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slightly more grayish (nearly light drab-gray) color on upper breast, 
with narrow but distinct shaft-streaks of dusky, these crowded 
beneath eyes so as to form an indistinct dusky suborbital area; 
chin, throat, lower breast, sides, flanks, abdomen, and anal region 
immaculate pale pinkish buff, deepening into deep pinkish buff on 
under tail-coverts; axillars and under wing-coverts immaculate 
buffy white; inner webs of primaries (except distal portion) largely 
buffy white, this occupying much the greater part of inner web on 
outermost quill; bill black, the basal half, or more, of mandible paler 
(greenish in life); iris yellow; legs and feet dusky (in dried skins), 
greenish yellow in life; wing, 205-216 (210); tail, 104-106 (104.3); 
exposed culmen, 40.5-44 (42.2); tarsus, 90.5-94.5 (92.3); middle toe, 
35.5-36 (35.8).¢ 
Island of Haiti, Greater Antilles (Las Vegas and Almacén, Santo 
Domingo). 
Gidicnemus dominicensis Cory, Journ. Boston Zool. Soc., ii, Oct., 1883, 46 (La 
Vega, Santo Domingo; coll. C. B. Cory—type now in coll. Field Mus. Nat. 
Hist.); Auk, i, 1884, 4 (reprint of orig. descr.); iv, 1887, 226 (redescribed); 
Birds Haiti and San Dom., 1885, 140, pl. [19]; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 
9, 95, 181.—Tuompson, Auk, ii, 1885, 110 (voice).—Suarre, Cat. Birds 
Brit. Mus., xxiv, 1896, 14 (descr.; crit.).—-CHERRIE, Contr. Orn. San Dom., 
1896, 25.—Curisty, Ibis, 1897, 337 (Almacen, Santo Domingo; habits; 
voice).—VERRILL (A. E. and A. H.), Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1909, 
356 (habits). 
[Gdicnemus] dominicensis Cory, List Birds West Ind., revised ed., 1886, 25.— 
Forses and Rosinsovn, Bull. Liverp. Mus., ii, 1899, 59.—Suarpe, Hand-list, 
i, 1899, 172. 
O edicnemus dominicensis RetcHENow and Scuatow, Journ. fiir Orn., 1885, 454 
(reprint of orig. descr.). 
Gdicnemus bistriatus dominicensis SrzBoHM, Geogr. Distr. Charadriide, 1887, 
pp. xv, 86. 
Superfamily CHARADRII. 
==Charadriide SctaTeR and Satvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, viii, 142.—SHaRPrE, 
Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiv, 1896, ix, 90; Hand-list, i, 1899, xv, 146.—Gapow, 
Classif. Vertebr., 1898, 35.—Satvin and Gopman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, 
iii, 1903, 344.—KNowtron, Birds of the World, 1909, 49, 351. 
<(Charadriide StrsneGER, Standard Nat. Hist., iv, 1885, 98, in text (Charadriide 
+Aphrizide+ Arenariide+Hematopodide). 
=Charadrii Suarrg, Review Rec. At. Classif. Birds, 1891, 93; Hand-list, i, 
1899, xv, 146. 
<Scolopacide Scuater and Satvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, viii, 144 (Scolopacide 
-+Phalaropodidee+ Recurvirostride).—StrsnecER, Standard Nat. Hist., iv, 
1885, 105, in text (Scolopacide-+Phalaropodide-+ Recurvirostride). 
<>Scolopacidae Carus, Handb. Zool., i, 1868, 334 (Scolopacidee+ Phalaropodidee 
+Recurvirostride+Dromadide). 
=Limicolae Furprincer, Unters. Morph. Syst. Vég., ii, 1888, 1220. 
=Scolopacinae Nitzscu, Meckel’s Deutsches Archiv Phys., —, 1820, 259. 
>Charadride Bonararts, Saggio distr. Anim. Vertebr., 1831, 56 (includes Otides, 
(dicnemi and Glareolz). 
