^62 Cory 07i the Birds of the West Indies. [J"'y 



—Allen, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, V, p. 169 (1S80).— Lister, Ibis, 

 1S80, p. 41.— Cory, Bds Bahama I. p. iiS(iS8o); ib. Bull. Nutt. 

 Orn. Club. VI, p. 154 (18S1) ; ib. Bds. Haiti & San Domingo, p. 100 

 (18S5); ib. List Bds. W. I. p. 18 (18S5).— RiDGw. Pr. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus. VII. p. 17J (1SS4). 



Crotofhaga w/^/(;/- Le.ss. Tr. Orn. p. 130(1831). 



Crotophagu hevirostrisP Bry,\nt, Pr. Best. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 105 

 (iS;9). 



Croiophaga r//gi>(>strisC\J^ijL. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 296(1866). 



Sp. Char. AL.lc: — Upper mandible much curved ; culmen rising above 

 the head, llattened to a sharp edge; nostrils situated in the middle 

 of the lov ?r half of the upper mandible; general color black, show- 

 it ing bluish ic;lections ; the feathers of the head, neck, breast, and 

 upper part of the back with metallic bronze borders; iris brown. 

 The sexes are similar. 



Length, 12.25; wing, 6.20; tail, 7.50; tarsus, 1.50; bill, i.io. 

 Habitat. West Indies. 



Genus Saurothera Vieill. 



Sanrothera ViEiLLOT, "Analyse, p. 36, 1S16." 



Saurothera vetula (Linn.). 



Cuculiis vet Ilia Linn. Sjst. Nat. I, p. 169 (1766). 



Saurothera jamaice7isis Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1847, p. 354. 



Saurothera vetula Go%?iK.,V>d^^.]^\x\. p. 273 (1S47). — Bp. Consp. I, p. 96 

 (1850). — Albrecht, J. f. O. 1862, 202. — ScL. Cat. Am. Bds. p. 323 

 (1S62).— March, Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1S63, p. 283.— Gray, 

 Handl. Bds. II, p. 208 (1870). — Scl. & Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. 

 p. 107 (1S73). — A. & E. Newton, Handb. Jamaica, p. 109 (iSSi). — 

 Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 18 (1885). 



Coccygiis vetula Schleg. Mus. Pajs-Bas, I, p. 39 (1864). 



.Sp. Char. — Top of head, including the eye, dark olive brown; lighter 

 brown on the nape ; rest of back and wings light gray ; throat white ; 

 breast and belly tinged with pale rufous; under surface of wings 

 chestnut rufous ; primaries chestnut rufous, tipped with pale olive; 

 tail feathers, except central ones, bluish black, tipped with white. 

 The sexes are similar. 



Length, 14.50; wing, 5; tail, 7.50; tarsus, i; bill, 1.50. 

 Habitat. Jamaica. 



Saurothera dominicensis Lafr. 



Saurothera dominicensis Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1847, P- 355- — Salle, P. Z. S. 

 1857, p. 234.— Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. XI, p. 95 (iS66). — 



