sentences:  Buffon's specimen was probably collected in the French colony of Saint-Domingue which occupied the western end of Haiti.In 1921 the American ornithologist James L. Peters restricted the type locality to Port-au-Prince in Haiti.The Greater Antillean grackle is now one of six species placed in the genus "Quiscalus", that was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot in 1816.