Dulus dominicensis, Hartert, Nov. Zool., vol. 9, 1902, p. 293 (Sanchez). 



Dulus dominions, Hartlaub, Isis, 1847, p. 609 (listed). — Strickland, in 

 Jardine's Contr. Ornith., 1851, pp. 103-104 (placed in family Ampelidae). — 

 Salle, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1857, p. 232 (listed). — Bryant, Proc. Boston Soc. 

 Nat. Hist., vol. 11, May, 1867, p. 92 (Dominican Republic, Haiti). — Tristram, 

 Ibis, 1884, p. 168 (Dominican Republic, specimen) ; Cat. Coll. Birds belong. 

 H. B. Tristram, 1889, p. 203 (Samana, Rivas, specimens). — Cory, Bull. Nut- 

 tall Ornith. Club, 1881, p. 152 (habits) ; Birds Haiti and San Domingo, March, 

 1884, pp. 51-52, col. pi. (Samana, Petionville, specimens) ; Cat. West Indian 

 Birds, 1892, p. 115 (Dominican Republic, Haiti). — Tippenhauer, Die Insel 

 Haiti, 1892, pp. 320, 321 (listed).— Cherrie, Field Col. Mus., Ornith. ser., vol. 

 1, 1896, p. 13 (habits).— Christy, Ibis, 1897, p. 322 (habits).— Richmond, 

 Smithsonian Misc. Colls., vol. 66, no. 17, 1917, p. 39 (habits). — Busck, Proc. 

 Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 7, 1907, pp. 2-3 (parasitized by anthomyiid fly). — 

 Verrill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1909, p. 364 (habits). — Peters, 

 Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 1917, pp. 417— £18 (color, measurements, habits). — 

 Kaempfer, Journ. fur Ornith., 1924, pp. 179-180 (habits). — Ciferri, Segund. 

 Inf. An. Est. Nac. Agr. Moca, 1927, p. 6 (listed).— Beebe, Zool. Soc. Bull., vol. 

 30, 1927, p. 141; Beneath Tropic Seas, 1928, p. 223 (habits).— Bond, Proc. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 80, 1928, pp. 509-510 (habits).— Danforth, Auk, 

 1929, p. 372 (recorded).— Lonnberg, Fauna och Flora, 1929, p. 106 (Haiti).— 

 Moltoni, Att. Soc. Ital. Scienz. Nat., vol. 68, 1929, p. 321 (Moca, specimens). 



Dulus nuchalis Swainson, Anim. in Menag., 1838, p. 345 ("Brazil.") — 

 Bond, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 80, 1928, p. 510 (= dominions). 



Resident throughout the island, except in the highest altitudes. 



The palm-chat, restricted in range to Hispaniola, is one of the 

 most peculiar as well as one of the most prominent of the smaller 

 birds of the island. Distributed universally throughout the low- 

 lands, the huge stick nests of this species, usually in the top of a 

 palm, are a regular feature of the landscape, and attract certain at- 

 tention to a bird that otherwise might not attain notice except by 

 ornithologists on account of^its plain coloration. (PI. 23.) The 

 palm-chat is common in both republics throughout the range of 

 the royal palm, and extends into the mountains to altitudes of 1500 

 meters or more. It is absent therefore only on the highest peaks and 



