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wings, tail and back black, the upper breast and under wing coverts 

 bright rose-red, the rest of the underparts white, and the wings 

 spotted with white. The female is grayish brown above with the 

 feathers margined with buff, a whitish line over the eye, and a dis- 

 tinct buff line down the center of the crown, the under wing coverts 

 orange, and the under parts buffy streaked with dark brown. Adult 

 males in winter dress are brown instead of black. 



TIARIS OLIVACEA OLIVACEA (Linnaeus) 

 YELLOW-FACED GRASSQTJIT, SIGUITA, PETIT Z'HERBES 



Emberiza olwacea Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, vol. 1, 1766 ,p. 309 ("Domin- 

 ica "=Hispaniola) . 



Olive, Montbeiixard, in Buffon, Hist. Nat. Ois., vol. 4, 1778, pp. 363-364 

 (" Saint-Domingue "). 



Emberiza Dominicensis Beisson, Ornith., vol. 3, 1760, pp. 300-302, pi. 13, 

 fig. 5 ( " S. Domingue " ) . 



Passerina olwacea, Habtlaub, Naumannia, 1852, p. 53 (Haiti). 



Fringilla olivacea, Bbyant, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 11, May, 1867, 

 p. 93 (Dominican Republic, Haiti). 



Phonipara olivacea, Salle, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1857, p. 232 (Dominican 

 Republic).— Coey, Bull. Nuttall Ornith. Club, 1881, p. 152 (Haiti) ; Birds Haiti 

 and San Domingo, July, 1884, pp. 65-66, col. pi. (La Vega, specimen). — Tip- 

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



Phonipara lepida, Tbisteam, Cat. Coll. Birds Belonging H. B. Tristram, 1889, 

 p. 232 (Rivas, specimen). 



Euethia lepida, Cory, Cat. West Indian Birds, 1892, p. 113 (Haiti, Domini- 

 can Republic). — Chebrie, Field Col. Mus., Ornith. ser., vol. 1, 1896, p. 16 

 (Dominican Republic). 



Euethia o. olwacea, Beebe, Zool. Soc. Bull., vol. 30, 1927, p. 141; Beneath 

 Tropic Seas, 1928, p. 222 (Haiti). 



Tiaris lepida, Veebill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 61, 1909, p. 

 362 (La Vega, El Valle). 



Tiaris olwacea, Lonnbebg, Fauna och Flora, 1929, p. 110 (Haiti). 



Tiaris olivacea olivacea, Peters, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 61, 1917, p. 425 

 (Monte Cristi, Santiago, Sostia, Choc6, specimens). — Bond, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Philadelphia, vol. SO, 1928, p. 518 (Haiti).— Danfobth, Auk, 1929, p. 374 (abun- 

 dant).— Moltoni, Att. Soc. Ital. Scienz. Nat., vol. 68, 1929, p. 326 (Haina, San 

 Juan, specimens). 



Resident; common. 



This grassquit is distributed commonly through Hispaniola, ex- 

 cept that it has not been recorded on the Samana Peninsula in spite 

 of the extensive collections that have been made during fifty years 

 past at Sanchez and Samana. Possibly it has been overlooked since 

 it is known from Pimentel and Villa Rivas immediately to the west, 

 and is recorded from the south side of Samana Bay at Sabana de 

 la Mar and El Valle. Abbott says that he did not see it on Tortue 

 Island but Bond indicates that he found it there. 



