14 (EDICNEMID-E. 



i, k. $ 2 a( i- sk. Aunai, British Guiana, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



March, May {H. Whitely). 



1. Ad. sk. British Guiana. Old Coll. 



m. Ad. sk. Forte de Rio Branco, Bra- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



zil (J. Natterer). 



n. Ad. sk. [South America.] Salvin-Godman Coll. 



5. (Edicnemus dominicensis. 



ffidicnemus dominicensis, Cory, Journ. Host. Zool. Soc. ii. p. 46 

 (1883 : San Domingo) ; id. Auk, i. p. 4 (1884) ; id, B. S. Domingo, 

 p. 140, pi. 19 (1884) ; F. J. Thompson, Auk, ii. p. 110 (1885) ; 

 Cory, List B. W. Ind. p. 25 (1886 : S. Domingo) ; id. B. West 

 Ind. p. 225 (1889) ; id. Cat. B. West Ind. p. 95 (1892). 



" Male. Top of the head, back, wing-coverts, and tail brown ; 

 feathers with very pale edgings, giving a mottled appearance to the 

 back, the tail-feathers showing a band of dull white, succeeded by 

 a broad black tip ; breast slaty, becoming dull white on the throat ; 

 abdomen white tinged with very pale rufous ; a line of black passing 

 from the top of the eye, along the sides of the head, to the neck ; 

 under surface of wings white, becoming dark brown at the tips ; 

 the shafts of the feathers on the breast and throat dark brown, 

 forming numerous hair-like lines on the surface of the plumage : " legs 

 and feet greenish yellow ; upper mandible black, under mandible 

 green at the base, shading into black at the tip" {Cory). Total 

 length 14-50 inches, wing 8 - 50, tail 3*75, tarsus 3*75, bill 1*50. 



The sexes appear to be similar. 



The single specimen in the British Museum was obtained by Salle 

 in San Domingo forty years ago, and is moulting, so that it is not 

 in good plumage for comparison. The only distinction that I can 

 see is the smaller bill and the somewhat stronger shaft-lines on the 

 chest-feathers. In both these characters it is approached by a 

 specimen from British Guiana, and I strongly doubt the distinctness 

 of the San Domingo bird. 



Hah. San Domingo. 



a. Ad. sk. San Domingo. A. Sall6 |"C.]. 



6. (Edicnemus superciliaris. 



GMicnemus superciliaris, Tschudi, Arch. f. Nat. 1843, pt. i. p. 387 

 (coast of Peru) ; id. ty Cab. Faun. Peruan., Aves, pp. 49, 293 

 (1845-46) ; Scl. $ Salv. Ex. Orn. p. 59, pi. 30 (1867) ; iid. P. Z. S. 

 1868, pp. 176, 570 (W. Peru) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 10, no. 9946 

 (1871) ; Scl. $ Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 142 (1873) ; Taczan. 

 Orn. Perou, iii. p. 333 (1886: coast of Peru from Lima to 

 Tumhez). 



Adult male. Similar to (E. bistriatus, and having a broad black 

 patch on the sides of the hinder crown, but distinguished from that 

 species by being ashy grey above, vermiculated with dusky cross 



