BIRDS OF HAITI AND SAN DOMINGO. 



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yEGIALITIS WILSONIUS. Ord. 



Charadrius wilsonius. "Orel., ed. Wils., IX. p. 77 (1825)." — Nutt, 



Man. Orn., II. p. 21 (1834). — Aud., Orn. Biog., III. p. 73 (1835). 

 sEgialites wilsonius. Bp., Consp. List, p. 45 (1838). — Coues, Check 



List, 2d ed., No. 585 (18S2). 

 sEgialitis wilsonius. Cass., in Bds. B. N. Am., p. 693 (1858). — 



Bd., Cat. N. Am. Bds., No. 506 (1S59.) — Coues, Key N. Am. 



Bds., p. 244 (1872). — Cory, Bds. Bahama I., p. 147 (1881). — 



Coues, Key N. Am. Bds., p. 601 (1S84). 

 Ochthodroimis -wilsonius. Reich., Syst. Ay., XVIII. (1S53). — Gundl., 



Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat., Torao VII. p. 3S1 (1878).— Bd., 



Bwr. and Ridgw., N. Am. W. Bds., I. p. 168 (1884). 



S/>. Char., Male. — Above, ashy brown ; forehead, white, extend- 

 ing into a faint superciliary stripe of dull black on the crown ; 

 throat white, continuing on the sides of the neck, nearly joining 

 upon the nape ; a black pectoral band, the feathers edged with 

 white, becoming brown upon the sides ; underparts, white ; two 

 central tail-feathers, brown, the others showing increasing markings 

 of white to the outer tail-feathers, which are white ; bill, black 

 (large and stout); legs, pinkish. 



Female and immature birds have the pectoral band brown, 

 and no black on the head. 



Length 7.45; wing 4.60; tail 1.90; tarsus 1.16; bill .90. 



A specimen in my collection is labelled Port au Prince, Haiti. 

 It has been taken in Cuba, and Gundlach records it from Porto 

 Rico. None were observed by our party. 



