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\Cmdocerlhia] gutturalis Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 263, no. 3854.— Sclater and 

 Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 2.— Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885, 6."— 

 Sharpe, Hand-list, Iy, 1903, 109. 



Genus C ALYPTOPHILUS Cory. 



Calypf.ophiliis f Cory, Auk, i, Jan., 1884, 3. (Type, Phoenicophilvs fntcjivorus 



Cory.) 



Small Mimid?P? (length about 190 mm.) with much compressed, 

 conoid or siibcimeate bill, no rictal bristles, very large outermost 

 primary (nearly as long as longest secondaries), very broad tarsi, 

 and with yellow axillars and carpus. 



Bill much shorter than head, very much compressed (depth at 

 frontal antia:> very much greater than its width at same point), elon- 

 gate-conoid or subcuneate in lateral profile ; exposed culmen equal to 

 middle toe without claw or slightly longer, slightly decurved ter- 

 minally; gonys straight or just appreciably convex, ascending ter- 

 minally, its base nearl}^ on line with anterior end of nasal fosste ; max- 

 illary tomium nearly straight for most of its length, distinctly notched 

 subterminally. Nostril rather small, broadly ovoid, with broad 

 membrane above and narrow, wedge-shaped membrane below, pos- 

 teriorly in contact with erect feathering of frontal antia;. Rictal bris- 

 tles wanting. Wing rather large, rounded, the longest primaries 

 exceeding longest secondaries by less than distance from nostril to 

 tip of maxilla; outermost (tenth) primary very large, nearly as long 

 as longest secondaries, the ninth only about 10 mm. longer and about 

 equal to fourth, the eighth, seventh, sixth, and fifth longest and 

 nearly equal. Tail about equal to wing or slightly shorter, graduated 

 (graduation about equal to length of middle toe without claw), the 

 rectrices rather narrow, tapering somewhat at tip. Tarsus a little 

 more than one-third as long as wing, very broad (its width at middle 

 equal to about one-eighth its length), the acrotarsium distinctly 

 scutellate; middle toe (without claw) two-thirds as long as tarsus; 

 lateral toes unequal, the inner reaching to, or very slightly beyond, the 

 subterminal joint of middle toe, the outer distinctly beyond; hallux 

 as long as inner toe, much stouter; l)asal phalanx of middle toe united 

 for more than half its length to outer toe, nearly half its length to 

 inner toe; claws normal in size and curvature. 



Coloration. — Above plain olive, more grayish on head; beneath 

 white, the sides, flanks, and under tail-coverts light olive; axillars, 

 edge of wing, and loral spot yellow. 



Nidiji cation. — ( Unknown . ) 



Range. — Island of Haiti, Greater Antilles. (Monotypic.) 



