Records from the Dominican Republic

Abstract

Mr. George Hamor of Barahona, Dominican Republic, in two recent letters has supplied additional information on the range of the introduced Black and Yellow Mantled Weaverbird (Textor cucullatus cucullatus) that is of considerable interest. In August 1932, he found a colony of forty nests about twelve miles inland from Barahona at a locality known as Batey 1, on the holdings of the Barahona Company, Inc. In May 1933, another colony of twenty-five nests was found in the same vicinity. In June, three small groups were found in the Palo Alto section, about five miles inland from the Bay of Neiba. This is the farthest east from which the bird has been recorded. It may be observed that this area is directly connected through a great valley with the Cul-de-Sac region of Haiti, where this weaver is common. This species has been reported previously from the Dominican Republic only near Comendador on the Haitian frontier, where I found a colony in 1927.