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Man. Oru. United States and Canada, Water Birds, 1834, 68.— Audubon, Orn. 



Biogr., iv, 1838, 543 (not pi. 3T7, which=true A. scolopaeeiis!) ; Synopsis, 



1839, 217; Birds Amer., 8vo ed., v, 1842, 181 (not pi. 312, which =A. scolopa- 



■ceua). — GossE, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 355 (Jamaica). — Bryant, Proc. Boston 



Soc. Nat. Hist., 1854, 20 (descr. trachea). 

 \Aramus] scolopacea Bonapaete, Consp. Gen. Av., il, 1857 [1854], 103, part 



(supposed young). 

 Notherodius scolopaceua CAB\Nig, Journ. fiir Orn., iv, 1856, 426 (Cuba). — Gund- 



LACH, Journ. fiir Orn., x, 1862, 89 (Cuba ; crit). 

 Notherodius holostictus Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., iv, 1856, 426 (Cuba). 

 INotherodius] scolopaeeus Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 



321, part (Cuba). 

 Aramua vociferus holostictus Millee (W. DeW.) aud Griscom, Amer. Mus. Nov., 



No. 25, 1921, 12, 13, part (Greater Antilles) .—Obeeholsbe, Auk, xl, 1923, 



678. 

 Aramns guarauna (not Scolopax guaraiina Gmelin) D'Oebiqnt, in La Sagra's 



Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois., 1839, 256 (Spanish od., p. 177). — Bbewet., Proc. Boston 



Soc. Nat. Hist., vii, 1860, 308 (Cuba). 

 A[ramus] Quarauna Lembeye, Aves Isle de Cuba, 1850, 134. 

 Notherodiiis guarnna Waglke, Isis, 1829, 657 (Cuba). 



AHAMUS SCOLOPACEUS ELUCUS Peters 



HlSPANIOI^N LiMPKIN 



Adult (sexes alike). — Similar to A^'amiis scolopaeeus pictus but 

 averaging slightly darker brown — dark raw umber to dark mummy 

 brown and dark sepia ; the white streaks smaller generally, and espe- 

 cially on the lesser upper wing coverts, where they are reduced to 

 narrow shaft stripes. 



Other plumages not known. 



Adult mcde.^Wmg 313-323 (319) ; tail 130-140 (135) ; exposed cul- 

 men 100-110 (106.2) ; tarsus 107-113 (109.5) ; middle toe without claw 

 77-81 (79.2 mm.)" 



Adult female: Wing 290-302 (295.7) ; tail 121-129 (125.3) ; exposed 

 culmen 85-101 (94.3) ; tarsus 102-108 (105) ; middle toe without claw 

 73-80 (77.3 mm. ).^^ 



Range. — Eesident in Puerto Rico (the vicinity of Haciendo Jobo; 

 Lares ; Quebradillas ; Utuado ; slopes of El Yunque ; between Adjuntas 

 and Maricao; formerly also Rio Grande and the mountains of El 

 Guilarte) ; and the island of Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican 

 Republic — Abnercen; Rio Yuna; Bonao; Gonave; Tortue; ViUa 

 Alta Gracia ; Montet ; Sosiia) . 



Type locality. — Sosiia, Dominican Republic. 



Ardea scolopacea Rittee, Naturh. Reise westind., Insel Hayti, 1836, 157 (Haiti). 

 Aramus scolopaeeus Saij.6, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1857, 236 (Dominican 

 Republic; habits). 



" Four specimens from Haiti and the Dominican Republic. 

 " Three specimens from Haiti and the Dominican Republic. 



