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that the "five eggs were spotted with red, especially at the larger 

 end." Another nest on Gonave Island July 17 contained four eggs. 



A male shot by Wetmore at Fonds-des-Negres April 1, 1927, had 

 the maxilla blackish ; mandible dusky neutral gray ; iris bone brown ; 

 tarsus and toes grayish brown. 



This grassquit is only 110 to 115 mm. long, and is rather stocky in 

 form with a thick, heavy bill. The male is dull grayish green above, 

 with an orange yellow line extending from the base of the bill above 

 the eye and a patch of the same color on the throat. The breast and 

 foreneck are extensively black and there is a line of the same color 

 about the gape and on the forehead. The rest of the underparts are 

 dull white becoming dull gray on the sides. Females are dull grayish 

 green, lighter below, becoming whitish on the abdomen, and have a 

 dull j'ellowish line over the eye and a hint of yellow on the throat. 



TIARIS BICOLOR MARCHII (Baird) 

 MARCH'S GRASSQUIT, PETIT Z'HERBES 



Phonipara Marchii, Baied, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1863, p. 297 

 (Jamaica). 



Phonipara zena, Cory, Birds Haiti and Sau Domingo, July, 18S4, pp. 63-64, 

 col. pi. (Samana, specimens). — Tippenhauer, Die Insel Haiti, 1892, p. 321 

 (listed). — Christy, Ibis, 1897, p. 324 (nest and eggs). 



Fringilla zena (var. Marchii), Bryant, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 11, 

 May, 1867, p. 93 (Port-au-Prince, specimens). 



Carduelis bicolor, Hartlaub, Isis, 1847, p. 609 (listed). 



Phonipara bicolor, Cory, Bull. Nuttall Ornith. Club, 1881, p. 152 (Haiti).— 

 Tristram, Ibis, 1SS4, p. 168 (Dominican Republic, specimen). 



Euelhia bicolor, Cory, Cat. West Indian Birds, 1S92, p. 113 (Haiti, Dominican 

 Republic). — Cherrie, Field Col. Mus., Ornith. ser., vol. 1, 1S98, p. 16 (Dominican 

 Republic, specimens). 



Tiaris bicolor, Verrtll, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 61, 1909, p. 

 362 (Dominican Republic). 



Euethia bicolor marchii, Ridgway, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 50, pt. 1, 1901, pp. 

 541-542 (Haiti).— Beebe, Zool. Soc. Bull., vol. 30, 1927, p. 141; Beneath Tropic 

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



Tiaris bicolor marchi, Bond, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 80, 1928, 

 p. 518 (Gonave, Tortue).— Moltoni, Att. Soc. Ital. Scienz. Nat., vol. 68, 1929, 

 p. 326 (San Juan, specimen). 



Tiaris bicolor marchii, Danforth, Auk, 1929, p. 374 (recorded). — Lonnberg, 

 Fauna och Flora, 1929, p. 110 (Haiti). 



Resident; common. 



The present form of grassquit frequents similar localities to the 

 yellow-throated species, but in Hispaniola is much less abundant. 

 It is widely distributed through semi-arid and humid sections and 

 like its relative thrives in canefields and pastures where there is the 

 slightest cover to give it shelter. The heat of the coastal plain and 

 the cold, bracing air of the high mountain slopes are equally agree- 



