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though they were not especially shy. Their song was a rather buzzy, 

 whistled wee-chee-chee-chee-chee. I collected two males. Parasitic 

 nematodes were found under the skin of the breast and belly of one 

 of them. Their stomachs contained 10 per cent vegetable matter 

 (two seeds in one stomach), and 90 per cent animal matter (a 

 moth; an ant Pheidole megacephala) two hairy spiders, a thrips 

 and the ootheca of a cockroach)." James Bond writes that he found 

 the Gonave chat-tanager common in arid scrubs, and that it was not 

 so shy as the form of Hispaniola proper. The song was weaker than 

 that of the Haitian bird. He writes that he collected two specimens. 



The Gonave chat-tanager is decidedly paler in color than that of 

 the main island, being grayer and less brown above, with the sides 

 and flanks more extensively white, and the under tail-coverts lighter. 

 The yellow of the under wing coverts and axillars is distinctly 

 lighter. In addition the bird is slightly smaller, the bill in par- 

 ticular being shorter and slighter. In fact it appears so different 

 that did not an occasional specimen from Hispaniola proper ap- 

 proach it in size of bill it might well be considered a distinct species 

 rather than a subspecies. Certainly the two forms concerned have 

 progressed far in differentiation from one another. 



Following are measurements of the four specimens seen: 



Males, three specimens, wing 80.5-92.1 (87.1), tail 78.0-95.2 (87.9), 

 culmen from base 20.1-21.3 (20.6), tarsus 24.9-28.4 (26.6) mm. 



Female, one specimen, wing 76.9, tail 76.7, culmen from base 18.4, 

 tarsus 25.0 mm. 



Type, male, wing 80.5, tail 78.0, culmen from base 20.3, tarsus 

 28.4 mm. 



CALYPTOPHILUS TERTIUS TERTIUS Wetmore 



LA HOTTE CHAT-TANAGER, CORNICHON 5 ? 



Calyptophilus terthis Wetmore, Smithsonian Misc. Colls., vol. 81, No. 13, 

 May 15, 1929, p. 2. (Higher slopes of Morne La Hotte, Haiti.) 



Resident ; known only from the higher slopes of Morne La Hotte, 

 southwestern Haiti. 



The present species is another of the high mountain forms of Haiti 

 whose presence has been wholly unexpected. It is at present known 

 only from seven skins collected by R. H. Beck from June 20 to July 

 4, 1917, during the Brewster-Sanford expedition for the American 

 Museum of Natural History. All of the birds were secured on the 

 higher slopes of Morne La Hotte in the region back of Les Anglais. 

 From the collector's journal, which Wetmore has examined through 

 the courtesy of Doctors Chapman and Murphy, it appears that these 

 specimens were taken in dense, trackless jungle on the high ridges 



67 A name applied in tue region of La Hotte according to Dr. E. L. Ekman. 



