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CALYPTOPHILUS FRUGIVORUS (Cory). 

 CHAT-THRASHER. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Pileuni and hindneck dark slaty olive, the 

 feathers indistinctly darker centrally, producing very indistinct small 

 elongated spots; sides of head, down to upper margin of malar region, 

 similar but lighter and grayer, especially the superciliary region; 

 lores largely yellow anteriorlj^ or centrally, producing a more or less 

 extensive spot, more or less broken by small dusky specks; poste- 

 rior portion of upper eyelid yellow or yellowish white ; back, scapu- 

 lars, rump, upper tail-coverts, wings, and tail plain olive, the remiges 

 sometimes slightly more brownish, the lesser wing-coverts inclining to 

 olive-green; edge of wing, under wing-coverts, and axillars canary 

 yellow; under parts (including malar region) white, passing into light 

 grayish olive on sides, flanks, and under tail-coverts, the latter mar- 

 gined, more or less broadly, with white, brownish white, or pale ful- 

 vous; maxilla blackish brown, paler on tomia; mandible light horn 

 color in dried skins (bluish gray in life ?) ; legs and feet light horn 

 brownish (in dried skins) . 



Adult waZe.— Length (skins), 184-194 (189); wmg, 84-94.5 (89.2); 

 tail, 81.5-88.5 (85); exposed culmen, 20.5; tarsus, 27-28.5 (27.7); 

 middle toe, 18.5.« 



Adult female. — Length (skins), 170-185.5 (178); wing, 80.5-82.5 

 (81.2); tail, 72-80 (76.5); exposed culmen, 19.5-20.5" (20); tarsus, 

 27-28 (27-3); middle toe, 17.5-19.5 (18.3).^ 



Island of Haiti, Greater Antilles. 



Phcenicophilus frugivorus Cory, Quart. Journ. Bost. Zool. Soc, ii, no. 4, Oct., 



1883, 45 (Santo Domingo; coll. C. B. Cory). 

 Calyptophilus frugivorus Cory, Auk, i, Jan., 1884, 3; iii, 1886, 201; Birds Haiti 



and San Dom., 1885, 59, pi. (9); Birds West Ind., 1889, 88; Cat. West Ind. 



Birds, 1892, 16, 114, 131.— Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 235.— 



Cherrie, Pub. 10, Field Columb. Mus., Orn. Ser., i, no. 1, 1896, 14 



(Aguacate, Santo Domingo). — Christy, Ibis, 1897, 323 (La Vega, Santo 



Domingo). 

 [Calyptophilus] frugivorus Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885, 12; revised ed., 



1886, 12. 



Family STURNID/E. 



THE STARLINGS. 



Ten-primaried Acutiplantar Oscines, with the tenth (outermost) pri- 

 mar}^ rudimentar}^, acuminate; nostrils nearer to tomium than to cul- 

 men, overhung by a conspicuous, somewhat tumid, sometimes feath- 

 ered, operculum; wing long, usually pointed (ninth primary longest 

 in typical genera), but with tip falling short of tip of tail. 



" Two specimens. b Three specimens. 



