Pintail in the Dominican Republic

Abstract

In our account of the birds of Haiti and the Dominican Republic (Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., no. 155: 100, 1931), B. H. Swales and I recorded the Pintail (Dafila acura tzitzihoa) as of uncertain status. Mr. Hugh A. Johnston of Monte Cristi, under date of July 10, 1941, writes me that last winter migratory ducks were present in his vicinity by thousands, passing over his house in flocks that at times literally stretched across the entire sky. His observation was that the majority appeared to be the Pintail.