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HYETORNIS PLUVIALIS (Gmelin). 



JAMAICAN HYETORNIS. 



Adults {sexes alike) .—Forehead and crown olivaceous slate color, 

 darkening into dull slate-black on lores and passing into oliye on 

 occiput and nape, the hindneck, back, scapulars, and rump uniform 

 olive; wings and upper tail-coverts plain olive glossed with greenish 

 bronze; tail dull black, faintly glossed with violet and broadly tipped 

 with white; chin, throat, and malar region dull buffy white, passing 

 into very pale gray on chest and into deeper gray (about no. 8) on 

 auricular region and sides of neck; rest of under parts, including 

 under wing-coverts and under tail-coverts, plain deep cinnamon- 

 rufous or rufous-chestnut; maxilla dull black, mandible pale gray 



(in life) a ; interior of mouth black ; iris brown; legs and feet bluish 

 gray " (in life) . 

 Adult male.— Length (skins), 460-500 (478); wing, 174-191 



(182.4); tail, 272-299 (283.6); exposed culmen, 34.5-38.5 (35.9); 



tarsus, 39-43.5 (41.4); outer anterior toe, 25.5-28.5 (26.8). b 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 470-532 (500); wing, 182.5-197 



(191.7); tail, 280-324 (295); exposed culmen, 37.5-43 (40); tarsus 



40.5-46 (43.7); outer anterior toe, 26-31 (29.4) ." 



Island of Jamaica (Metcalfe Parish; Spanishtown; Moneague; 



Priestmans River; St. Georges; Salt Pond). 



[Cuculus] pluvialis Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. i, 1788, 411 (based on Old Man or Rain 

 Bird Sloane, Jamaica, 312, pi. 258, fig. 1; Cuculus jamaicensis Brisson, Orn., 

 iv, 114).— Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 218. 



Cueulus pluvialis Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., ix, pt. i, 1815, 124. — Hartlaub, 

 Rev. Zool., 1847, 64— Walden, Ibis, 1869, 336. 



P[iaya] pluvialis Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1846, 457. 



Piaya pluvialis Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 277; Illustr. Birds Jam., 1849, pi. 

 74. — Des Mtjrs, Icon. Orn., livr. 11 (text to pi. 65), 1848, and table of con- 

 tents. — Sclateh, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1861, 79. — Albrecht, Journ. fur 

 Orn., 1862, 203.— March, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 283.— Pelzeln, 

 Ibis, 1873, 33. 



[Piaya] pluvialis Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 111. 



[Ptilohptis] pluvialis Bonaparte, Ateneo Italiano, ii, 1854, 121 (Consp. Volucr. 

 Zygod., 1854, 6). 



Hyetomis pluvialis Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 321; Revised List Birds Jam., 

 1910, 11— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 336; Birds West Ind., 1889, 161; Cat. West 

 Ind. Birds, 1892, 11, 102, 130.— Shelley, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xix, 1891, 

 372 (Moneague, Jamaica). — Scott, Auk, ix, 1892, 274 (crit.). 



H\yetornis] pluvialis Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, Heft i, 1863, 80. — 

 Newton (A. and E.), Handb. Jamaica, 1881, 109. 



[Hyetomis] pluvialis Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 108. — Cory, 

 List Birds West Ind., 1885, 19.— Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 169. 



Eyetomantis pluvialis Cabanis, Journ. fur Orn., 1862, 203, footnote. 



a According to Gosse. b Ten specimens. - Eight specimens. 



