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ary 20 and 24, on Loma Rucilla February 27, and at Tiibano March 

 6. Ciferri collected three near San Juan at Sabana San Thome 

 October 1, 1929. 



Records of the myrtle warbler for Haiti at present are compara- 

 tively few. Hitter lists a specimen in his work published in 1836. 

 Cory in 1881 reported the bird as very common in the " neighbor- 

 hood of Le Coup" (Petionville). Bartsch in 1917 collected one 

 "between St. Marc and Port-au-Prince" April 21, and saw others 

 near Port-au-Prince April 25 and 27. Abbott secured one on Tortue 

 Island February 4, 1917, and one on Grande Cayemite January 14, 

 1918. In 1927 Beebe reported two; and Wetmore recorded one on 

 April 6 at the home of Dr. Geo. F. Freeman in Port-au-Prince. 

 Bond found them common. Poole and Perrygo took two of four 

 seen on January 31, 1929, on Tercero Island in the Seven Brothers 

 group. Others were secured at Fort Liberte February 13 and 16, 

 Pont Sonde February 27, and Cerca-la-Source March 26. Of ten 

 specimens that they collected eight are females. 



The adult male myrtle warbler is bluish gray above, streaked with 

 black, and white below, with breast and sides heavily marked with 

 black. The female and immature are similar but are browner with 

 the streaks more obscure. In any plumage there are two white wing 

 bars, and the birds are marked from all other warblers by the pres- 

 ence of four more or less distinct spots of yellow, one on either side 

 of the breast, one on the rump, and one (usually partly concealed) 

 on the crown. The bird is from 130 to 140 mm. long. 



DENDROICA CAERULESCENS CAERULESCENS (Gmelin) 

 BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER, PETIT CHIT 



Motacilla caerulescens Gmelin, Syst. Nat., vol. 1, pt. 2, 1789, p. 960 ("S. 

 Dominici "=Hispaniola). 



Blue Flycatcher, Edwards, Glean. Nat. Hist., vol. 5, 1758, p. 91, pi. 252 (taken 

 at sea near Hispaniola). 



Fauvette bleuatre de Saint-Domingue, Buffon, Hist. Nat. Ois., vol. 5, 1778, 

 p. 164 (brief description of male). 



Figuier Bleu, Buffon, Hist. Nat. Ois., vol. 5, 1778, pp. 304-305 (based on 

 Edwards' blue flycatcher). 



fParus coeruleus, Bitter, Naturh. Beis. Westind. Insel Hayti, 1836, p. 156 

 (listed). , 



Sylvia caerulescens, Vieillot, Hist. Nat. Ois. Amer. Sept., vol. 2, 1807, p. 26 

 (winter). 



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

 Bryant, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist, vol. 11, May, 1S67, p. 91 (Dominican 

 Bepublic, Haiti). 



Dendrocca coerulescens, Cory, Birds Haiti and San Domingo, March, 1884, 

 pp. 26-27 (winter).— Tippenhauer, Die Insel Haiti, 1892, p. 321 (listed). 



Dendroeca caerulescens, Cory, Bull. Nuttall Ornith. Club, 1881, p. 151 

 (Haiti). — Tristram, Ibis, 1884, p. 168 (Dominican Bepublic, specimen). 



