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malar region deep buff or light ochraceous-buff;" lower breast, 

 abdomen, sides, flanks, thighs, anal region, under tail-coverts, 

 axillars, and under wing-coverts plain ochraceous-buff; maxilla 

 dusky gra/^ash brown; mandible dull yellowish (in dried skins), 

 dusky terminally; iris red; legs and feet dusky (in dried skins). 



Adult male.— Length, (skins), 370-408 (392); wing, 136.5-143.5 

 (139.6); tail, 190-233 (217.3); exposed cuhnen, 45-50 (47.7); tarsus, 

 34.5-37.5 (35.7); outer anterior toe, 22.5-25.5 (23.9).^ 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 376-405 (394); wing, 131-144 

 (138.8); tail 194-230 (215.9); exposed culmen, 43-51.5 (46.8); 

 tarsus, 33-39.5 (36.7); outer anterior toe, 21.5-26.5 (24.3).'= 



Island of Haiti (Le Coup, Aux Cayes, Jeremie, and Port au Prince, 

 Haiti; Samana, Puerto Plata, Cana Honda, La Canita, Sanchez, 

 Catare, Honduras, Mariel, Santo Domingo City, Aguacate, and La 

 Vega, Santo Domingo). 



Saurothera vetula (not Cuculus vetula Linnaeus) Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. 

 Nat., xxxii, 1819, 348, part (Santo Domingo). 



[Saurothera] vetula Gray, List Gen. Birds, 1841, 72. 



S{auroihera\ vetula Hartlaub, Verz. Mus. Bremen, 1844, 94. 



(?) Cuculus vetulus (not of Linnaeus) Lesson, Man. d'Orn., ii, 1828, 121 

 (" Jamaique ; " " Saint-Domingue " ) . 



Coccyzus pluvialis (not Cuculus pluvialis Linnaeus) Temminck, Tabl. Meth., 1836, 

 53. 



Saurothera dominicensis Lafresnaye, Rev. Zool., x, 1847, 355 (Santo Domingo). — 

 Salle, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 234.— Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., 

 xi, 1867, 95.— Cory, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 154 (Haiti; habits; 

 notes); BirdsHaitiandSanDom., 1885, 98, pi. (23), fig. 5; Auk, iii, 1886, 362; 

 Birds West Ind., 1889, 157; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 11, 102, 131.— Tris- 

 tram, Ibis, 1884, 168 (Santo Domingo). — Shelley, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 xix, 1891, 369.— Cherrie, Contr. Orn. San Dom., 1896, 19 (Santo Domingo).— 

 Christy, Ibis, 1897, 331 (Santo Domingo; habits). — Verrill(A. E.and A. H.), 

 Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1909, 359 (Santo Domingo; habits). 



S[aurothera] dominicensis Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 96. — Cabanis and 

 Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, Heft i, 1863, 90. 



[Saurothera] dominicensis Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 208, no. 8897. — Sclater and 

 Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 107.— Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885,18.— 

 Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 169. 



Coccygus dominicensis Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, i, no. 25 (Cuculi), 1864, 40. 



Saurothera domingensis Wiirttemberg, MS. Hartlaub, Naumannia, 1852, Heft 

 ii, 55. 



" There is a remarkably great amount of purely individual variation in the extent 

 and intensity of the buffy color on the throat, etc., in a large series of specimens; 

 sometimes only the chin, extteme upper throat, and anterior portion of the malar 

 region are very buffy; in other specimens the whole throat and median foreneck are 

 thus colored ; more rarely the median line of the chest is the same color, thus nearly 

 if not quite connecting with the similar but deeper color of the posterior under parts, 

 and the color varies from a pale buff to deep buffy cinnamon or clay color. 



b Ten specimens. 



<! Ten specimens. 



1957°— Bull. 50, pt 7—16 5 



