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Abbott collected specimens at Jeremie and Riviere Bar, in addition 

 to those already mentioned. Poole and Perrygo secured this bird 

 at L'Atalaye, St. Michel, St. Raphael, Dondon, Pont Sonde, and 

 Cerca-la-Source. 



Stresemann 81 wrote that the earliest name applicable to this species 

 is Cuculus longirostris of Hermann, published in 1783, which ante- 

 dates the name dominicensis of Lafresnaye (1847) long in current 

 use. On investigation it appears that longirostris of Hermann is 

 based on the Tacco of Montbeillard in Buffon. 82 This is a composite 

 composed of a mixed account of the lizard-cuckoos of Jamaica and 

 Haiti taken from Sloane and others. The first reference is to the 

 Coucou a long bee, de la Jamai'que in Daubenton, Planch. Enl., no. 

 772, which in spite of the locality given is the species of Hispaniola. 

 The name longirostris of Hermann will, therefore, apply as Strese- 

 mann indicates to the species current as S. dominicensis (Lafresnaye), 

 with Hispaniola as the type locality. 



In a considerable series of these birds there is slight variation in 

 depth of color of the upper surface and in extent and depth of shade 

 in the cinnamon of throat and abdomen but this appears individual, 

 as birds from the high mountains and coastal plain and from arid 

 and humid sections appear similar. The skins obtained by Abbott 

 on Tortue island do not differ from those of Hispaniola proper. 



In the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences there is an 

 immature male not fully grown with wing quills still in process of 

 development that was taken by James Bond at Port-au-Prince 

 December 26, 1927. In general color this is like the adult but has a 

 faint wash of brown above, and the webs of the two central tail 

 feathers distinctly brownish. The buff of the throat is well indi- 

 cated but is faintly paler than in the adult while the chin is nearly 

 white. The rectrices have a fairly distinct spot of chamois at the 

 extreme tip and a wash of the same color on the proximal portion of 

 the usual white marking. The outermost pair lacks the customary 

 white tip of the adult, the dark coloration of the main part of the 

 feather fading gradually into a terminal mark of dull chamois. The 

 buff throat is so distinctly more evident than the faint wash of that 

 color found in the form of lizard-cuckoo peculiar to Gonave Island 

 as to suggest a wider separation than has been supposed for that form. 

 Following are measurements of birds from Hispaniola, including 

 Tortue Island: 



Fourteen males, wing 129.7-138.0 (134.3), tail 184.0-227.0 (205.5), 

 culmen from base 46.0-53.6 (50.7), tarsus 33.4-37.5 (35.5) mm. 



81 Nov. Zool., vol. 27, 1920, p. 330. 

 " Hist. Nat. Ois., vol. 6, 1770, p. 402. 



