ic8 Cory on the Birds of the West Ind'es. 



Gray, Handl. Bds. II, p. 20S (1S70). — Scl. & Salv. Nom. Avium 

 Neotr. p. 107 (1S73).— Cory, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, VI, p. 154 

 (1881) ; ib. Bds. Haiti & San Domingo, p. 9S (1S85) ; ib. List Bds. 

 W. I. p. iS (1885)— Tristram, Ibis, 18S4, p. 16S. 

 Coccygus dominicensis Schleg. Mus. Pajs-Bas, I, p. 40 (1864). 



Sp. Char. Male: — Head, back, breast, and two central tail-feathers slate 

 color, darkest on the head, where it sometimes shows a faint brown- 

 ish tinge, and lightest, being almost ashj on the breast; wing- 

 coverts and tertiaries slaty gray, showing pale greenish reflections 

 when held in the light ; primaries and some of the secondaries bright 

 rufous brown, the first two edged with dull greenish, and all tipped 

 with the same color; outer tail-feathers bluish, tipped with white, 

 becoming dull olive' at the base; two central tail-feathers tipped 

 with black; throat and abdomen pale rufous; a bare space encircling 

 the eye bright red ; bill and legs slaty. 

 The sexes are similar. 



Length, 15.50; wing, 5.50; tail, 9; tarsus, 1.40; bill, 1.60. 

 Habitat. Haiti and San Domingo. 



Saurothera vieilloti Bp. 



Saurofhcra vetula Vieill. Nouv. Diet. XXXII, p. 348. — Lafr. Rev. Zool. 



iS47> P- 357- 



Saurothera vieilloti Bp. Consp. I, p. 97 (1S50). — Scl. Cat. Am. Bds. p. 

 324 (1862). SuNDEV. Oefv. K. Vet. Akad. For. 1869, p. 599. — 

 Gray, Handl. Bds. II, p. 20S (1870). — Scl. & Salv. Nom. Avium 

 Neotr. p. 107 (1873). — GuNDL. Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. VII, p- 

 230 (1878).— Cory, List Bds. W. I p. iS (1S85). 



Saurothera vieilloti var. rufescens Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. X> 

 p. 256 (1S66). 



Sp. Char. — Entire upper surface pale olive brown ; throat dull white, 

 shading into graj' on the breast; belly and under tail-coverts chest- 

 nut brown; tail olive, tipped with black, and narrowly edged on the 

 tip with white; primaries having the outer webs pale olive, and 

 and heavily marked with rufous on the terminal portions of the 

 inner webs; secondaries showing distinctly olive green. 

 The sexes are similar. 



Length, 16; wing, 5; tail, S.50; tarsus, 1.05: bill, 1.40. 

 Habitat. Porto Rico. 



Saurothera merlini D'Orb. 



Saurothera merlitii D'Orb. in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois. p. 152 

 (1840). — Bp. Consp. I, p. 97 (1S50). — Cab. J. f. O. 1856, p. 104. — 

 GuNDL. Journ. Bost. Soc Nat. Hist. VI, p. 319 (1857). — Brewer, 



