THE BIRDS OF HAITI AND THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 377 

 DENDROICA CORONATA CORONATA (Linnaeus) 

 MYRTLE WARBLER, PETIT CHIT 



Motacilla coronata Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, vol. 1, 1766, p. 333 (Near 

 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). 



Sylvia coronata, Ritter, Naturh. Reis. Westind. Insel Hayti, 1836, p. 156 

 (specimen). 



Sylvicola coronata, Salle, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1857, p. 231 (listed). — 

 Bryant, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 11, May, 1867, p. 91 (Dominican 

 Republic). 



Dendroeca coronata, Cory, Bull. Nuttall Ornith. Club, 1881, p. 151 (Haiti) ; 

 Birds Haiti and San Domingo, March, 1S84, p. 30 (Petionville). — Tippenhauer, 

 Die Insel Haiti, 1892, pp. 320, 321 (listed).— Christy, Ibis, 1897, p. 320 (Rio 

 Yuna, Sanchez). 



Dendroica coronata, Cory, Cat. West Indian Birds, 1892, p. 118 (Haiti, Do- 

 minican Republic). — Chekeie, Field Col. Mus., Ornith. ser., vol. 1, 1896, p. 11 

 (Dominican Republic). — Verriix, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 61, 

 1909, p. 365 (common).— Peters, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 61, 1917, pp. 

 420-421 (Monte Cristi, Sosua).— Beebe, Zool. Soc. Bull., vol. 30, 1927, p. 141; 

 Beneath Tropic Seas, 1928, p. 223 (Haiti). 



Dendroica coronata coronata, Bond, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sei. Philadelphia, vol. 

 80, 1928, p. 512 (migrant).— Moltoni, Att. Soc. Ital. Scienz. Nat., vol. 69, 1929, 

 p. 322 (San Juan, specimens). 



Migrant from North America, common. 



The myrtle warbler apparently is more common in the eastern 

 part of Hispaniola than in the west as the records of greatest abun- 

 dance come from the Dominican Republic. 



The species was first reported by Salle who listed it without com- 

 ment. W. M. Gabb received a specimen in alcohol taken by Charles 

 A. Fraser at Puerto Plata that came later to the United States Na- 

 tional Museum. (It bears no date but was entered in the catalogue 

 on January 11, 1882). Cherrie, working in 1895 in the southern part 

 of the republic, remarks of it merely " not common, and none seen 

 after March 27." Christy found it common in undergrowth along 

 the Rio Yuna and near Sanchez but says that he seldom saw it in the 

 interior. Verrill reported it as very common, a statement borne out 

 by a long series of specimens that he secured in 1907, now in the col- 

 lection of J. H. Fleming of Toronto. These include one from Cana 

 Honda January 3, four from El Valle January 17 and 18, eight from 

 Sanchez January 21, 23, 24 and 26, twenty-four from Samana Janu- 

 ary 30 and February 4 to 20, and one from La Vega January 18. Of 

 this long set it is interesting to note that eleven are males and twenty- 

 seven females. Peters secured two females at Monte Cristi, where he 

 found the species abundant both in the cactus forests and the other 

 scrub, and at Sosua. Their numbers here decreased by March 15 and 

 by April 1 practically all had gone, though a straggler was taken at 

 Sosua April 10. Beck in 1917 secured specimens on Loma Tina Janu- 



