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Hartert for these records and for the privilege of including them in 

 this account. Ciferri collected six at Sabana San Thome near San 

 Juan September 27 and October 9, 19, and 23, 1928. James Bond 

 records a small band of blackpolls on Gonave Island May 15, 1928, 

 and states that he heard one utter its song. 



The species is rare in migration elsewhere in the Greater Antilles. 



The black-poll warbler is about the size of the myrtle warbler. 

 The male has the crown black, ear-coverts white, nape streaked with 

 black and white, the back and rump ashy gray streaked with black, 

 and two white wing bars. Below it is white streaked on the sides 

 with black. The female and immature birds are olive-green above, 

 streaked with black, and white tinged with yellow below, with more 

 or less distinct blackish streaks on the sides. The wing is marked 

 as in the male. 



SEIURUS AUROCAPILLUS AUROCAPILLUS (Linnaen*) 

 OVENBIRD, PETIT CHIT 



Motacilla aurocapillus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, vol. 1, 1766, p. 334 (at 

 sea about thirty miles from Hispaniola). 



Grivelette de Saint-Domingue, Montbeileard, in Buffon, Hist. Nat. Ois., vol. 

 3, 1775, pp. 317-318 (migrant).— Descourtilz, Voy. Nat., vol. 2, 1809, p. 204 

 (part). 



Petite grive de St. Domingue, Daubenton, Planch. Enl., pi. 398, fig. 2 

 (figured). 



Golden-crowned Thrush, Edwards, Glean. Nat. Hist., vol. 5, 1758, pp. 91-92, 

 pi. 252 (Hispaniola). 



Passer maculosus (part), Feuielee, Journ. Observ. Phys. Math. Bot, vol. 3, 

 1725, p. 387 (specimen, Les Cayes). 



Turdus coronatus, Vieiixot, Hist. Nat. Ois. Amer. Sept., vol. 2, 1807, p. 8 

 (winter). 



Slums aurocapillus, Cory, Bull. Nuttall Ornith. Club, 1881, p. 151 (winter). 



Seiurus aiirocapillus, Salle, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1857, p. 231 (Dominican 

 Republic).— Bryant, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 11, May, 1867, p. 91 

 (Dominican Republic, Haiti).— Cory, Birds Haiti and San Domingo, March, 

 1884, p. 34 (Gomuves, Jacmel).— Cat. West Indian Birds, 1892, p. 119 (Haiti, 

 Dominican Republic).— Tippenhauer, Die Insel Haiti, 1S92, p. 321 (listed).— 

 Cherrie, Field Col. Mus., Ornith. ser., vol. 1, 1896, p. 11 (recorded).— Christy, 

 Ibis, 1897, p. 321 (La Vega, specimen). — Verrile, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila- 

 delphia, vol. 61, 1909, p. 365 (migrant, abundant).— Peters, Bull. Mus. Comp. 

 Zool., vol. 61, 1917, p. 420 (Sosua, Arroyo Salado, specimens). — Penard, Auk, 

 1926, p. 377 (at sea, near Haiti).— Ekman, Ark. for Bot., vol. 22A, No. 16, 1929, 

 p. 7 (Navassa). 



Seiurus aurocapillus aurocapillus, Bond, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 vol. 80, 1928, p. 513 (Haiti, Gonave).— Moltoni, Att. Soc. Ital. Scienz. Nat., 

 vol. 68, 1929, p. 323 (Haina, San Juan, Moca, specimens). 



Winter visitant from North America; common and widely dis- 

 tributed. 



