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A. S. Toogood. Christy shot a male in thick underbrush in forest 

 near La Vega April 19, 1895, and Cherrie collected three at Aguacate. 

 Dominican Republic, February 26, 1895. He reports that at daybreak 

 near his camp he noted daily a pleasant song, the first of the bird 

 notes to be heard with the coining of dawn, that he attributed to 

 the common palm tanager (Phaenicophilus pahnarvmi) but that he 

 learned finally was the present species. When the sun came up the 

 birds were quiet. Verrill observed the species at Miranda and La 

 Vega only. Abbott saw one at El Rio in 1919, and in 1921 searched 

 for the species carefully near Villa Rivas where the original series 

 had been collected but failed to find any, though he did observe one 

 in low ground near Cotui, which he did not collect. Kaempf er 56 

 writes that he took a few near Cotui but in this seems to have 

 written in error since Hartert writes that the five secured by Kaemp- 

 fer, including four males and a female, were shot at Villa Rivas 

 from January 1 to 3, 1924. Ekman writes that the chat-tanager is 

 rare in the mountains north of San Juan but that he found it in 

 abundance on the Sierra de Ocoa ranging to an elevation of 2,000 

 meters. 



There are as yet no records for the typical race in Haiti. 



The chat-tanager, a trifle larger than the palm tanager, has 

 rounded wings and tail and a fairly straight, compressed bill. Above 

 it is olive brown, darker on the head, with a spot of yellow in front 

 of the eye, and a yellow margin on the bend of the wing. The 

 throat, breast, and abdomen are white, and the flanks and under 

 tail coverts dull brown. 



CALYPTOPHILUS FRUGIVORUS ABBOTTI Richmond and Swales 



GONAVE CHAT-TANAGER 



Calyptophilus frugivorus abbotti Richmond and Swales, Proc. Biol. Soc. 

 Washington, vol. 37, March 17, 1924, p. 107 (La Mahotiere, Gonave Island. 

 Haiti).— Bond, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 80, 1928, p. 516 

 (habits). — Danforth, Auk, 1929, p. 374 (Gonave Island). — Lonnberg, Fauna 

 och Flora, 1929, p. 106 (Haiti). 



Gonave Island; resident, fairly common. 



W. L. Abbott, the first to find this bird on Gonave Island, writes 

 that near La Mahotiere he saw several keeping near the ground in 

 dense jungle where they were so shy that they were difficult to see, 

 and so were probably more common than his notes indicate. He 

 secured a male, the type of this race, on February 18, and a female 

 on February 26, 1918. Danforth reports that in July, 1927, these 

 birds were " probably not uncommon on Gonave, but rather difficult 

 to observe on account of the dense undergrowth in which they live, 



M Journ. fur Ornith., 1924, p. 184. 



