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fig., part (Mexico, southwards). — Zeledon, Anal. Mus. Nac. C. R., i, 1888, 

 129 (Costa Rica).— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiv, 1896, 12, part 

 (Misantla, Vera Cruz; "Torula" ie. Tonala, Chiapas; Huamuchal and San 

 Geronimo, Guatemala). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, iii, 

 1903, 339, part (Misantla, Vera Cruz; Tapana, Oaxaca; Tonala, Chiapas; 

 Huamuchal and San Geronimo, Guatemala; Honduras; Sucuya and San 

 Juan del Norte, Nicaragua; San Jose, Costa Rica; Panama ? a). — Carriker, 

 Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 424 (Costa Rica). 



Oedknemus bistriatus Frantzius, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 378 (Costa Rica). 



(Edicnemis bistriatus Nutting, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1884, 389 (Sucuya, 

 Nicaragua; habits). 



(Edicnemus ? Taylor, Ibis, 1860, 314 (La Brea, Nacaome, and plain of 



Comayagua, Honduras; fresh colors of unfeathered parts). 



(EDICNEMUS DOMINICENSIS Cory. 



HAITIAN THICK-KNEE. 



Similar to CE. listriatus but much smaller, bill and legs much more 

 slender, and under parts distinctly buffy. 



Adult female J' — Crown, occiput, and nape streaked medially with 

 blacldsh and pale grayish buffy brown, passing into uniform dull 

 black laterally, this producing two conspicuous stripes, extending 

 from above, or shghtly anterior to, eyes to hindneck; immediately 

 beneath this blackish stripe a broad one of pale brownish l)uff, 

 extending from lores and sides of forehead over eyes and auricular 

 region to beyond end of the latter; hindneck hght buffy grayish 

 brown with narrow dusky shaft-streaks; back and scapulars deep 

 grayish brown (nearly hair brown), the feathers edged or margined, 

 rather broadly, \nth pale brownish buffy and with narrow shaft- 

 streaks of black; wing-coverts pale brownish gray, broadly mar- 

 gined with pale buffy and with distinct shaft-streaks of black; pri- 

 mary coverts and remiges (except tertials) dusky, the second to 

 fourth primaries, inclusive (from inside), with basal portion of outer 

 web abruptly immaculate white; rump similar in color to wing- 

 coverts but darker; upper tail-coverts similar to rump but mesial 

 dusky streaks broader and with indistinct paler or more buffy sub- 

 terminal spots or broacl, interrupted bars; middle rectrices brownish 

 gray or grayish brown, broadly tipped with dull black and crossed by a 

 subterminal band of light brownish buffy, tliis preceded by a more 

 or less distinct irregular bar of dusky; outermost rectrices buffy or 

 brownish white, broadly and abruptly tipped with black (more exten- 

 sively on outer web), the white portion with rather distinct irregular 

 bars of dusky (on both webs) — the intermediate rectrices intermediate 

 in coloration between the middle and outermost pail's; sides of head 

 and neck, foreneck, and chest pale brownish buffy, passing into a 



" Panamd. sjiecimens (which I have not seen) may be referable to the South 

 American form, 

 b Males not seen. 



