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on the slopes of La Hotte, La Selle, Montaignes Noir (Morne 

 Basile), and the Massif du Nord (Haut Piton, Morne Salnave). 

 He found them also near sea level in the arid scrubs of Gonave 

 Island, collecting specimens there on February 14 and 16, 1928. 



A female collected by Wetmore May 27, 1927, at Constanza had 

 the maxilla and tip of the mandible black ; base of mandible neutral 

 gray; iris Rood's brown; tarsus and toes neutral gray; claws black- 

 ish. In an adult male taken by Abbott October 8, 1916, at El Rio 

 it was noted that the bill was black above, and leaden color beneath, 

 while the iris was dark brown. 



The spindalis is from 162 to 186 millimeters in length, being a 

 little larger than an ordinary sparrow. The male is one of the 

 brilliantly colored birds of the island as it has the head black with 

 a white streak above the eye, hind-neck bright yellow, back olive 

 yellow, rump orange brown, wings and tail black — the former with 

 two white wing bars, and latter with spots of white — chin white, 

 this color extending back on either side as a malar stripe, center of 

 throat bright yellow, sides of throat black, upper breast chestnut, 

 lower breast yellow, and abdomen white. The female is grayish 

 green above, dull whitish below with indistinct streaks of dusky, an 

 indistinct white wing bar with a second spot of white, and wing 

 edgings of greenish. 



PHAENICOPHILUS POLIOCEPHALUS POLIOCEPHALUS (Bonaparte) 

 GRAY- CROWNED PALM TANAGER, QTTATRE YETJX, OISEAU O.TJATRE YEUX 



Dulus poliocepJialus Bonapakte, Rev. Mag. Zool., 1851, p. 178 ("His- 

 paniola "=Haiti). 



Merula Palmarum Beisson, Ornith., vol. 2, 1760, pp. 301-303, pi. 29, fig. 1 

 (" Cayenne "). 



PJioenicophilus dominicensis Cory, Bull. Nuttall Ornith. Club, 18S1, p. 129 

 (" Haiti "=Jacmel) ; p. 152 (Jacmel, specimens); Birds Haiti and San 

 Domingo, July, 1884, p. 58, col. pi. (Jacmel, specimens). — Tippenhauee, Die 

 Insel Haiti, 1892, p. 321 (listed). 



PhoenicopJiilus dominicanus, Vebbill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 

 61, 1909, p. 363 ("Miranda"). 



PhoenicopJiilus palmarum, Sclateb, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1S56, p. 84 

 (part; supposed female) ; Syn. Av. Tanagr., 1856, p. 22 (part). 



PJioenicophilus poliocepJialus, Cory, Cat. West Indian Birds, 1892, p. 114 

 (Haiti, Dominican Republic). — Lonnberg, Fauna och Flora, 1929, p. 109 

 (Haiti). 



Phaenicophilus poliocephalus poliocephalus, Richmond and Swales, Proc. 

 Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 37, March 17, 1924, p. 107 (mentioned). 



Phoenicophilus poliocephalus poliocepJialus, Bond, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila- 

 delphia, vol. 80, 1928, pp. 516-517 (Morne la CasiSre). 



Southwestern Haiti, resident; ranging from Jacmel west to the 

 end of the southern peninsula. 



