BIRDS OF HAITI AND SAN DOMINGO. 



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A single specimen of this 

 Le Coup in March. No others 



No. Date. Sex. Mus. 



1276 March 3,1881. 9 C. B. C. j 



interesting form was killed near 

 were seen. 



Locality. Length. Wing. Tail. Tarsus. 



Le Coup, 

 Haiti. 



56° J -75 



Genus: RUPORNIS. Kaup. 



RUPORNIS: KAUP, CLASS IF. SAUG. U. VOC, 1S44. 



RUPORNIS RIDGWAYI. Cory. 



Rupomis ridgwayi. Cory, Journ. Bost. Zool. Soc, II. p. 46 (1883); 

 Auk, I. p. 4 (1884). 



Sp. Char., Male. — Above, slaty brown ; shafts of the feathers of 

 the head and upper back, dark brown ; underparts, slaty, faintly 

 touched with rufous on the belly and abdomen ; chin, dull white ; 

 shoulders and thighs, rufous, the latter 'much the brighter, and faintly 

 pencilled with indistinct pale lines ; wings and tail, dark brown, 

 imperfectly banded with dull white, and showing various shadings of 

 a rufous tinge ; all the outer primaries imperfectly banded with 

 white, gradually becoming fainter on the outer webs, until just per- 

 ceptible on the sixth, the rest of primaries and secondaries, with 

 the outer web, dark brown ; and the inner webs thickly banded 

 with white, showing traces of rufous. 



Length 13.75; wing 9.15; tail 6; tarsus 2.75; bill 1.20. 



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