BIKDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



545 



Adult maZe.— Length (skins), 95-106 (102); wing, 49-54.5 (52.8), 

 tail, 38-44 (41.6); middle rectrices, 20-25 (22.6); ciilmen, 17-19 

 (17.4).- 



Adult female.— Length, (skins), 91-104 (99); wing, 49-54 (51.8); 

 tail, 34-38 (36.9); middle rectrices, 23-25.5 (24.4); ciilmen, 17-19.5 

 (IS.4).^ 



Bahama Islands (Abaco; Little Abaco; Great Bahama; Elbow 

 Cay; Andros; New Providence?) 



{?)Sporadinus bracei Lawrence, Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci., i, Dec, 1877, 50 (New 



Providence, Bahamas; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). — Elliot, Classif. and Synop. 



Troch., 1879, 240, footnote.— Cory, Birds Bahama I., 1880, 11:3. 

 [Sporadinus] ricordi Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 94, part 



(Abaco I., Bahamas). 

 Sporadinus ricordi Cory, Birds Bahama Is., 1880, 11 (Andros; Long Bay Cay); 



Auk, viii, 1891, 298 (Abaco), 350 (Great Bahama; Abaco). — Ridgway, 



Auk, viii, 1891, 334 (Abaco).— Northrop, Auk, viii, 1891, 74 (Andros). 



Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 57, part (in synonymy). 

 [Sporadinus] riccordi (not Ornismya ricordii Gervais) Cory, List Birds West Ind. 



1885, 18, part (Bahamas). 

 Sporadinus riccordi Elliot, Classif. and Synop. Troch., 1879, 241, part (Abaco, 



Bahamas).— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 259, part; Birds West Ind., 1889, 153, 



part; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 13, part.— Bonhote, Ibis, 1903, 293 



(Andros and Little Abaco islands, Bahamas; crit.). 

 Sporndinus riccordii Cory, Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 107, 144, part (Bahamas). 

 R[icordia] ricordi Hartert, Das Tierreich, Troch., 1900, 81, part (Bahamas; 



monogr.). 

 [Ricordia] ricordi Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 114, part (Bahamas). 

 Riccordia xneoviridis Palmer and Riley, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xv, March 5, 



1902, 34 (Abaco, Bahamas; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.).— Allen (G. M.), Auk, 



xxii, 1905, 127 (Great Abaco; Little Abaco; Great Bahama; and "all the 



outer cays" with bushes). 

 Riccordia ricordii seneoviridis Riley, Auk, xxii, 1905, 356 (Abaco; crit.). 



« Fifteen specimens. 



& Nine specimens. 



Locality. 



MALES. 



Ten adult males from Abaco island 53 42.1 22.7 17.3 



Two adult males from Great Bahama island 53 42 25 17.2 



Two adult males from Andros island 51.5 38.5 21 17.5 



FEMALES. 



Six adult females from Abaco 52.7 37.5 2.5 18.8 



One adult female from Little Abaco 52.5 37 24.5 18 



Two adult females from Andros 49 35.2 23 17.2 



Cul- 

 men. 



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