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Following are records of occurrence for this bird : 



Dominican Republic: Santo Domingo City (Danforth, Cherrie) ; 

 Catarrey, Aguacate (Cherrie) ; Haina (Danforth) ; Rivas (Cory) ; 

 Sanchez (Christy, Verrill, Abbott, Wetmore) ; Samana (Tristram, 

 Cory) ; Laguna, Samana Peninsula, San Lorenzo (Abbott) ; Cafia 

 Honda, El Valle (Verrill) ; Monte Cristi, Sosua, Arroyo Salado 

 (Peters); Constanza (Abbott, Wetmore); El Kio (Wetmore). 



Haiti : Moline (Abbott) ; Jeremie (Bartsch) ; Port-au-Prince 

 (Younglove, Bartsch, Wetmore) ; Furcy (Abbott) ; La Tremblay, 

 Morne La Selle, Morne a Cabrits, Limonade (Wetmore) ; Mole St. 

 Nicolas (Abbott) ; Port-de-Paix (Saint-Mery) ; St. Marc, Pont 

 Sonde, St. Michel, Fort Liberte, Cerca-la- Source (Poole and 

 Perry go) ; Gonave Island (Abbott, Danforth, Bond). 



Danforth, recording observations made in 1927 says " On July 

 17 at £troites, Gonave Island, Emlen found and photographed a 

 nest. It was a domed affair, placed three feet from the ground in 

 an open bush, and contained four white eggs spotted with brown, 

 especially at the larger end." In the Spanish speaking part of the 

 island the bullfinch is known usually as gallito, though Verrill 

 heard the males called p7*ieto and the females chichigua. The breed- 

 ing season seems to vary. Peters notes two birds in juvenal dress 

 taken at Monte Cristi February 9, 1916. Abbott secured fully grown 

 young in this same immature plumage at Laguna on the Samana 

 Peninsula August 6, 1916, and near Constanza September 24, 1916, 

 and April 16, 1919. A male shot by Wetmore near Sanchez May 10, 

 1927, is molting into adult dress. 



Considerable uncertainty has attached to the bird described by 

 Ricord as Zoxia haitii 62 but as will be seen by the extract from the 

 original description to be given presently the supposed species is a 

 composite with nothing to indicate which of a number of New World 

 grosbeaks is intended. The author writes that he saw the bird in all 

 of the West Indies, on the Orinoco, and in Virginia, the only indica- 

 tion of Hispaniola being in his choice of haitii as a specific name. It 

 does not appear practicable to decide which of several forms in- 

 volved is the principal one as perusal of the following abstract will 

 indicate : 



" Note sur le Gros-Bec P£re-Noir, Loxia haitii, Ricord, par M. Alexandre 

 Ricord. 



Le plumage de la femelle du Gros-bec pere-noir est, pendant la premiere et la 

 seconde annfie, d'un gris tachete' de roux feuille-nioi - te et de noir, ce n'est 

 qu'a la troisi&ne mue qu'elle prend la livrSe que je vais d§crire. 



Toute la partie supSrieure est d'un roux feuille-morte ; la partie inf6rieure 

 et le cou d'un gris cendre' ; les plumes annales d'un roux clair ; bee : mandibule 



82 Rev. Zool., 1838, p. 167. 



