BIRDS OF HAITI AND SAN DOMINGO. 



FAMILY 



charadriim; 



Subfamily, CE D I C N E M I N JE . 



Genus: (EDICNEMUS. Temm. 



(EDICNEMUS : TEMM., MAX. D , ORN., 1S15. 



CEDICNEMUS DOMINICENSIS. Cory. 



Girficucmus domiiticensis. Cory, Journ. Zool. Soc, II. p. 46 (1S83); 

 Auk, I. p. 4 (1SS4). 



Sp. Char., Male. — Top of the head, back, wing coverts, and 

 tail, brown ; feathers with very pale edgings, giving a mottled 

 appearance to the back; the tail-feathers showing a band of dull 

 white, succeeded by a broad black tip; breast, slaty, becoming dull 

 white on the throat; abdomen, white, tinged with very pale rufous; 

 a line of black passing from the top of the eye along the sides of 

 the head to the neck; under surface of wings, white, becoming- 

 dark brown at the tips ; the shafts of the feathers on the breast 

 and throat, dark brown, forming numerous hair-like lines on the 

 surface of the plumage; legs and feet, greenish yellow; upper 

 mandible, black ; under mandible, green at the base, shading into 

 black at the tip ; iris, yellow. 



The sexes appear to be similar. 



Length 14.50; wing S.50; tail 3.75; tarsus 3.75; bill 1.50. 



