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Gonave Island, resident. 



The palm-chat of Gonave Island is grayer brown, less olive above, 

 has the rump and upper tail-coverts less extensively washed with 

 green, and averages somewhat larger, with heavier bill than the 

 form of the main island. The new race was described from seven 

 specimens taken at Picmy, a little village on the southeastern shores 

 of La Gonave on July 5, 1920, bj^ TV. L. Abbott. The series is quite 

 uniform in the characters noted and is approached in color and size 

 by only a few of the many specimens examined from Hispaniola 

 proper. 



Following are measurements (in millimeters) of the Gonave series : 



Males, five specimens, wing 90.1-92.2 (91.2) ; tail 72.3-80.7 (75.0) ; 

 culmen from base 15.6-16.8 (16.2) ; tarsus 21.0-23.1 (22.3). 



Females, three specimens, wing 88.3-94.1 (90.9) ; tail 72.0-74.8 

 (73.0); culmen from base 16.2-17.3 (16.9); tarsus 22.1-24.1 (22.9). 



This race is named in honor of Capt. Gonzalo Fernandez de 

 Oviedo y Valdes, first among the early historians of the New World, 

 who in his Historia General y Natural de las Indias, begun in 1526, 

 gave to the world many observations on natural history particularly 

 from Hispaniola where he resided for years. His account of the 

 panearo comunero, as he termed the palm-chat is highly entertaining. 



Abbott writes that the palm-chat is local on Gonave as on his first 

 visit he did not find it. On a later trip inland from Picmy along 

 a small stream where he found royal palms he located quite a large 

 colony of the birds and there collected his specimens. Bond says 

 that it is local in occurrence due probably to the few available palms 

 and other nesting trees. Poole and Perrygo collected it at Massacrin 

 on March 9, 1929. 



Family VIREONIDAE 



Subfamily Vireoninae 



VIREO CRASSIROSTRIS TORTUGAE Richmond 



TORTUE VIREO, OISEAU CANNE 



Vireo crassirostris tortugae Richmond, Smithsonian Misc. Colls., vol. 68, 

 no. 7, July 12, 1917, p. 2 (Tortue Island, Haiti).— Bond, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Philadelphia, vol. 80, 1928, p. 510 (Tortue; habits). — Lonnberg, Fauna och 

 Flora, 1929, p. 106 (Haiti). 



Resident on Tortue Island, Haiti ; common. 



Abbott writes that he found these birds in pairs in dense bush, 

 but makes no further comment on their habits. 



James Bond writes that this vireo " occurs abundantly throughout 

 the island. In habits, song and nesting it resembles the northern 

 white-eyed vireo (V. grlseus). March appeared to be the height of 



