The next morning a Black-necked Blue Warbler and two Maryland Yellow-necked Warblers came aboard and they got the first specimen of the expedition, a Yellow-throated Warbler. On March 4, the group stopped to assemble at Cayo Grande de Moa and near the Moa Estuary. On May 6, a trip to the swampy area in the eastern part of the island was made.
2 BIRDS COLLECTED IN CUBA AND HAITI WETMORE O . and Swales ^ have listed 84 forms from that island on the basis of the collections mentioned. The occurrence of the knock rail is of interest as it is clearly a local phenomenon in this region.
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A female, which was banded at Cayo Grande de Moa on March 7, is an adult bird in post-breeding plumage. This specimen has a wingspan of 495 mm and is a representative of the northern race found along the coast of the south-eastern United States, distinguished from the West Indian bird by its larger size. Six specimens of this boobie were taken from the hundreds seen on Navassa Island on May 10, 1930.
The skins produced include a young bird in downy plumage with partially grown wing and tail feathers. The breeding colony here appears to be extensive as collectors speak of hundreds of birds seen.
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2 BIRDS COLLECTED IN CUBA AND HAITI WETMOEE 11. 12 PROCEDURE OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM vol.81. complete bridal dress in beautiful condition. According to Barbour*, both the egret and the snowy egret are rare in Cuba today. In view of the few records of this handsome heron off Haiti, it is of interest to report an adult female in beautiful breeding clothes with the fully developed plumes of S.
Peters^ is correct in using the genus Leucophoyx Sharpe for this species, which certainly differs from Egretta garzetta^ type of the genus Egretta, in the form of crest and breast feathers. A male, fully grown, was obtained on March 16 at the mouth of the Moa River near Cayo Grande de Moa, Cuba. Two others in full breeding agreement were secured on Grande Cayemite Island on April 12, and laid a Vache on May 6.
Two were taken near Gibara on February 21 and 24; one from Puerto de Tanamo, Cuba, March 2; and one from Cayo Grande de Moa, March 4. ABT.2 BES COLLECTED IN CUBA AND HAITI WETMORE 13 Three specimens from Haiti prepared as skins include adults in.
ABT. 2 BIEDS COLLECTED IN CUBA AND HAITI WETMORE 13 Three specimens from Haiti prepared as skins include adults in
Two adults in fine plumage were taken, a male at the western end of the island of Gonave on March 21 and a female at Petite. The female has a more extensive dark area on the abdomen and the blackness is more continuous than the male. Three skins taken at Vache on April 30 and May 1 represent new locality records for an interesting bird apparently now rare except in the Cayem Islands, where Abbott provided a number.
Two of the skins obtained are adult males and the third is a fully grown immature bird. The species has been rarely recorded in recent years on the main island and may be declining in numbers. Doctor Hellmayr informs me that Cory's species were named Samana, the male being taken on April 19th and the female on April 4th.
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Another was collected at Petit Trou de Nippes on April 9th, and another on lie a Vache on May 6th. A female was collected on Petite Gonave Island on March 19, and two were seen at Montet, near Port au Prince, on March 28. Two males obtained on March 4 on Cayo Grande de Moa, Cuba, have the darker dorsal color that distinguishes the West Indian.
In Haiti, specimens of this bird were taken at Grand-Boucan on April 9 and at Grande Cayemite on April 13. A female representative of the resident deer race was taken at Petit Trou de Nippes on April 9. A female still in winter plumage was shot above the mouth of the Rio Gibara, near Gibara, Cuba, on February 25, and a complete male.
Skeletons were obtained near the mouth of the Gibara River, Cuba, on February 24 and at Cayo Grande de Moa on March 4. A female in full summer plumage was taken at Montet, near Port au Prince, on March 28th. One preserved as a skeleton was obtained near the mouth of the Gibara River, Cuba, on February 24.
Another preserved as a skeleton was taken at the same place on the same date, and one was seen at Montet, near Port au Prince, on March 28th.
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An adult female was taken at the west end of Gonave Island on 21 March and a male prepared as a skeleton on Grande Cayemite on 12 April. Jamaica, Hispaiiiola and Old Providence Island. Specimens of the skeleton or alcohol were obtained on Bug Island, opposite Corail, on April 18th, and on the Vache Range on May 3rd, two juvenile birds being included from the latter locality.
The size of this egg is similar to that of specimens I have seen from Haiti.
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The receipt of five skins in unworn feathers taken during the work of the Parish-Smithsonian expedition of 1930 corroborates the earlier observations of lighter color and leaves no hesitation in describing this race.
AET. 2 BIRDS COLLECTED IN CUBA AND HAITI WETMOEB 23 Order PSITTACIFORMES
Three were taken at Gibara, Cuba, on February 21st and one at Rio Fabrico off Cayo Grande de Moa on March 8th. The specimen from Navassa seems to show that this curious bird is regularly found there, as there is an old skin in the National Museum taken on this island on December 3, 1890, by J.
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2, and 2 miles above the mouth of the Kio Moa, opposite Cayo Grande de Moa, on March 6. Examination of the considerable range of Cuban todies in the National Museum collections indicates that the two breeds identified by Barbour and Brooks are easily distinguishable. distinguished, the east. Because the distribution areas of the two forms have yet to be worked out in detail, the locations for the specimens in our collection are listed as follows.
Amin a namaris: Pagdigusan ti San Vincent, San Diego dagiti Pagdigusan, Cabanas ken El Guama iti Pinar ti probinsia llio;. Amin dagiti namaris a naidestiero: Santiago, Guantanamo, St. Louis, Guama, El Cobre ken ti Sangladan ti Tanamo, iti Daya a Probinsia. Nasarakan dagiti nasaknap a kudil ti lowlander ken alkoholiko iti makindaya a murdong ti Gonave Island, Haiti, idi Marso 21.
Skins of this abundant woodpecker were obtained at Port au Prince on March 28th and 31st, ten miles east of Baraderes on April 6th. Young individuals preserved in alcohol were taken at Petite Cayemite on 16 April and at lie en Vache on 3 May. A male was taken on March 8 near the mouth of the Rio Fabrico, opposite Cayo Grande de Moa.
ABT. 2 BIRDS COLLECTED IN CUBA AND HAITI WETMORE 29 TOLMARCHUS CAUDIFASCIATUS CAUDIFASCIATUS (d'Orbigny)
Half a dozen pairs were observed around the low cliffs at the western end of Gonave Island on 21st March and two birds were taken. A male and a female in full plumage were tied to the west end of a Vache on 2nd May.
AKT. 2 BIRDS COLLECTED IN CUBA AND HAITI WETMORE 31 MIMUS POLYGLOTTOS DOMINICUS (Linnaeus)
A female of the Abundant Palm-chat was taken at Petit Trou de Nippes on April 9, together with two young birds placed in alcohol. The series of Gundlach's vireo in the National Museum, including 10 specimens from western Cuba and 7 from the eastern part of the island, clearly show the marks of diversity assigned by Todd. Without having examined the material in the Museum of Comparative Zoology on which Doctor Barbour ^* based his conclusion that the orientaUs were not valid, I am led to think that it may be recognized.
An extensive series of this vireo includes skins from the following localities: Gonave Island, March 21; ten miles east of Baraderes, April 6; Petite Cayemite Island, April 12; Grande Cayemite Island, April 12; lie a Vache, May 1 and 2; Navassa Island, May 10. 2 BIEDA COLLECTED IN CUBA AND HAITI WETMORE 33 A single specimen from Navassa Island, an adult male in fresh condition.
ART. 2 BIEDS COLLECTED IN CUBA AND HAITI WETMORE 33 The single specimen from Navassa Island, an adult male in fresh
Skeletons were prepared at Gibara on 21 February and at Cayo Grande de Moa on 4 March. They may be referred to the shape of the main island, bein<; similar in size and color. Islands is, as might be expected, the race found on Gonave itself, being lighter in color and larger than the sldns of the adjacent coasts of the Republic of Haiti.
One skied baby Gibara, Cuba, on February 24; one by Puerto de Tanamo on March 2; and one by Cayo Grande de Moa on March.
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An interesting record is two black warblers, taken on 2 and 6 May in a vache, as there has been only one previous report of this bird in the Republic of Haiti, that of James Bond. The four skins taken come from 10 miles southwest of Port au Prince, Haiti, March 31; and from Petite Cayemite Island, April 14 and 15. One of the latter, a male, has dark lines on each side of the crown reduced to a very narrow line.
A female with the browner color and smaller size representative of this race was taken on March 4 on Cayo Grande de Moa, Cuba. A female from Petite Gonave Island, Haiti, March 19, and a male from lie a Vache, May 6, also belong to the eastern race of this bird. A male from Grande Cayemite Island, taken on April 13, adds another sighting record for this race in Haiti.
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Two were obtained at Gibara on February 24 and 25, and one at the mouth of the Rio Moa, opposite Cayo Grande de Moa, on March 6.
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