228 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Q [«y.sca?w.s] c-rnf^sirodris Newton (A. and E. ), Handb. Jamaica, 1881, 103. 

 (?) Sclaphidurus} crassirustris Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 426 (Jamaica?). 

 (?) " Quiscalus vulgaris TEMMmcK, Tabl. M^h., 1838, 10." 



HOLOQUISCALUS NIGER (Boddaert). 

 HAITIAN GRACKLE. 



Similar to II. gundlaehl/', Itut smaller and with the violet gloss to 

 the plumage much less pronounced, the gloss on greater wing-coverts 

 and secondaries dull violet-bluish instead of green. 



^^^/i^ma/.^— Length (skins), 248.9-281.9 (268.2); wing, 122.J-137.9 

 (132.1); tail, 106.7-125 (116.8); culmen, from base, 34-35.1 (34.5); 

 depth of bill at base, 10.7-11.7 (10.9); tarsus, 35.1-37.6 (36.1); middle 

 toe, 23.4-27.2 (25.9).' 



Adult female. — Length (skin), 241.3; wing, 118.6; tail, 102.9; cul- 

 men, from base, 27.4; tarsus, 32.5; middle toe, 24.1.^ 



Island of Haiti, Greater Antilles. 



Oriolus niger Boddaert, Tabl. PI. Enl., 1783, 31 (based on Troupiale noir, de St. 



Domingne, Daubenton, PI. Enl., pi. 534).' — Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 185. 

 Icterus niger Temminck, Cat. Syst., 1807, 48. 

 Algelaius'] niger Vieillot, Enc. Meth., ii, 1823, 718. 

 Quiscalus niger Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 407 (monogr. ; Jeremie, 



Haiti).— ScLATER, Ibis, 1884, 159 (monogr.); Cat. Birdn Brit. Mns., xi, 1886, 



398.— Cory, Birds Haiti and San Dom., 1885, 73, pi. 22, fig. 1; Auk, iii, 1886, 



226; Birds W. I., 1889, 113; Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 15, 111, 131.— Cherrie, 



Contr. Orn. St. Domingo, 1896, 17. 

 \_Qui^calus'\ niger Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 38, no. 6529. — Cory, List Birds 



W. I., 1885, 14. 

 \_Quiscahis haritus'] var. niger Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, 



ii, 1874, 213. 

 Holoquiscalus niger Ridgway, Proc. Wash. Ac. Sci., iii, Apr. 15, 1901, 151. 

 Quiscalus ater "Baird" Bryant, Proc. Boat. Soc. N. H., xi, 1866, 94 (Santo 



Domingo).— Cory, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 153 (Haiti).— Tristram, 



Ibis, 1884, 168 (Santo Domingo). 



HOLOQUISCALUS BRACHYPTERUS (Cassin). 

 PORTO RICAN GRACKLE. 



Similar in coloration to II. niger ., but averaging slightly larger and 

 with the bill shorter and more strongly decurved terminally and 

 much more compressed; iris l)right yellow.^ 



Adult ma^e.— Length (skins), 261.6-299.7 (272.8); wing, 130-134.6 

 (132.3); tail, 114.6-120.4 (117.6); culmen, from base, 33-33.5 (33.3); 

 depth of bill at base, 10.2-11.7 (10.9); tarsus, 35.8-37.8 (36.8); middle 

 toe, 25.7-27.7 (26.4).^ 



Adxdt female.— I^^n^ih (skins), 233.5-259.1 (242.8); wing, 108.7-116.3 

 (112.5); tail, 92.7-102.1 (97); culmen, from base, 28.5-31.8 (30.2); 



^ Five specimens. ^ One specimen. * C. W. Richmond, manuscript. 



