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Adult fe7nale.—Lmgth (skins), 199.7-209.6 (205); wing, 90.2-93.5 

 (91.7); tail, 79.8-86.4 (83.1); culmen, from base, 24.4-25.1 (24.6); 

 depth of bill at base (one specimen), 8.1; tarsus, 23.1-23.4; middle toe, 

 18-19.1 (18.5).' 



Island of Porto Rico, Greater Antilles. 



Icterus dominicensis (not Oriohis do)nmicensis Linnteus) Taylor, Ibis, 1864, 167 



(Porto Rico). 

 Icterus dovi'micensis var. ■porforlcensis Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., x, 1866,254 



(Porto Rico).— SuNDEVALL, Ofv. k. Vet.-Ak. Forh. Stockh., 1869, 597.— 



Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 182, footnote. 

 Fendulinns portoricensis Cassii^, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1867, 58 (monogr. ). 

 Icterus porioriceiisis ScLATER, Ibis, 1883, 361 (monogr.); Cat. Birds Brit. Mu8.,xi, 



1886, 371 (n. side Porto Rico). — Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 217 (synonymy and 



diagnosis); Birds W. I., 1889, 104 (do.); Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 15, 110, 132 



(Porto Rico). 

 [Icterus'] portoricensis Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 36. — Cory, 



List Birds W. I., 1885, 13. 

 Xanthornus portoricensis Gundlach, Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat., vii, 1878, 210 



(Porto Rico) . 



ICTERUS DOMINICENSIS (Linnaeus). 

 HAITIAN ORIOLE. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Similar to /. hi/pomelas, but upper and under 

 tail-coverts wholly yellow and flanks more or less yellow; bill longer 

 and more slender. 



Y(ntn(j {^first j)Iumaf/e).—}lGiid and neck brown, becoming grayer 

 on chin and throat; back and scapulars more grayish (broccoli) brown; 

 lower rump light dull butfy yellowish, gradually shading into color of 

 back; lesser and middle wing-coverts light yellow, the former tinged 

 with brownish; greater coverts dusky, broadly edged with pale yel- 

 low; rest of wings grayish dusky with pale edgings, these nearly white 

 on terminal portion of longer primaries; tail olive with lighter, more 

 yellowish olive, edgings; under parts canary yellow posteriori}', shading 

 into wood brownish on breast, etc. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 185.4-207 (196.3); wing, 91.4-99.1 

 (96.8); tail, 82-90.9 (87.6); culmen, from base, 21.8-24.4 (23.1); depth 

 of bill at base, 7.6-8.4 (7. 9); tarsus, 23.4-24.9 (24.1); middle toe, 15.7- 

 19.3 (17.8).' 



Adult female. — Length (skin), 194.3; wing, 91.9; tail, 84.1; culmen, 

 from base, 22.1; tarsus, 24.1; middle toe, 18.3.^ 



Island of Haiti, Greater Antilles. 



[Orioius'] dominicensis Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 163 (based on Carouge 

 de St. Domingue Daubenton, PI. Enl., pi. 5, fig. 2). — Gmelin, Syst. Nat., 1, 

 pt. i, 1788, 391.— Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 182. 



^ Two specimens. 



^ Five specimens, three of them not sexed, but probably males. 



^ One specimen. 



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