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The guinea fowl is so well known that it is necessary merely to 

 state that it is a bird the size of a domestic fowl, in color grayish 

 black profusely spotted with white, with a prominent bony crest 

 on the head. 



Order GRUIFORMES 



Suborder GRUES 



Superfamily GRUIDES 



Family ARAMIDAE 



ARAMUS PICTUS ELUCUS Peters 

 LIMPKIN, CARRAO, COLAS, GRAND COLAS, POULE-A-JOLIE, POULE BELLE 



Aramus pictus elucus Peters, Occ. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 5, Janu- 

 ary 30, 1925, p. 143 (Sosua, Dominican Republic). — Bond, Proc. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 80, 1928, p. 494 (Haiti, Gonave and Tortue). — Danforth, 

 Auk, 1929, p. 362 (Bonao, Villa Alta Gracia). — Lonnberg, Fauna och Flora, 

 1929, pp. 100-101 (Haiti). 



Ardea scolopacea, Bitter, Naturh. Reis. Westind. Insel Hayti, 1S36, p. 157 

 (listed). 



Aramus scolopaceus, Salle, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1S57, p. 236 (Dominican 

 Republic). 



Aramus scolopaceus giganteus, Cory, Bull. Nuttall Ornith. Club, 1881, p. 

 155 (Haiti, specimens). 



Aramus pictus, Cory, Birds Haiti and San Domingo, Dec, 1884, pp. 157-158 

 (Gantier, specimens). — Tippenhauer, Die Insel Haiti, 1892, p. 323 (listed). 



Aramus pictus pictus, Moltoni, Att. Soc. Ital. Scienz. Nat., 1929, p. 311 (Rio 

 Yuna, Bonao, specimens). 



Aramus giganteus, Bryant, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 11, May, 1S67, 

 p. 97 (Dominican Republic). — Tristram, Cat. Coll. Birds belonging H. B. Tris- 

 tram, 1889, p. 267 (Almercen, specimen). — Cory, Cat. West Indian Birds, 1892, 

 p. 90 (Haiti, Dominican Republic). — Verrill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadel- 

 phia, 1909, p. 356 (Dominican Republic). 



Aramus vociferus, Peters, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 61, 1917, p. 403 (Sosua, 

 specimen). 



In the Dominican Eepublic Abbott shot an adult male on the Rio 

 San Juan (or St. John), near Samana, and a series, including three 

 pairs, at Sosua (four prepared as skins and two as skeletons). In 

 the locality last named he found them very common. The latter are 

 topotypes of the present subspecies, as in describing it Peters chose 

 as his type an adult female that he had collected personally at Sosua, 

 Dominican Republic on March 22, 1916. In addition to those men- 

 tioned there is in the Academy of Natural Sciences a skin taken by 

 Abbott on Samana Bay, June 30, 1883. Verrill reported the species 

 as common throughout the savannas of the Dominican Republic 

 " but seldom seen although frequently heard." Salle records them 

 without giving localities saying that they were found in heavy, 



