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BIRDS OF HAITI AND SAN DOMINGO. 



FAMILY 



CUCULIDiE. 



Subfamily, S A U R O T H E R I N JE . 

 Genus: SAUROTHERA. Vieill. 



SAUROTHERA : VIEILLOT, "ANALYSE, p. 36, 1S16." 



SAUROTHERA DOMINICENSIS. (La/r.) 



Saurothera dominiccusis. Lafr., Revue Zool., 1S47, p. 355. — Salle, 

 P. Z. S., 1857, p. 234. — Scl., P. Z. S., 1859, p. 378. — Bryant, 

 Pr. Post. Soc. Nat. Hist., XI. p. 95 (1866). — Gray, Hand List, 

 II. p. 208 (1870). — Cory, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, VI. p. 154 

 (1881). 



Sp. Char., Male. — Head, back, breast, and two central tail- 

 feathers, slate color, darkest on the head, where it sometimes shows 

 a faint brownish tinge, and lightest, being almost ashy, on the 

 breast; wing coverts and tertiaries, slaty gray, showing pale green- 

 ish reflections when held in the light; primaries and some of the 

 secondaries, bright rufous brown, the first two edged with dull 

 greenish, and all tipped with the same color; outer tail-feathers, 

 bluish, tipped with white, becoming dull olive at the base; two 

 central tail-feathers tipped with black ; throat and abdomen, pale 

 rufous, a bare space encircling the eye, bright red; bill and legs, 

 slaty. 



