56 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Ooceygus pluvialis Schlegel, Mua. Pays-Baa, i, no. 25 (Ouculi), 1864, 39. 



[Hyetornis] pluvianus Gray, Hand-hat, ii, 1870, 212, no. 8939. 



Piaya dnnamomeiventris Lafresnaye, Rev. Zool., ix, Sept. (=Nov.), 1846, 321 



(Jamaica; coll. Lafreanaye); 1847, 80.— Des Mubs, Icon. Orn., livr. 11, 1848, 



pi. 65. 

 Coccyzus jamaicensis Hartlatjb, Verz. Mua. Brem., Nachtr., 1846, 16 (ex Cuculus 



jamaicensis Brisaon). 



HYETORNIS RUFIGULARIS (Wtirttemberg). 



HAITIAN HYETORNIS. 



Adults (sexes alike) . — Above, including sides of head and neck, and 

 sides of chest, plain olivaceous gray (between neutral gray and deep 

 mouse gray), the wing-coverts, proximal secondaries, and proximal 

 two-thirds (more or less) of middle rectrices similar but faintly 

 glossed, especially on the latter, with bronze-greenish; primaries 

 deep chestnut or bay, their distal portion similar in color to back, etc., 

 but darker; secondaries with proximal portion largely chestnut or 

 bay, but this concealed in closed wing, by broad grayish edges to 

 feathers; distal third (approximately) of middle pair of rectrices and 

 greater part of remaining rectrices blue-black faintly glossed with 

 violet-blue, all the rectrices abruptly tipped with white, the white 

 tip about 8 mm. wide on middle pair and increasing to about 20-22 

 mm. on outer pair; chin, throat, median portion of chest, breast, 

 and upper abdomen uniform chestnut or bay; abdomen (except 

 extreme upper portion), flanks, and thighs light ochraceous-tawny 

 (deeper next to chestnut of breast), fading into pale buff or buffy 

 white on longer under tail-coverts; under wing-coverts and axillars 

 clear tawny-ochraceous; under surface "of remiges cinnamon-rufous 

 (paler proximally), the distal portion, abruptly, grayish brown; 

 maxilla black, mandible paler with middle lower portion yellowish; 

 legs and feet dusky horn color (in dried skins) . 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 410-433 (421); wing, 162.5-170 

 (166.2); tail, 250-263 (256.5); exposed culmen, 36-37 (36.5) ; tarsus, 

 38.5-39 (38.7); outer anterior toe, 25.5-26 (25.7).° 



Adult female. — Length (skin), 431; wing, 174.5; tail, 253; exposed 

 culmen, 40.5; tarsus, 42.5; outer anterior toe, 28.5. 6 



Island of Haiti (Maniel, Honduras, and between Miranda and 

 LaVega, Santo Domingo). 



Coccyzus rufigularis Wurttemberg, Naumannia, 1852, heft ii, p. 55 (Santo 



Domingo). 

 [Piaya] rufigularis Bonaparte, Ateneo Italiano, ii, 1854, 121 (Consp. Volucr. 



Zygod., 1854, 6). 

 n\yetornis] rufigularis Oabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, Heft 1, 1863, 80, 



footnote (diagnosia). 

 Hyetornis pluvialis rufigularis Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mua., iv, Nov. 25, 1881, 



194. 



a Two specimens. 6 One specimen. 



