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molt, taken at Almercen (now known as Villa Rivas), D. R., August 

 26, 1883. This bird measures as follows : Wing 68.5, tail 61.2, culmen 

 from base 15.0, tarsus 22.8 mm. There is a second skin, a female 

 (Cat. no. 26347) in the same collection, taken at the same locality 

 August 24, 1883, that is marked " Type of female," that under mod- 

 ern usage is of course to be disregarded in considering the type 

 specimen. Seven other skins from Villa Rivas taken in the same 

 year were collected August 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 29. Cherrie reports 

 that in 1895 he secured eight skins ; of these six are at present in the 

 Field Museum, four from Santo Domingo City, February 12 and 

 April 30, and two from Honduras March 30 and 31. Cherrie says 

 that the female taken April 30 was breeding. Verrill collected one, 

 at El Valle, but did not find it elsewhere. There is a considerable 

 series in the American Museum of Natural History shot by R. H. 

 Beck at Santo Domingo City September 28 and October 5, 6, 16, and 

 17, 1916, on Loma Tina, a number from January 5 to 24, on Loma 

 Ultimate Civil February 1, and on Loma Rucilla February 28 and 

 March 5, 1917. Abbott forwarded skins from near Constanza Sep- 

 tember 27, 1916, and April 16, 18, and 19, 1919, and one from Trujin 

 February 11, 1922. Wetmore in 1927 found this species fairly com- 

 mon near Constanza May 18 to 27. E. L. Ekman has forwarded to 

 the United States National Museum skins taken in the Valle del 

 Yaque at 1,500 meters elevation and in the Valle del Nuevo at 2,400 

 meters and says that he has found the species to 2,925 meters. He 

 obtained a bird in immature dress near Constanza October 21, 1929, 

 and presented one to Ciferri taken at Sitio la Maguana September 

 15, 1929. The species does not seem to be reported as yet from the 

 Samana Peninsula. 



In Haiti this ground warbler is less widely distributed being 

 known at present only from the line of mountains that traverse the 

 southwestern peninsula to the break of the Cul-de-Sac plain. Abbott 

 collected one above Fonds Verettes May 1, and another at Furcy 

 May 31, 1920. Wetmore found them common in 1927 on the high 

 ridge of La Selle on Morne La Visite and Morne Cabaio, in the 

 ravine below the head of the Riviere Chotard, and about the clear- 

 ings of the Jardins Bois Pin from April 11 to 15, collecting three 

 specimens at the place last mentioned. He found them at times in 

 growths of weeds bordering fields where they ranged with yellow- 

 throats in the dense, wet cover. More were found, however, in the 

 dense thickets bound together with long strands of climbing bamboo. 

 In habits and appearance they frequently offer a curious suggestion 

 of resemblance to the wren-tit {Chamaea). They are rather solitary 

 in habit and though two or three may associate they do not roam 

 about with flocks of migrant warblers. James Bond in 1928 found 



