BIRDS OF HAITI AND SAN DOMINGO. 



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tree or bush, uttering from time to time a curious but not 

 unmusical whistle. It is not particular as to food ; insects, beetles, 

 berries, or fruits being equally acceptable. An egg procured at 

 Jacmel is of a greenish blue color, covered with a white, chalky 

 coating. 



No. Date. Sex. Mus. Locality. Length. Wing. Tail. Tarsus. Bill. 



4029 Nov. 24, 1882. $ C. B. C. I c Puer i° P ! ata ' j 12.25 6.20 7.50 1.50 1. 10 

 ^ J +10 j g an Domingo, j 3 / 0 0 



Subfamily, COCCYGIN^. 



Genus: COCCYGUS. Vieill. 

 COCCYZUS: VIE TL LOT, ANALYSE, p. 28, 18 16. 



COCCYGUS MINOR. (Gm.) 



Cuculus dominions. Linn., Syst. Nat., I. p. 170 (1766). 



Coccyzus senicnlns. Nutt., Man., I. p. 558 (1832). — Aud., Orn. Biog., 



II. p. 390, pi. clxix. (1834); lb., Bds. Am., IV. p. 303, pi. 



cclxxvii. (1842). — Gosse, Bds. Jam., p. 281 (1847). — Salle, 



P. Z. S., 1857, p. 234. — Newton, Ibis, 1859, p. 150. — Scl., 



P. Z. S., 1861, p. 79. 

 Coccygus minor. Bd., Bds. N. Am., p. 78 (1858). — Bryant, Pr. 



Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist, XI. p. 96 (1866). — Bd., Bwr. and 



Ridgw., N. Am. Bds., II. p. 482 (1874). — Cory, Bull. Nutt. 



Orn. Club, VI. p. 154 (1881). 

 Coccyzus minor. Cory, Bds. Bahama I., p. 117 (1880). — Gund., 



Anal, de la Soc. Esp. de Hist. Nat., Tomo VII. p. 231 (1878). 



