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Advlt female.—Length (skins), 199.7-209.6 (205); wing, 90.2-93.5 

 (91.7); tail, 79.8-86.4 (83.1); culmen, from base, 24.4-25.1 (24.6); 

 depth of bill at base (one specimen), 8.1; tarsus, 23.1-23.4; middle toe, 

 18-19.1 (18.5).' 



Island of Porto Rico, Greater Antilles. 



Icterus dominicenm (not Oriolus dominicensis Linnasus) Taylob, Ibis, 1864, 167 



(Porto Rico). 

 Icterus dominicensis var. portoricensis Bey ant, Proc. Best. Sog. N. H., x, 1866, 254 



(Porto Rico) .— SuNDEVALL, Ofv. k. Vet.-Ak. Forh. Stockh., 1869, 597.— 



Baied, Bee wee, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 182, footnote. 

 Pendulinus portoricensis Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1867, 58 (monogr.). 

 Icterus portoricensis ScLATER, Ibis, 1883, 361 (monogr.); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus.,xi, 



1886, 371 (n. side Porto Rico).— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 217 (synonymy and 



diagnosis); Birds W. I., 1889, 104 (do.); Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 15,110,132 



(Porto Rico). 

 llcterus] portoricensis Sclatee and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 36.— Coey, 



List Birds W- I., 1885, 13. 

 Xanlhomus portoricensii Gundlach, Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat., vii, 1878, 210 



(Porto Rico) . 



ICTERUS DOMINICENSIS (Linnjeus). 

 HAITIAIT ORIOLE. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Similar to I. hypomelas, but upper and under 

 tail-coverts wholly yellow and flanks more or less yellow; bill longer 

 and more slender. 



Young (first plumage). — Head and neck brown, becoming grayer 

 on chin and throat; back and scapulars more grayish (broccoli) brown; 

 lower rump light dull buffy yellowish, gradually shading into color of 

 back; lesser and middle wing-coverts light yellow, the former tinged 

 with brownish; greater coverts dusky, broadly edged with pale yel- 

 low; rest of wings grayish dusky with pale edgings, these neai-ly white 

 on terminal portion of longer primaries; tail olive with lighter, more 

 yellowish olive, edgings; under parts canary yellow posteriorly, shading 

 into wood brownish on breast, etc. 



Adult maZe.— Length (skins), 185.4-207 (196.3); wing, 91.4-99.1 

 (96.8); tail, 82-90.9 (87.6); culmen, from base, 21.8-24.4 (23.1); depth 

 of bill at base, 7.6-8.4 (7. 9); tarsus, 23.4-24.9 (24.1); middle toe, 15.7- 

 19.3 (17.8).^ 



Adidt fe?nale. — Length (skin), 194.3; wing, 91.9; tail, 84.1; culmen, 

 from base, 22.1; tarsus, 24.1; middle toe, 18.3.^ 



Island of Haiti, Greater Antilles. 

 [Oriolus'] dominicensis Linmus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 163 (based on Carouge 

 de St. Domingue Daubenton, PL Enl., pi. 5, fig. 2).— Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 

 pt. i, 1788, 391.— Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 182. 



' Two specimens. 



^ Five specimens, three of them not sexed, but probably males. 



' One specimen. 



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