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lighter in color, being brighter green above, with the gray of the 

 hindneck paler, and more extensively white below, with the under 

 tail-coverts paler. 



The type, a male, has the following dimensions: wing 90.0, tail 

 C7.5, culmen from base 20.7, tarsus 22.5 mm. 



Subfamily Tanagrinae 



TANAGRA MUSICA (Gmelin) » 

 HISPANIOLAN EUPHONIA, OISEATJ GRAND PERE 



Pipra musica Gmelin, Syst. Nat., vol. 1, pt. 2, 1789, p. 1004 (" S. Domi- 

 nici "=Hispaniola). 



Organiste, Montbeillard, in Buffon, Hist. Nat. Ois., vol. 4, 1778, pp. 290-291 

 (described). 



Organiste, de St. Domingue, Datjbenton, Planch. Enl., pi. 809, fig. 1 

 (figured). 



Euphonia musica, Salle, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1857, pp. 231-232 (Domi- 

 nican Republic).— Cory, Bull. Nuttall Ornith. Club, 1881, p. 152 (Petionville) ; 

 Birds Haiti and San Domingo, July, 1884, pp. 61-63, col. pi. (La Vega, Magua, 

 Petionville, specimen) ; Cat. West Indian Birds, 1S92, p. 113 (Haiti, Dominican 

 Republic) ; Auk, 1895, p. 279 (Dominican Republic, specimen). — Tristram, 

 Ibis, 1884, p. 168 (Dominican Republic, specimen) ; Cat. Coll. Birds Belonging 

 H. B. Tristram, 18S9, p. 219 (Saniana, specimen). — Tippenhatjer, Die Insel 

 Haiti, 1S92, pp. 320, 321 (listed).— Cherrie, Field Columbian Mus., Ornith. ser., 

 vol. 1, 1896, p. 13 (Honduras, San Jose de Ocoa, specimens). — Christy, Ibis, 

 1897, p. 324 (La Vega, specimen). — Verrill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 vol. 61, 1909, p. 363 (Sanchez, specimens). — Lonnberg, Fauna och Flora, 1929, 

 p. 109 (Haiti). 



Tanagra musica, Bryant, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 11, May, 1S67, 

 p. 92 (Dominican Republic, Haiti). — Bond, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 vol. 80, 1928, pp. 515-516 (Haiti, Gonave). — Moltoni, Att. Soc. Ital. Scienz. Nat., 

 vol. 68, 1929, p. 325 (San Juan, Monte Viejo, Rio Manade, specimens). 



Resident, locally fairly common; found mainly among the hills. 



The euphonia lives in forests in the upper limbs of the trees, and 

 is so small and frequents such dense cover that it is found regularly 

 only by those who have become familiar with its notes. Both 

 male and female utter a plaintive whistle followed by a rapidly 

 repeated double note that forms a rapid, chattering twitter, given 

 sometimes on the wing but more usually as the birds rest in trees. 

 When this is heard careful scrutiny of the trees ordinarily reveals 

 clumps of mistletoe, and on watching these attentively the euphonias 

 may be detected hopping about among them to feed on the mistletoe 



bo The following may refer to the euphonia : 



Dame Anglaise, Saint-M6ry, Descrip. Part. Frang. lie Saint-Domingue, vol. 2, 1798. 

 p. 506. According to this statement, on the slopes of La Selle ahove Cayes Jacmel 

 " les dames anglaises etalent leur robe dans les bois fourres." 



Evgque, Saint-Me'ry, idem, vol. 1, 1797, p. 717. Listed from near Port-de-Paix, without 

 description. 



