BIRDS OF HAITI AND SAN DOMINGO. 



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Genus: CALYPTOPHILUS. 



THE AUK, I. p. i, 18S4. 

 CALYPTOPHILUS. Cory. 



The present genus has the general appearance, at first glance, of Fho&nicophilus , 

 but it is easily separated from it by the following characters: — 



a. Tail short, about four fifths as long as the wing; middle toe about two 

 thirds of tarsus; tail square, slightly emarginate .... Phcznicophilus. 



b. Tail long, equal to wing ; middle toe about five sixths of tarsus ; tail 

 rounded, and strongly graduated ; bill much narrower, and the legs and feet larger 

 than in Phcenkophihis ......... Calyptophilus . 



CALYPTOPHILUS FRUGIVORUS. Cory. 



Phoznicop Zulus frugivorus. Cory, Journ. Boston Zool. Soc, II. No. 4, 

 P- 45 (i833)- 



Calyptophilus frugivorus. Cory, The Auk, I. p. 3, (1884). 



Sp. Char., Male. — Top of the head brown, shading into ashy 



on the neck behind the 

 eye; rest of upper parts, 

 including back and up- 

 per surface of wings and 

 tail, brownish olive; 

 throat, white ; breast, 

 * white, becoming ashy 

 upon the sides ; flanks, 

 brownish olive, the olive 

 mixing with white upon 

 the crissum ; primaries 



