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HiEMATOPUS PALLIATUS PRATTII (Maynard). 



BAHAMA OYSTER-CATCHER. 



Similar in ('oloratioii to //. p. palliaius but larger, and bill much 

 stouter, 



Advlt male.—Wmg, 241-270 (257); tail, 100-108 (103.5); culmcn, 

 82-89 (85.3); groatost depth of bill, 14-14.5 (14.3); tarsus, 56.5-59 

 (57.5); middle toe, 43-44 (43.3).« 



Adult female.— Wing, 244-274 (261.4); tail, 102-112 (105.2); cul- 

 men, 88-104 (94.4); greatest depth of bill, 13.5-14.5 (14); tarsus, 

 58.5-60.5 (59.5); middle too, 40-42.5 (41.7).^ 



Bahama Islands (Flcmmings Cay; Exuma Cay; Long Island; 

 Abaro, North Andros, Inagua, Caicos, and Maragauna islands). 



Haematopus praUii Maynaud, App. to Cat. Birds West Ind., Nov. 29, 1899, 34 

 (Flemmings Key, Bahamas; coll. C. J. Maynard). 



IJsematopus prallii Bangs, Auk, xvii, 1900, 284 (Flemmings Key; crit.). 



Hxmatopus palliaius (not of Temminck) Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N.H., vii, 

 1859, 121 (Bahamas). — Albrecht, Journ. fur Orn., 18G1, 55 (Bahamas). — 

 Cory, Birds Bahama Is., 1880, 150 (Andros and Inagua islands, Bahamas, 

 resident); Auk, iv, 1887, 230, part (Bahamas); Birds West Ind., 1889, 230, 

 part (Bahamas); Auk, viii, 1891, 297 (Caicos Islands, Bahamas), 334 (Abaco 

 Island), 351 (Inagua); ix, 1892, 48 (Maragauna); Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 

 95, part (Bahamas). — Northrop, Auk, viii, 1891, 76 (Andros Island). — 

 RiDGWAY, Auk, viii, 1891, 334 (Abaco Island).— Bonhote, Ibis, 1903, 301 

 (Andros Island; crit.). — Riley, Auk, xxii, 1905, 354 (Long Island, Bahamas, 

 July). 



[Haemotopus] palliaius Cory, List Birds West Ind., revised ed., 1886, 25, part 

 (Bahamas). 



H^MATOPUS PALLIATUS FRAZARI (Brewster). 



FRAZAR'S OYSTER-CATCHER. 



Similar to //, p. palliatus but averaging mueh darker (back, etc., 

 gi-ayish olive-brown or light clove brown to dark clove brown); 

 chest usually conspicuously spotted or blotched with blackish, some- 

 times even whole breast, sides, flanks and under tail-covorts heavily 

 blotched with blackish ; upper tail-coverts with white more restricted, 

 the longer one usually blotched with blackish; white on wing-coverts 

 more restricted (confined to distal half, approximately, and edges of 

 proximal portion of greater coverts), coverts on carpo-metacarpal 

 region of under side of wing heavily blotched with dusky (often 

 mostly of this color); wing and tail averaging longer, bill and feet 

 averaging smaller. 



o Three specimens. ^ Five epecimens. 



