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Cory oh tin Hints of the West Indies. 



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of under surface, sides, and under tail-coverts chestnul brown, the 

 feathers dotted with white; bill black. 



Female. Top of the head and crest brown ; throat and super- 

 ciliary stripe dark gray, tinged with pale brown; Hank marking 

 paler than in the male; general plumage somewhat paler than in 

 the male, and the black patches somewhat heavier. 



Length, 7.50; win-, 4.30; tail. 2.55; tarsus, [.30; hill. .54. 

 1 1 \ 1; 1 1 \ r. St. Thomas. 



In [860 Professor Newton mentions this species as occurring in 

 St. Thomas. The bird undoubtedly still exists in Ihe Island ol 

 .St. Thomas. I have lately seen a specimen in the collection ol 

 Mr. Geo. N. Lawrence, from that Island. It was probably in- 

 troduced from South America. 



Cassin writes (I.e.), "Mr. Swift has had the kindness to inform 

 me that this species was introduced into the Island ol St. Thomas 

 some years since, from Venezuela, and that it has now become ol 

 frequent occurrence, quite naturalized, and rearing young freely 

 throughout the Island. The present specimens are exactly the 

 species figured by Mr. Gould under this name, and identical 

 with specimens in Acad. Mus. labelled 'Venezuela' and 'Cu- 

 mana.' " 



Fam.lv CEDICNEMID^E. 



Genus CEdicnemus Tk.mm. 

 CEdicnemus Temminck, Man. d'Orn. 1815. 



CEdicnemus dominicensis Cory. 



CEdicnemus dominicensis Cory, Journ. Bost. Zool. Soc. II, p. 46 (1883); 

 ib. Auk, 1. ]>. 4 (18S4) ; ib. Bds. Haiti ami San Domingo, p. 140 

 (1885); ib. List Bds. W. 1. p. 25 (1885).— Thompson, Auk, II, p. 



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Si'. Char. 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, form- 





