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slightly more grayish (nearly light drab-gray) color on upper breast, 

 with narrow but distinct shaft-streaks of dusky, these crowded 

 beneath eyes so as to form an indistinct dusky suborbital area; 

 chin, throat, lower breast, sides, flanks, abdomen, and anal region 

 immaculate pale pinkish buff, deepening into deep pinkish buff on 

 under tail-coverts; axillars and undpr wing-coverts immaculate 

 buffy white; inner webs of primaries (except distal portion) largely 

 buffy white, this occupying much the greater- part of inner web on 

 outermost quill; bill black, the basal half, or more, of mandible paler 

 (greenish in hfe); iris yellow; legs and feet dusky (in dried skins), 

 greenish yellow in life; wing, 205-216 (210); tail, 104-106(104.3); 

 exposed culmen, 40.5-44 (42.2); tarsus, 90.5-94.5 (92.3); middle toe, 

 35.5-36 (35.8). « 



Island of Haiti, Greater Antilles (Las Vegas and Almacen, Santo 

 Domingo) . 



(Edicnemus dominkensis Cory, Journ. Boston Zool. Soc, ii, Oct., 1883, 46 (La 

 Vega, Santo Domingo; coll. C. B. Cory — type now in coll. Field Mus. Nat. 

 Hist.); Auk, i, 1884, 4 (reprint of orig. descr.); iv, 1887, 226 (redescribed) ; 

 Birds Haiti and San Dom., 1885, 140, pi. [19]; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 

 9, 95, 131.— Thompson, Auk, ii, r885, 110 (voice).— Sharpe, Cat. Birda 

 Brit. Mus., xxiv, 1896, 14 (descr.; crit.). — Cherrie, Contr. Orn. San Dom., 

 1896, 25.— Christy, Ibis, 1897, 337 (Almacen, Santo Domingo; habits; 

 voice).— Verrill (A. E. and A. H.), Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1909, 

 356 (habits). 



[CEdicnemus] dominkensis Cory, List Birds West Ind., revised ed., 1886, 25. — 

 Forbes and Robinson, Bull. Liverp. Mus., ii, 1899, 59. — Sharpe, Hand-list, 

 i, 1899, 172. 



edicnemus dominicensis Reichenow and Schalow, Journ. fiir Orn., 1885, 454 

 (reprint of orig. descr.). 



CEdicnemus histriatus dominicensis Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadriidae, 1887, 

 pp. XV, 86. 



Snperfaixiily CII-A.RA3DRII. 



= Charadnidx Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, viii, 142. — Sharpe, 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiv, 1896, ix, 90; Hand-list, i, 1899, xv, 146.— Gadow, 

 Classif. Vertebr., 1898, 35. — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, 

 iii, 1903, 344.— Knowlton, Birds of the World, 1909, 49, 351. 



<^Charadriidx Stejneger, Standard Nat. Hist., iv, 1885, 98, in text (Charadriidae 

 -f Aphrizidse-f Arenariidae-fHaematopodidEe). 



= Charadrii Sharpe, Review Rec. At. Classif. Birds, 1891, 93; Hand-list, i, 

 1899, XV, 146. 



<CScolopacidse Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av, Neotr., 1873, viii, 144 (Scolopacidse 

 +Phalaropodid8e+Recurvirostridae). — Stejneger, Standard Nat. Hist., iv, 

 1885, 105, in text (Scolopacidae-^Phalaropodid^e-^Recu^virostrid8e). 



<C>Scolopacidae Carus, Handb. Zool., i, 1868, 334 (Scolopacidae+Phalaropodidae 

 -f Recurvirostridse + Dromadidae) . 



=Limicolae FiJRBRiNGER, Unters. Morph. Syst. Vog., ii, 1888, 1220. 



=Scolopacinae Nitzsch, Meckel's Deutsches Archiv Phys., — , 1820, 259. 



"^Charadridx Bonaparte, Saggio distr. Anim. Vertebr., 1831, 56 (includes Otides, 

 (Edicnemi and Glareolae). 



o Three specimens. 



