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[Cuculus] vetula Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 111 (Jamaica; based on 

 Cueulus rostro longiore et magis recto Sloane, Jamaica, ii, 313; etc.); ed. 12, 

 i, 1766, 169.— Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt.-i, 1788, 410.— Latham, Index Orn., 

 i, 1790, 218. 



Cuculus vetula Temminck, Cat. Syst., 1807, 57. 



Sauroihera vetula Vieillot, Nouv. Diet, d' Hist. Nat., xxxii, 1819, 348, part 

 (Jamaica).— Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., xiv, pt. i, 1826, 216.— Gosse, 

 Birds Jamaica, 1847, 273; Illustr. Birds Jam., 1849, pi. 74.— Sclater, Cat. 

 Am. Birds, 1862, 323; Revised List Birds Jam., 1910, 11.— Albrecht, Journ. 

 fur Orn., 1862, 202.— March, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 283.— Cory, Auk, 

 iii, 1886, 362; Birds West Ind„ 1889, 157; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 11, 102, 

 130. — Shelley, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xix. 1891, 370 (Moneague and Spanish- 

 town, Jamaica). — Scott, Auk, ix, 1892, 273, 371 (habits). — Field, Auk, xi, 

 1894, 124 (Port Henderson, Jamaica). 



S[aurothera] vetula Gray, Gen. Birds, iii, App., 1849, 22. — Cabanis and Heine, 

 Mus. Hein., iv, Heft i, 1863, 90.— Newton (A. & E.), Handb. Jamaica, 

 1881, 109. 



[Saurotkera] vetula Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 96. — Gray, Hand-list, ii, 

 1870, 208, no. 8896.— Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 107.— 

 Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885, 18.— Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 169. 



Coccygus vetula Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, i, no. 25 (Cuculi), 1864, 39. 



Sauroihera jamaicensis Lapresnaye, Rev. Zool., x, 1847, 354 (Jamaica). 



SAUROTHERA DOMINICENSIS Lafresnaye. 



HAITIAN LIZARD-CUCKOO. 



Most like S. vieiUoti, but upper parts nearly pure olive-gray, outer 

 webs of primaries bright cinnamon-rufous, and chin and throat buff, 

 more or less strongly contrasted with pale gray of adjacent parts. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Above plain, soft smoke gray, the pileum 

 slightly darker and more brownish (between mouse gray and hair 

 brown), the middle pair of rectrices with terminal portion extensively 

 (for about 25-35 mm.) slightly glossy blue-black, narrowly margined 

 at tip (except in worn plumage) with brownish gray or whitish, the 

 secondaries and middle rectrices faintly glossed with bronze-greenish; 

 primaries (both webs) clear, deep cinnamon-rufous broadly tipped 

 with grayish brown or grayish olive, faintly glossed with bronze- 

 greenish; second (next to middle) pair of rectrices with the subter- 

 minal bluish black area much larger (about 60-70, mm. long on outer 

 web), tipped with white (for about 5-7 mm.), the olive-grayish of 

 basal portion slightly darker; third pair similar but with the white 

 tip much wider (about 15 mm.) and with nearly half the remaining 

 portion bluish black; fourth pair with the white tip and subterminal 

 bluish black area much larger (the former 18-20 mm. wide, the latter 

 occupying about half the remaining portion); fifth pair with the 

 white tip about 18-20 mm. wide, the bluish black subterminal area 

 about 30-50 mm. in extent; auricular region, sides of neck, foreneck, 

 chest, and upper breast plain pale smoke gray; chin, throat, and 



