?So4 I Miller, the Ground Cuckoo of Andros Island. \ 6cJ 



Adult: (Type, $ , No. 5608, collection ofG. S. Miller, Jr., Fresh Creek, 

 Andros Island, Bahamas, April 24, 1893, C J. Mavnard, collector), dorsal 

 surface, except bases of primaries and tips of lateral rectrices, olive 

 shading toward hair brown on head, everywhere, but especially on wings 

 and tail, glossed with chromium green; basal two-thirds of primaries 

 strongly tinged with cinnamon ; breast drab, becoming paler on throat, 

 darker on sides and shading quickly into tawny olive on the belly, flanks, 

 thighs and under tail-coverts; ventral surface of tail lustrous olive gray, 

 the three outer feathers with a subterminal bar of black (about 11 mm. 

 wide), widest on the outer web, and tipped with white (S mm.) the 

 middle pair unmarked and the next pair with very narrow white tips and 

 a dusky subterminal spot in each web; bill (dry) slaty black at base, 

 cutting edges, and greater part of mandible, primrose yellow, the latter 

 slightly varied with slate color; claws black; tarsi and toes blackish slate. 



As compared with Sanrothera bahamensis this species is 

 readily distinguishable by its darker colors and differently shaped 

 bill. An adult female of the former (No. 4053, collection of 

 G. S. Miller, Jr., Nassau, Jan. 27, 1SS4, C. J. Maynard) is hair 

 brown on the back and head, fading to broccoli-brown on the 

 neck, the feathers everywhere glossed with sage green. The 

 breast is drab gray, becoming slightly paler on the throat, darker 

 on the sides, and shading quickly to buff on the belly, flanks, 

 thighs, and under tail-coverts. The axillars and linings of wings 

 are ochraceous buff, paler on the carpus and deepening into clay 

 color on the inner webs of most of the primaries where the 

 colored area is less extensive than in S. andria. 



Although there are, in both species, some slight individual 

 variations in color, the differences shown by the two specimens 

 just described very fairly represent the average of the specimens 

 that I have seen. 



Saurothera bahamensis Bryant (average of five specimens) : 

 wing, 156; tail, 27S ; tarsus 40.7; bill (from nostril), 3S ; depth 

 through nostril, 12.6; ratio of depth to length, 33. S2. 



Sanrothera andria Miller (average of four specimens) : wing, 

 152; tail, 257; tarsus, 37.7; bill (from nostril), 37; depth 

 through nostril, 14.5 ; ratio of depth to length, 39.09. 



