Cory oti the Birds of the West Indies. ^57 



— Allen, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, V, p. 169 (iSSo). — Lister, Ibis, 

 18S0, p. 41.— Cory, Bds Bahama I. p. ii8(i8So); ib. Bull. Nutt. 

 Orn. Club, VI, p. 154 (1881) ; ib. Bds. Haiti & San Domingo, p. 100 

 (1885) ; ib. List Bds. W. I. p. iS (1SS5).— Ridgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus. VII, p. 172 (1884). 



Crotophaga minor Less. Tr. Orn. p. 130 (1831). 



Crotophaga Icevirostris? Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 105 



(1859)- 

 Crotophaga rugirostrisGvsT)!.. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 296 (1866). 



Sp. Char. Male: — Upper mandible much curved ; culmen rising above 

 the head, flattened to a sharp edge; nostrils situated in the middle 

 of the lower half of the upper mandible; general color black, show- 

 ing bluish reflections; the feathers of the head, neck, breast, and 

 upper part of the back with metallic bronze borders; iris brown. 

 The sexes are similar. 



Length, 12.25; wing, 6.20; tail, 7.50; tarsus, 1.50; bill, 1. 10. 

 Habitat. West Indies. 



Genus Saurothera Vieill. 



Saurothera Vieillot, "Analyse, p. 36, 1816." 



Saurothera vetula (Linn.). 



Cuculus vetula Linn. Syst. Nat. I, p. 169 (1766). 



Saurothera j'atnaicensis Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1847, P'354- 



Saurothera vetula Gosse, Bds. Jam. p. 273 (1S47). — Bp. Consp. I, p. 96 

 (1850). — Albrecht, J. f. O. 1862, 202. — ScL. Cat. Am. Bds. p. 323 

 (1862). — March, Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, p. 283. — Gray, 

 Handl. Bds. II, p. 208 (1870). — ScL. & Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. 

 p. 107 (1S73). — A. & E. Newton, Handb. Jamaica, p. 109 (1881). — 

 Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 18 (1SS5). 



Coccygus vetula Schleg. Mus. Pajs-Bas, I, p. 39 (1864). 



Sp. Char. — Top of head, including the eye, dark olive brown; lighter 

 brown on the nape; rest of back and wings light gray ; throat white ; 

 breast and belly tinged with pale rufous; under surface of wings 

 chestnut rufous ; primaries chestnut rufous, tipped with pale olive; 

 tail feathers, except central ones, bluish black, tipped with white. 

 The sexes are similar. 



Length, 14.50; wing, 5; tail, 7.50; tarsus, i; bill, 1.50. 

 Habitat. Jamaica. 



Saurothera dominicensis Lafr. 



Saurothera dominicensis Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1847, p. 355 — Salle, P. Z. S. 

 1857, p. 234.— Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. XI, p. 95 (1866).— 



