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IderusdominicensisDAVinii, Traite d'Orn., ii, 1800, 335. — Temminck, Cat. Syst.,1807, 

 48. — Salle, Proo. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 232 (Santo Domingo). — Sclater, 

 Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 131, part (Santo Domingo); Ibis, 1883, 361 (monogr. ); 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1§86, 371 (Puerto Plata, Santo Domingo; Haiti).— 

 Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xi, 1866, 94 (Haiti; Santo Domingo). — Cory, 

 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 152 (Haiti); Birds Haiti and San Dom., 1885, 

 71, pi. (12) ; Auk, iii, 1886, 216 (synonymy and diagonsis); Birds W. I., 1889, 

 103 (do.); Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 14, 110, 131 (Haiti; Santo Domingo).— 

 Tristram, Ibis, 1884, 168 (Samana, Santo Domingo). — Cherrie, Contr. Orn. 

 San Domingo, 1896, 16. 



[Jetcrus'] dominiceyisis Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 36. — Cory, 

 List Birds W. I., 1885, 13. 



Xanthomus dominicensis Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1856, 10. 



l^PendiUinns^ dominicensis Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 432. 



Pendulinus dominicensis Gassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1867, 58 (monogr.; 

 Port au Prince, Haiti). 



Icterus dominicensis, var. dominicensis Baird, Brewer, and Rijjgway, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, ii, 1874, 182, footnote. 



Pendulinus JlavigasterY imLLOT'Nouw. Diet. d'Hist. Nat, v. 1816, 317 (= Oriolus 

 dominicensis hinnseus). 



PlendulinuslJiavigastei-Y ieiIjLot, Enc. Meth., ii, 1823, 705. 



ICTERUS LAUDABILIS Sclater. 

 SANTA LUCIA ORIOLE. 



Adults {sexes alike). — General color uniform deep black; lesser and 

 middle wing-coverts, whole rump, upper tail-covorts, lianks, lower 

 abdomen, anal region, and under tail-coverts, cadmium j^ellow varying 

 to cadmium orange;^ under wing-coverts pale yellow, deepening into 

 brighter 3^ellow or orange along edge of wing; bill black, with basal 

 portion of mandible bluish gray (pale grayish blue in life^; legs and 

 feet dusky gray (grayish blue in life?). 



Immature {transition jjlum age). — Head, neck, breast, back, scapulars, 

 greater wing-coverts, and a few of the rectrices black, the feathers of 

 the breast tipped with chestnut, and the hindneck tinged with the 

 same; rump and upper tail-coverts deep ocher-yellow, tinged with 

 olive; under parts (posterior to breast) deep ocher-yello wish; lesser and 

 middle wing-coverts light ocher-yellow blotched with black; remiges 

 grayish dusky edged with pale grayish brown; most of rectrices olive. 

 Adfult maZe.— Length (skins), 188-201.9 (191.8); wing, 91.9-100.6 

 (96.3); tail, 90.9-95 (93); culmen, from base, 23.6-25.9 (24.6); tarsus, 

 21.9-25.1(25.1); 16-17.3(16.5).' 



Island of Santa Lucia, Lesser Antilles. 



^ Some specimens have a greater or less admixture of chestnut at the line of junc- 

 tion of the black and yellow (or orange) of under parts. 



■■'Two specimens, the only ones that are sexed in a series of six. The extreme and 

 average measurements of this series are as follows: Length (skins), 188-205.7 (197.9) ; 

 wing, 88.4-102.9 (96.5); tail, 84.3-101.6 (93.5); culmen, from base, 23.6-26.2 (24.6); 

 depth of bill at base (one specimen), 9.4; tarsus, 24.4-25.9 (25.1); middle toe, 

 15.7-19.1 (17). 



