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Aramus scolopaceus giganteus Cory, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 155 (Haiti; 

 spec. ) . 



Elans scolopaceus Ledru, Voy. lies T^n^riffe, Triuite, Saint-Thomas, Sainte- 

 Croix, et Porto-Ricco, ii, 1810, 208 (Puerto Rico). 



Aramus giganteus Bryant, Journ. flir Orn., xiv, 1866, 191 (Puerto Rico) ; Proc. 

 Boston Soc Nat. Hist, x, 1866, 217 (Puerto Rico) ; xi, 1867, 97 (Santo 

 Domingo).— SuNDEVAKL, Ofv. Vet.-Akad. Forh., 1869, 601 (Puerto Rico).— 

 GuNDLACH, Journ. fiir Orn., xxii, 1874, 314 (Lares; Quebradillas ; Utuado, 

 Puerto Rico) ; xxvi, 1878, 162, 189 (Puerto Rico) ; Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat, 

 Tii, 1878, 387 (nesting; (Puerto Rico ) .— Stahl, Faun. Puerto Rico, 1883, 

 63, 152 (spec; Puerto Rico).— Cory, Auk, v, 1888, 50, part; Birds West 

 Indies, 1889, 251, part; Cat West Indian Birds, 1892, 90, part (Haiti; 

 Puerto Rico).— Tristram, Cat. Coll. Birds H. B. Tristram, 1889, 267 (Al- 

 mercen, Hispaniola ; spec. ) . — Verrill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 1909, 356 (Dominican Republic ) .—Wetmore, U. S. Dept. Agr. Bull. 326, 1916, 

 37-38 (north slopes of El Yunque; between Adjuntas and Maricao, and 

 near Utuado, Puerto Rico). 



[Aramus'\ giganteus Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 180, part (Greater Antilles 

 part). 



A[ramus^ gigantetis Ridgway, Man. North Amer. Birds, 1887, 136, part 

 (Greater Antilles, part). 



Aramus pictus Cory, Birds Haiti and San Domingo, 1885, 157. — Tippenhauer, 

 Die Insel Haiti, 1892, 323 (Haiti).— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiii, 

 1894, 238, part (Haiti). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, iii, 

 1903, 333, part [West Indies, part (= Haiti, based on Sharpe)]. 



Aramus pictus pictus Moltoni, Att. Soc. Ital. Scienz. Nat., Ixviii, 1929, 311 (Rio 

 Yuna; Bonao, Haiti; specimen). 



Aramus vociferus American Ornithologists' Union, Check List North Amer. 

 Birds, ed. 3, 1910, 101, part (Greater Antilles, part).— Cooke, U. S. Dept. 

 Agr. Bull. 128, 1914, 13, fig. 4, part (Puerto Rico; Haiti).— Peters, Bull. 

 Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixi, 1917, 403 (SosQa, Dominican Republic; specimen). 



Aramus pictus elucus Peters, Occ. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., v, 1925, 143 

 (SosQa, Dominican Republic). — Wetmore, New York Acad. Sci., Sci. Surv. 

 Porto Rico, etc., ix, pt. 3, 1927, 333 (genl. ; Puerto Rico; now rare; recently 

 found only on the Hacienda Jobo, between Utuado and Arecibo ; formerly 

 also on the slopes of El Yunque, above Rio Grande, and the peaks of El 

 Guilarte, west of Adjuntas; near Lares; and Quebradillas.) — Bond, Proc. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ixxx, 1928 (1929), 494 (Haiti, Gonave, and 

 Tortue; habits). — Wetmore, Auk, xlvii, 1930, 485 (Rabi(5 painting, His- 

 paniola). — Danforth, Auk, xlvi, 1929, 362 (Bonao, Villa Alta Gracia, His- 

 paniola). — LoNNBERG, Fauna och Flora, 1929, 100-101 (Haiti). — Bangs, Bull. 

 Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixx, 1930, 179 (type specimen in Mus. Comp. Zool.; 

 crit). — Wetmore and Swales, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 155, 1931, 128 (habits; 

 distr. ; Hispaniola). — Wetmore, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Ixxxi, art. 2, 1932, 15 

 (Montet, Haiti; measurements). — Wetmore and Lincoln. Proc. U. S. Nat 

 Mus., Ixxxii, art. 25, 1933, 22 (Dornien and Barahona, Haiti). 



Aramus scolopaceus elucus Peters, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 155. 



A[ramus] s[colopaceus] elucus Bond, Birds West Indies, 1936, 85 in text (His- 

 paniola, including Gonave and Tortuga Islands; and Puerto Rico). 



