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ized since it is usual to find males throughout the breeding range of 

 caerulescens with much mixture of black on the dorsum, and may 

 after all represent merely an individual color phase rather than a 

 race with distinct geographic range. Its status should be carefully 

 investigated with proper series of breeding birds as it may finally be 

 found not recognizable. 



DENDROICA DOMINICA DOMINICA (Linnaeus) 

 YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER, CHARDONNERET, PETIT CHIT 



Motacilla dominica Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, vol. 1, 1766, p. 334 (His- 

 paniola). 



Ficedula Dominicensis cinerea Bkisson, Ornith., vol. 3, 1760, pp. 520-522 

 pi. 27, fig. 3 ("S. Domingue"). 



Cou-Jaune, Buffon, Hist. Nat. Ois., vol. 5, 1778, pp. 165-169 (description, 

 habits; said to breed). 



Figuier cendre a gorge jaune, Buffon, Hist. Nat. Ois., vol. 5, 1778, pp. 300-301 

 ("St. Domingue"). 



Gorge-jaune de St. Domingue, Daubenton, Planch. Enl., pi. 686, fig. 1 

 (figured). 



Sylvia pensilis, Vieillot, Hist. Nat. Ois. Amer. Sept., vol. 2, 1807, pp. 20-21, 

 pi. 72 (description). 



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

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

 Republic). 



Dendrocca dominica, Coey. Birds Haiti and San Domingo, March, 1884, pp. 

 27-28 (common, winter). — Teisteam, Cat. Coll. Birds belong. H. B. Tristram, 

 1889, p. 177 (Rivas, specimen). — Tippenhauee, Die Insel Haiti, 1S92, p. 32 

 (listed). 



Dendroica dominica, Coey, Cat. West Indian Birds, 1892, p. 118 (Haiti, 

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

 1909, p. 365 (Dominican Republic, common). 



Dendroica dominica dominica, Peters, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 61, 1917, 

 p. 420 (Bulla, specimens). — Bond, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 80, 

 1928, p. 512 (Port-au-Prince, Gonai'ves, Kenskoff). — Moltoni, Att. Soc. Ital. 

 Scienz. Nat., vol. 68, 1929, p. 323 (San Juan, Monte Viejo, specimens). 



Winter visitant from North America; locally fairly common. 



The yellow-throated warbler is another North American species 

 with the type locality in Hispaniola as the Latin name is based 

 largely on the account of Brisson, who described a specimen sent by 

 Chervain to de Eeaumur. According to Buffon and Vieillot this 

 species was believed to be resident on the island and to nest there 

 but this seems to be in error as there is no record of it during the 

 period of northern summer. 



In the Dominican Republic the yellow-throated warbler is first 



recorded by Salle who lists it without statement as to its abundance. 



Tristram received one from Rivas (formerly Almercen) taken in 



1887 by A. S. Toogood. Verrill in 1907 found it common and se- 



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