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fig., part (Mexico, southwards).—ZeLepon, Anal. Mus. Nac. C. R., i, 1888, 
129 (Costa Rica).—Suarrz, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiv, 1896, 12, part 
(Misantla, Vera Cruz; ‘‘Torula” ie. Tonala, Chiapas; Huamuchal and San 
Geronimo, Guatemala).—Satvin and Gopman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, iii, 
1903, 339, part (Misantla, Vera Cruz; Tapana, Oaxaca;. Tonala, Chiapas; 
Huamuchal and San Geronimo, Guatemala; Honduras; Sucuya and San 
Juan del Norte, Nicaragua; San José, Costa Rica; Panama ? 2).—CARRIKER, 
Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 424 (Costa Rica). 
Oedicnemus bistriatus Frantzqus, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 378 (Costa Rica). 
Gidicnemis bistriatus Nutrina, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., vi, 1884, 389 (Sucuya, 
Nicaragua; habits). 
Gidicnemus ? Taytor, Ibis, 1860, 314 (La Brea, Nacaome, and plain of 
Comayagua, Honduras; fresh colors of unfeathered parts). 
CEDICNEMUS DOMINICENSIS Cory. 
HAITIAN THICK-ENEE. 
Similar to @. bistriatus but much smaller, bill and legs much more 
slender, and under parts distinctly buffy. 
Adult female.-—Crown, occiput, and nape streaked medially with 
blackish and pale grayish buffy brown, passing into uniform dull 
black laterally, this producing two conspicuous stripes, extending 
from above, or slightly anterior to, eyes to hindneck; immediately 
beneath this blackish stripe a broad one of pale brownish buff, 
extending from lores and sides of forehead over eyes and auricular 
region to beyond end of the latter; hindneck light buffy grayish 
brown with narrow dusky shaft-streaks; back and scapulars deep 
grayish brown (nearly hair brown), the feathers edged or margined, 
rather broadly, with pale brownish buffy and with narrow shaft- 
streaks of black; wing-coverts pale brownish gray, broadly mar- 
gined with pale buffy and with distinct shaft-streaks of black; pri- 
mary coverts and remiges (except tertials) dusky, the second to 
fourth primaries, inclusive (from inside), with basal portion of outer 
web abruptly immaculate white; rump similar in color to wing- 
coverts but darker; upper tail-coverts similar to rump but mesial 
dusky streaks broader and with indistinct paler or more buffy sub- 
terminal spots or broad, interrupted bars; middle rectrices brownish 
gray or grayish brown, broadly tipped with dull black and crossed by a 
subterminal band of light brownish buffy, this preceded by a more 
or less distinct irregular bar of dusky; outermost rectrices buffy or 
brownish white, broadly and abruptly tipped with black (more exten- 
sively on outer web), the white portion with rather distinct irregular 
bars of dusky (on both webs)—the intermediate rectrices intermediate 
in coloration between the middle and outermost pairs; sides of head 
and neck, foreneck, and chest pale brownish buffy, passing into a 
a Panamé specimens (which I have not seen) may be referable to the South 
American form. 
5 Males not seen. 
