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webs of primaries grayish brown, the inner webs cinnamon-rufous 

 passing into grayish brown or grayish oUve on distal portion (exten- 

 sively) ; rectrices (except middle pair) tipped with duU wliite and 

 crossed by a broad subterminal band of black, the white tip gradually 

 but decidedly decreasing in width toward the innermost rectrices; 

 chin and throat dull grayish white to dull buffy grayish white, passing 

 into deeper pale buffy grayish on foreneck, chest, and upper breast; 

 rest of under parts, including under wing-coverts and under taU- 

 co verts, pale buff or cream-buff; under surface of rectrices, anterior 

 to the black subterminal area, pale brownish gray; bill grayish or yel- 

 lowish gray, darker toward culmen, paler on mandible; bare orbital 

 skin vermilion red; iris brown; legs and feet bluish horn color (in 

 Ufe). 



Young. — Essentially like adults but rectrices wanting both the 

 wliite tip and subterminal black area, the outer ones, however, with a 

 very narrow and indistinct paler tip. 



Adult 7yiaZe.— Length (skins), 423-461 (448); wing, 149-167.5 

 (155.4); tail, 246-265 (256.9); exposed culmen, 48.5-53 (51.7); 

 tarsus, 39-42 (40.1); outer anterior toe, 23-25 (24.3).« 



Adult female.— LQWgilx (sldns), 440-500 (472); wing, 154.5-164 

 (159.3); tail, 250-280 (268.3); exposed culmen, 50-57.5 (55.2); 

 tarsus, 39-44 (41.7); outer anterior toe, 24-28 (26).^ 



Bahamas (New Providence and Eleuthera islands). 



Saurothera vetula (not Cuculus vetula Linnaeus) Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., 

 vii, 1859, 106 (New Providence I., Bahamas). — Albrecht, Journ. fiir Orn., 

 1861,51. 



Saurothera bahamensis Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., ix, 1864, 280 (New Provi- 

 dence Island, Bahamas). — Cory, Birds Baham-a Is., 1880, 116, jilate (New 

 Providence); Auk, iii, 1886, 364; \'iii, 1891, 294 (New Proviaence), 351 

 (Eleuthera 1.); Birds West Ind., 1889, 159; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 11, 

 102, 127, 142, part (New Providence and Eleuthera islands). — Shelley, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., xix, 1891, 371.— Ridgway, Auk, viii, 1891, 336 (New Provi- 

 dence). — Miller (G. S.), Auk, xi, 1894, 164, 165 (crit.; measurements). — 

 BoNHOTE, Ibis, 1899, 515 (New Providence; habits); 1903, 293 (New Provi- 

 dence; habits). — Bangs, Auk, xvii, 1900, 288 (Nassau, New Providence; 

 descr. young). — Riley, Auk, xxii, 1905, 355 (New Providence; notes, etc.). 



[Saurothera] bahamensis Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885, 18; revised ed., 1890, 

 18.— Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 109. 



Saurothera bahamensis bahamensis Todd, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vii, Oct., 1911, 419 

 (New Providence; crit.; fresh colors of unfeathered parts; measurements). — 

 WoRTHiNGTON, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vii, 1911, 453 (New Pro\ddence; habits). 



^ Nine specimens. 



*» Eleven specimens. 



An adult (sex undetermined) from Eleuthera (the only one seen from that island) 

 measures as follows: Wing, 147.5; tail, 282; exposed culmen, 54; tarsus, 41; outer 

 anterior toe, 24.5. 



