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Moltoni received skins from Sabana San Thome, near San Juan, 

 taken March 5, October 9, 21, 23 and 25, 1928. 



From Haiti A. E. Younglove forwarded three males taken at 

 Port-au-Prince to the Smithsonian, two secured on March 3, and 

 one on April 13, 1866. Cory in 1881 reported them as abundant 

 in February and March. Bartsch collected one at Petionville April 

 1, 1917, and Abbott secured two near Jeremie, a female November 

 22, and a male November 29, 1917. He reported that he saw this 

 species on Tortue Island until the middle of May, 1917. At sea 

 on the morning of October 27, 1921 T. E. Penard found a male black- 

 throated blue warbler on board his ship which had left Port-au- 

 Prince the evening before, indicating a late date of arrival in fall 

 migration. In' 1927 Wetmore collected a male near Fonds-des- 

 Negres April 5, the only one seen at this point. From April 10 to 

 15 the species was common on the summit of La Selle being found 

 in thickets and also in the low bracken that carpeted the ground in 

 the pine-lands. The majority seen were females. He observed one 

 male at the summit of Morne a Cabrits on the road to Mirebalais. 

 Poole and Perrygo in 1929 collected specimens at St. Raphael Janu- 

 ary 11, Dondon January 19, and Cerca-la-Source March 24 and 26. 

 On Gonave Island they secured skins at En Cafe March 4 and 5 and 

 Massacrin March 9. 



The black-throated blue warbler is the same in size as the myrtle 

 warbler. The male is grajdsh blue above, black on the sides of the 

 head, throat, foreneck, and sides of the body, and white elsewhere 

 below. The female is quite different, being greenish above and 

 yellowish buff below. Both sexes are easily told by the prominent 

 white spot near the center of the wing. 



DENDROICA CAERULESCENS CAIRNSI Coues 



CAIRNS' WARBLER 



Dendroica caerulescens cairnsi Coues, Auk, 1897, p. 96 (Craggy Mountain, 

 Buncombe Co., N. C). 



Migrant from North America ; apparently very rare. 



The only record for Hispaniola at present is that of a male col- 

 lected at El Rio, Dominican Republic, October 5, 1916 by W. L. 

 Abbott. This form of the black-throated blue warbler is recognized 

 as the bird that breeds in the mountains from Pennsylvania south to 

 western North Carolina. The winter home is not definitely known 

 except that one specimen has been taken at Matanzas, Cuba (Febru- 

 ary 14, 1900). 



This race in the male is distinguished from D. c. cacrulcscenx by 

 darker coloration above, with extensive mixture of black in the 

 back. The female is slightly darker. The race is poorly character- 



