62 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



SAUROTHERA VIEILLOTI Bonaparte. 



PORTO E.ICAN LIZARD-CUCKOO. 



Similar in size and general appearance to 8. vetula but general color 

 of upper parts much browner, with pileum and hindneck nearly con- 

 color with back, etc. ; outer webs of primaries brown or grayish brown 

 instead of cinnamon-rufous; pale gray of throat extending over 

 chest; remaining under parts ochraceous or tawny-ochraceous 

 instead of buff, and rectrices mostly grayish with much smaller white 

 tip preceded by a relatively narrow area of black. 



Adults (sexes alike) . — Above plain grayish brown (nearest broccoli 

 brown or drab), more decidedly brown on pileum and hindneck, more 

 olivaceous on secondaries and tail, which are faintly glossed with 

 bronze-greenish; outer webs of primaries brown or grayish brown, 

 the inner webs with more than proximal half cinnamon-rufous; 

 rectrices (including middle pair) tipped with white, this preceded by a 

 subterminal area of black, both greatly increasing in extent from the 

 middle to the outermost pair; chin, throat, and chest plain, very 

 pale brownish gray or buffy gray, somewhat paler on chin and upper 

 throat; rest of under parts, including under wing-coverts, uniform 

 deep ochraceous to tawny-ochraceous or tawny. 



Young. — Similar to adults, but middle rectrices without either 

 white tip or black subterminal bar, these on remaining rectrices 

 more restricted in extent and much less sharply denned, the white 

 tips more or less tinged with brown; wing-coverts and secondaries 

 indistinctly margined or edged with dull tawny-brown. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 390-445 (421); wing, 126.5-137 

 (131.8); tail, 219-257 (239.1); exposed culmen, 42.5-47.5 (45.3); 

 tarsus, 30-37.5 (32.7); outer anterior toe, 21-24.5 (23).° 



Adult jemale.— Length (skins), 378-460 (418); wing, 126.5-136 

 (131.5); tail, 225-255 (238); exposed culmen, 40.5-48 (43.7); tarsus, 

 32-36.5 (34.6); outer anterior toe, 22-26 (23.5). 6 



Island of Porto Eico (Caguas; Mayague"z; Lares; Mameyes; Que- 

 bradillas ; Utuado ; Maricao ; Aibonito) ; Vieques Island, c near Porto 

 Kico; St. Thomas." 



Sauroihera vetula (not Cuculus vetula Linnaeus) Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., 

 xxxii, 1819, 348, part (Porto Rico); Enc. M6th., iii, 1823, 1341; Gal. Ois., i, 

 1825, 25, pi. 38.— (?) Lesson, Trait6 d'Orn., 1831, 144 ("Guiane"; "Saint- 

 Domingue"). — Lafresnaye, Rev. Zool., 1847, 357. 



Saurothera velata (typ. error) Swainson, Classif. Birds, ii, 1837, 324, fig. 2865. 



(?) Cuculus vetula Lesson, Man. d'Orn., ii, 1828, 121 ("Jamaique"; "Saint 

 Domingue")- 



S[aurothera] viellloti Bonaparte, Consp., Av., i, 1850, 97 (based on S. vetula 

 Lafresnaye Rev. Zool., 1847, 357 and Vieillot, Gal. Ois., i, 25, pi. 38).— New- 



_ o Nine specimens. 

 & Ten specimens. 

 " Specimens from Vieques and St. Thomas not seen by me. 



