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HAMATOPUS PALLIATUS PRATTII (Maynard). 
BAHAMA OYSTER-CATCHER. 
Similar in coloration to H. p. palliatus but larger, and bill much 
stouter. 
Adult male-—Wing, 241-270 (257); tail, 100-108 (103.5); culmen, 
82-89 (85.3); greatest depth of bill, 14-14.5 (14.3); tarsus, 56.5-59 
(57.5); middle toe, 43-44 (43.3).¢ 
Adult female.—Wing, 244-274 (261.4); tail, 102-112 (105.2); cul- 
men, 88-104 (94.4); greatest depth of bill, 13.5-14.5 (14); tarsus, . 
58.5-60.5 (59.5); middle toe, 40-42.5 (41.7).° 
Bahama Islands (Flemmings Cay; Exuma Cay; Long Island; 
Abaco, North Andros, Inagua, Caicos, and Maragauna islands). 
Haematopus prattitti Maynarp, App. to Cat. Birds West Ind., Nov. 29, 1899, 34 
(Flemmings Key, Bahamas; coll. C. J. Maynard). 
Hexematopus prattti Banas, Auk, xvii, 1900, 284 (Flemmings Key; crit.). 
Hematopus palliatus (not of Temminck) Bryanv, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 
1859, 121 (Bahamas).—ALBrecat, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 55 (Bahamas).— 
Cory, Birds Bahama Is., 1880, 150 (Andros and Inagua islands, Bahamas, 
resident); Auk, iv, 1887, 230, part (Bahamas); Birds West Ind., 1889, 230, 
part (Bahamas); Auk, viii, 1891, 297 (Caicos Islands, Bahamas), 334 (Abaco 
Island), 351 (Inagua); ix, 1892, 48 (Maragauna); Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 
95, part (Bahamas).—Norrurop, Auk, viii, 1891, 76 (Andros Island).— 
Ripeway, Auk, viii, 1891, 334 (Abaco Island).—Bonunorts, Ibis, 1903, 301 
(Andros Island; crit.)—Ritey, Auk, xxii, 1905, 354 (Long Island, Bahamas, 
July). 
[Haemotopus] palliatus Cory, List Birds West Ind., revised ed., 1886, 25, part 
(Bahamas). 
HAMATOPUS PALLIATUS FRAZARI (Brewster). 
FRAZAR’'S OYSTER-CATCHER, 
Similar to H. p. palliatus but averaging much darker (back, etc., 
grayish olive-brown or light clove brown to dark clove brown); 
chest usually conspicuously spotted or blotched with blackish, some- 
times even whole breast, sides, flanks and under tail-coverts heavily 
blotched with blackish; upper tail-coverts with white more restricted, 
the longer one usually blotched with blackish; white on wing-coverts 
more restricted (confined to distal half, approximately, and edges of 
proximal portion of greater coverts), coverts on carpo-metacarpal 
region of under side of wing heavily blotched with dusky (often 
mostly of this color); wing and tail averaging longer, bill and feet 
averaging smaller. 
a Three specimens. b Five specimens. 
