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CINCLOCERTHIA RUFICAUDA RUFICAUDA (Gould). 

 DOMINICAN TREMBLER. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Pileiim plain deep gra^asli brown, more 

 grayish laterally, on superciliary region; liindneck similar but 

 browner, the color gradually changing posteriorly through olive- 

 brown on back and scai)ulars to rufous-brown or russet on upper 

 tail-coverts; remiges and rectrices russet-brown or mars brown, the 

 greater wing-coverts edged with the same; loral and postocular 

 regions blackish; suborbital and auricular regions (except upper por- 

 tion of latter) grayish olive-brown or brownish olive-gray, the former 

 sometimes minutely barred with dusky; malar region similar but 

 paler; cliin and throat pale grayish Iniffy, this deepening on chest into 

 grayish wood brown or isabella color, this fading into buffy Avood 

 brown or brownisli buff on median portion of breast and abdomen; 

 sides and flanks cinnamon-brown; under tail-coverts lighter, more 

 buffy cinnamon; axillars and under wing-coverts plain buffy cin- 

 namon or cinnamomeous wood brown; bill blackish, the lower 

 basal portion of mandible, more or less extensively, paler; iris j^ellow; 

 legs and feet light horn color (in dried skins). 



Young. — Essentially like adults in coloration, but chest faintly 

 spotted with dusky grayish, and texture of plumage more lax. 



Adult male.—hength (skins), 205-230 (216); wing, 92-97 (94.6); 

 tail, 78-81 (79.5) ; exposed culmen, 28-29 (28.2) ; tarsus, 28-29 (28.4); 

 middle toe, 19-20 (19.5).« 



Adult female. —Length (skins), 207-225 (215); wing, 88-95 (90.7); 

 tail, 72-81 (76.5); exposed culmen, 31-35 (33.2); tarsus, 28; middle 

 toe, 20-21 (20.5). « 



Island of Dominica, Lesser Antilles. 



Slcnorhynchus riijicauda Gould, Proc. Zoo!. Soc. LoiuL, J835, 186 (locality un- 

 known).'' 



Cindocerthia raficauda Gray, List Gen. Birds, 1840, 17. — Sclater, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Lond., 1859, 3.38, part (in synonymy); 1889, 326 (Dominica); Cat. Am. 

 Birds, 1802, 7. part (do.). — Sclater and Salvin, Exotic Orn., pt. ii, 1867, 

 19, part (in synonymy). — Lawrence, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mas., i, 1878, 52 

 (Dominica); i, 1879, 486, part (Dominica). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 vi, 1881, 323, part (Dominica). — Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 17, part (Dominica); 

 Birds West Ind., 1889, 31, part (do.); Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 19, 120, 

 part (do.). — Verrill, Trans. Conn. Acad. Sci., 1892, 343 (habits; song; 

 descr. nest and eggs). 



" Four specimens. 



b Not only was the locality unknown to Gould, but the type, according to Doctor 

 Sclater, has been lost. 1 have, therefore, somewhat arbitrarily, restricted the name 

 t(i llic form inhabiting the island of Dominica, a decision which has been to a great 

 ex lent [Mompted by the fact that the bird from that island seems to agree more closely 

 willi llic description than do those from other islands. 



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