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Adult male.— Length (skins), 297-390 (330); wing, 138.5-145.5 

 (142.2); tail, 151-171 (164.9); exposed culmen, 26-32 (29.3); tarsus, 

 28-31 (29.7); outer anterior toe, 19-23 (20.7).° 



. Adult female.— Length (skins), 297-316 (308); wing, 140-145.5 

 (143.4); tail, 159-173 (165.9); exposed culmen, 28.5-32 (30.1); 

 tarsus, 30-30.5 (30.1); outer anterior toe, 20-22.5 (21.2). b 



Islands of Guadeloupe, Dominica (St. Josephs; Shawford; Koseau), 

 and Martinique, Lesser Antilles. 



Coccyms seniculus (not Cuculus seniculus Latham) Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1864, 121, part (monogr.).— Taylor, Ibis, 1864, 170 (Dominica; 

 food).— Coues, Birds Northwest, 1874, 276, footnote, part (Dominica; Guade- 

 loupe; Martinique). 



Coccyzus minor (not Ouculus minor Gmelin) Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1870, 166, part (monogr.); 1889, 326 (Dominica). — Balrd, Brewer, and Ridg- 

 wat, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 482, part. — Lawrence, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., i, 1878, 62 (Dominica; notes) ; i, 1879, 359 (Martinique), 459 (Guadeloupe; 

 habits), 487, part (Guadeloupe; Dominica; Martinique). — Cory, Auk, iii, 

 1886, 365, part; iv, 1887, 96 (Martinique); viii, 1891, 48 (Guadeloupe); 

 Birds West Ind., 1889, 160, part; Oat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 102, part (Guade- 

 loupe; Dominica; Martinique). — Verrill, Trans. Conn. Ac. Arts and Sci., 

 viii, 1892, 329 (Dominica). — Salvln and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, 

 ii, 1896, 523, part (West Indies, part). 



[Coccyzus] minor Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 108, part. — Sharpe, 

 Hand-list, ii, 1900, 163, part. 



[Coccygus] minor Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885, 19, part. 



[Coccyzus minor] Subsp. &., Coccyzus dominicx Shelley, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 six, 1891, 306 (Dominica, Lesser Antilles; coll. Brit. Mus.). 



Coccyzus minor dominicx Cory, Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 11, 102, part (Dominica). 



C[occyzus] minor dominion Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash:, xx, 1907, 53, 54, in text. 



[Coccyzus] minor subsp. dominicx Forbes and Robinson, Bull. Liverpool Mus., 

 i, no. 2, 1898, 40. 



Coccyzus dominicx Shelley, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xix, 1891, pi. 12, fig. 1. 



[Coccyzus] dominicx Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 163, part (Dominica). 



Coccyzus minor shelleyi Riley, Smithson. Misc. Coll., xlvii, Nov. 8, 1904, 285 

 (new name to replace C. dominicx Shelley considered preoccupied by Cuculus 

 dominions Linnseus). 



a Eight specimens. 



& Four specimens. 



Locality. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



Ex- 

 rosed 

 culmen 



Tarsus. 



Outer 



anterior 



toe. 



MALES. 



Four adult males from Dominica 



Three adult males from Guadeloupe . 

 One adult malefrom Martinique 



FEMALES. 



Four adult females from Dominica . . 



142.7 

 141.7 

 141 



164.9 



163 



164.9 



165.9 



30 



27.7 



29.3 



30.1 

 29.7 

 29.7 



20.4 

 20.5 

 20.7 



21.2 



