334 Dr. C. Chnsty— Field-Notes 



La Vega on April 4, had a large quantity of long, stiff, 

 thin, round worms in the peritoneal cavity, and also in 

 the cellular tissue on each side of the neck, reaching with 

 the backward prolongations of the hyoid right up as far as 

 the forehead. 



X35. CONURUS CHLOROPTERUS. 



(Cory, op. cit. p. 113.) 



I saw several small parties of this Paroquet, making a great 

 squeaking as they flew overhead as I returned from shooting 

 up the river Yuna -, but I was never able to obtain a specimen. 

 It is, I believe, very local. This and the following species 

 are both peculiar to the island. 



J 36. Chrysotis sall.^21. Locally " Cotoro.^^ 



(Corj^, op. cit. p. 115.) 



This Parrot is common in San Domingo. Round Sanchez 

 it was to be met with at every turn, flying out of its nesting- 

 hole in some old palm-tree or in small parties overhead, waking 

 the echoes with their screeches. 



I can testify from personal experience that the flesh of 

 this Parrot is very good eating, and it is much esteemed by 

 the natives, whom 1 often met coming home with a string of 

 half a dozen or more shot with their old muzzle-loaders. 



At times at Sanchez these birds afforded first-rate sport, 

 for ihey flew with the greatest regularity from their breeding- 

 haunts among the palm-trees in the sAvamp to the rice-fields 

 and other feeding-grounds eastward, and back again in the 

 evening, making all the way more noise than a flock of geese. 

 When in returning they found a strong wind against them 

 they were obliged to fly directly over the town^ and low 

 down to get the shelter of the hills, so that one only had to 

 take one^s stand on the veranda, or behind a palm-tree, or, 

 better still, between two houses, and shoot as they passed 

 over. But shooting was extremely difficult, owing to the high 

 wind, the speed at which the birds flew, and the suddenness 

 with which they rose to a higher level the instant they caught 

 sight of a man. 



