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BIRDS OF HAITI AND SAN DOMINGO. 



/Egia/i/is vocifcrus. Bp., Comp. List, p. 45 (1838). — Gosse, Bds. 

 Jam., p. 330 (1847). — Salle, P. Z. S., 1857, p. 236. — Cory, 

 Bds. Bahama I., p. 145 (1 8S0). — Cones, Key N. Am. Bds., 

 p. 600 (18S4). 



Oxycclius vociferus. Reich., Syst. Av., 1S53, pi. xviii. — Gundl., 

 Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat., Tomo VII. p. 382 (1878). — Ridg., 

 Norn. N. Am. Bds., No. 516 (1SS1). — Bd., Bwr. and Ridgw., 

 N. Am. W. Bds., I. p. 148 (1884). 



Charadrius torquatus. Linn., Syst. Nat., I. p. 225 (1766). 



Charadrius jamaicensis. Gm., Syst. Nat., I. p. 685 (1788). 



Charadrius (Aigialitis) vocifcrus. Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. 

 Hist, XI. p. 97 (1866). 



Sp. Char., Male. — Above, dark olive brown; throat, white, 

 continuing in a band around the neck, edged below with black; 

 narrow upon the back, and broad upon the upper part of the 

 breast, the black band of the breast again succeeded by one of 

 white, shading into the color of the back upon the sides, and that, 

 in turn, by still another band of black, reaching to the wings, the 

 feathers of the latter edged with white ; forehead, white, the band 

 touching the eyes and succeeded by a black bar across the crown; 

 a superciliary line of tawny white reaching nearly to the nape; 

 underparts, white; rump, orange brown; tail-feathers, except the cen- 

 tral, white (at tips), orange, and black in turn, becoming white again 

 at the base ; primaries edged and, except the first two, tipped with 

 white; secondaries and coverts tipped with white, forming a bar. 



Length 10; wing 6.50; tail 3. So ; tarsus 1.50; bill .80. 



Dr. Bryant found this species in San Domingo, and it is recorded 

 from Cuba and Porto Rico. It was not met with by our party. 



