60 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



SAUROTHERA BAHAMENSIS ANDRIA (G. S. Miller). 



ANDKOS ISLAND CTJCKOO. 



Similar to S. i. bahamensis but color of upper parts decidedly- 

 browner, outer webs of primaries more or less rufescent basally, under 

 parts more deeply colored, blackish subterminal areas of rectrices 

 narrower, and bill shorter and relatively deeper. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 411-455 (440); wing, 157.5-161 (159); 

 tail, 242-260 (253); exposed culmen, 49.5-52 (50.5); tarsus, 37-41 

 (38.8); outer anterior toe, 22.5-24.5 (23.5).° 



Adult female.— Length (skin), 450; wing, 154; tail, 247; exposed 

 culmen, 52.5; tarsus, 41.5; outer anterior toe, 25. b 



Andros Island, Bahamas. 



Saurothera bahamensis (not of Bryant) Northrop, Auk, viii, 1891, 74 (Andros I., 

 Bahamas).— Cory, Oat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 11, 102, 127, 142, part (An- 

 dros I.). 



Saurothera andria Miller (G. S.), Auk, xi, April, 1894, 164 (Fresh Creek, Andros 

 Is., Bahamas; coll. G. S. Miller, jr.). 



[Saurothera] andria Sharps, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 169. 



Saurothera bahamensis andria Todd, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vii, Oct., 1911, 419 

 (Andros I.; fresh colors, etc.). — Worthington, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vii, 

 1911, 453. 



SAUROTHERA MERLINI MERLINI D'Orbigny. 



CT/BAN LIZARD-CUCKOO. 



Adults (.sexes alike). — General color of upper parts grayish brown 

 (broccoli brown or drab), the back more or less strongly washed 

 with brown (sometimes distinctly brown) this brown wash usually 

 invading the hindneck or even the posterior portion of pileum, the 

 secondaries and tail faintly glossed with bronze-greenish, the fore- 

 head (more or less extensively) more grayish, with black shaft-streaks ; 

 primaries deep cinnamon-rufous, broadly tipped with grayish brown 

 glossed with bronze-green, the inner webs of secondaries (especially 

 the distal ones) also largely cinnamon-rufous; rectrices (except 

 middle pair) broadly tipped with white and with a still broader sub- 

 terminal area of faintly glossy black, this more extended on outer 

 web than on inner ; chin and throat varying from nearly pure white to 

 pale grayish buff, deepening into clear, very pale, slightly buffy gray 

 to light grayish buff on chest and upper breast, the sides of head and 

 neck intermediate in color between the whitish or pale buffy of 

 throat, etc., and the grayish brown of pileum; rest of under parts, 

 including under wing-coverts and under tail-coverts, deep buff to deep 

 ochraceous ; under surface of rectrices, anterior to the black subter- 

 minal area, pale brownish gray ; bill pale grayish yellow or dull yellow- 



<* Three specimens. 6 One specimen. 



