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Man. Orn. United States and Canada, Water Birds, 1834, 68. — Audubon, Om. 

 Biogr., iv, 1838, 543 (not pi. 377, which=true A. scolopaceus!) ; Synopsis, 

 1839, 217; Birds Amer., 8vo ed., v, 1842, 181 (not pi. 812, which=A. scolopa- 

 ceus). — GossE, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 355 (Jamaica). — Bryant, Proc. Boston 

 Soc. Nat. Hist., 1854, 20 (descr. trachea). 



\_Aramus] scolopacea Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., ii, 1857 [1854], 103, part 

 (supposed young). 



Nothcrodius scolopaceus Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., iv, 1856, 426 (Cuba). — Gund- 

 LACH, Journ. fiir Orn., x, 1S62, 89 (Cuba ; crit). 



Notherodius holostictus Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., iv, 1856, 426 (Cuba). 



INotherodius] scolopaceus Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 

 321, part (Cuba). 



Aramus vociferus holostictus Miller (W. DeW.) and Griscom, Amer. Mus. Nov., 

 No. 25, 1921, 12, 13, part (Greater Antilles).— Oberholseb, Auk, xl, 1923, 

 678. 



Aramus guarauna (not Scolopax guaranna Gmelin) D'Orbigny, in La Sagra's 

 Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois., 1839, 256 (Spanish ed., p. 177).— Brewer, Proc. Boston 

 Soc. Nat. Hist., vii, 1860, 308 (Cuba). 



A[ramus'\ Guarauna Lembete, Aves Isle de Cuba, 1850, 134. 



Notherodius guarana Wagi^er, Isis, 1829, 657 (Cuba). 



ARAMUS SCOLOPACEUS ELUCUS Peters 

 HiSPANIOIAN LiMPKIN 



Adult (sexes alike). — Similar to Aramus scolofaceus pictus but 

 averaging slightly darker brown — dark raw umber to dark mummy 

 brown and dark sepia ; the white streaks smaller generally, and espe- 

 cially on the lesser upper wing coverts, where they are reduced to 

 narrow shaft stripes. 



Other plumages not known. 



Adult male.—W\\\g 313-323 (319) ; tail 130-140 (135) ; exposed cul- 

 men 100-110 (106.2) ; tarsus 107-113 (109.5) ; middle toe without claw 

 77-81 (79.2mm.)==^ 



Adult female: Wing 290-302 (295.7) ; tail 121-129 (125.3) ; exposed 

 culmen 85-101 (94.3) ; tarsus 102-108 (105) ; middle toe without claw 

 73-80 (77.3mm.).'« 



Range. — Resident in Puerto Rico (the vicinity of Haciendo Jobo; 

 Lares; Quebradillas ; Utuado; slopes of El Yunque; between Adjuntas 

 and Maricao; formerly also Rio Grande and the mountains of El 

 Guilarte) ; and the island of Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican 

 Republic — Almerccn; Rio Yuna; Bonao; Gonave; Tortue; Villa 

 Alta Gracia; Montet; Sosiia). 



Ty^e locality. — Sosua, Dominican Republic. 



Ardea scolopacea Rittee, Naturh. Reise vrestind., Insel Hayti, 1836, 157 (Haiti). 

 Aramus scolopaceus Saix6, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1857, 236 (Dominican 

 Republic ; habits). 



" Four specimens from Haiti and the Dominican Republic. 

 * Three specimens from Haiti and the Dominican Republic. 



