THE BIRDS OF HAITI AND THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 373 



Perissoglossa tigrina, Tristram, Cat. Coll. Birds belong. H. B. Tristram, 1889, 

 p. 174 (Dominican Republic). 



Dendroeca tigrina, Cory, Bull. Nuttall Ornith. Club, 18S1, p. 151 (Haiti) ; 

 Birds Haiti and San Domingo, March, 1884, pp. 25-26 (winter). — Tlppenhatter, 

 Die Iiisel Haiti, 1892, pp. 320, 321 (listed). 



Dendroioa tigrina, Cory, Cat. West Indian Birds, 1892, p. 117 (Haiti, 

 Dominican Republic). — Cherrie, Field Columbian Mus., Ornith. ser., vol. 1, 

 1896, p. 11 (specimens). — Verrtll, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 61, 

 1909, p. 365 (believed to breed).— Peters, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 61, 1917, 

 p. 421 (Monte Cristi, Jaibon, Sosua, Arroyo Savana ) .— Beebe, Zool. Soc. Bull., 

 vol. 30, 1927, p. 141; Beneath Tropic Seas, 1928, p. 223 (specimen).— Bond, 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 80, 1928, p. 512 (migrant). — Moltoni, 

 Att. Soc. Ital. Scienz. Nat., vol. 68, 1929, p. 322 (San Juan, specimens). 



Migrant from North America, very common. 



Though the Cape May warbler is found through the Greater An- 

 tilles Hispaniola appears to be the winter metropolis of the species 

 as the birds are found throughout the island often in considerable 

 numbers. In fact their abundance in some localities is almost be- 

 wildering to one accustomed to their rarity as migrants in the eastern 

 United States. 



The species was known to the earliest collectors, as Brisson in 1760 

 and Buffon in 1778 both describe what appears to be this bird, though 

 the species concerned in their notes is somewhat open to question. 

 Vieillot recorded it certainly in 1807, and Ritter in 1836 reported a 

 specimen shot in Haiti. 



From the Dominican Republic Tristram received one from A. S. 

 Toogood in 1887, while Cherrie found it in the southern part of that 

 republic until April 6, 1895, taking 21 specimens. Verrill who col- 

 lected a considerable series (now in the collection of J. H. Fleming) 

 from December 27, 1906, to March 18, 1907, writes 39 that " there ap- 

 pear to be two forms; one, the common North American bird, the 

 other, more richly colored, with distinctly chestnut breast, deep- 

 yellow wing-bars, and rich — almost orange — yellow breast and belly. 

 As young birds in nestling plumage, as well as females containing 

 eggs ready for the nest, were obtained, I consider it possible to sep- 

 arate the resident bird from the northern form as a local variety 

 or subspecies." We believe his observation as to breeding in His- 

 paniola certainly erroneous since the species nests only in the far 

 north, reports of a breeding colony in the mountains of Jamaica 

 being also due to a mistake on the part of the observer. Peters found 

 the Cape May warbler common on the north coast and collected 

 five specimens at Monte Cristi, Jaibon, Sosua, and Arroyo Savana. 

 Abbott secured one at Sanchez October 23, 1916, and one at Polo in 

 the Bahoruco Mountains, March 4, 1922. R. H. Beck collected a fe- 



30 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 61, 1909, p. 365. 



