BIRDS OF HAITI AND SAN DOMINGO. 



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FAMILY 



H^MATOPHODID/E. 



Subfamily, H JE M AT O P H O D I N JE . 



Genus: H^MATOPHUS. Linn. 

 H/EMATOPUS: LINN., SYST. NAT., Ed. 10, /. 152 (175S); Ed. 12, /. 257 (1766). 



H/EMATOPUS PALLIATUS. Temm. 



Hcematopus palliatus. Temm., Man., II. p. 532 (1820). — And., 

 Orn. Biog., III. p. 181 (1835). — Bel., Bds. N. Am., p. 699 

 (1858). — Coues, Key N. Am. Bds., p. 246 (1872). — Gundl., 

 Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat., Tomo VII. p. 379 (187S). — Cory, 

 Bds. Bahama I., p. 150 (1880). — Ridg., Norn. N. Am. Bds., 

 No. 507 (18S1). — Bd., Bwr. and Ridgw., N. Am. W. Bds., I. 

 p. 112 (1884). — Coues, Key N. Am. Bds., p. 606 (1884). 



Hcematopus arcticus. "Jard., ed. Wils., III. p. 35 (1832)." 



"Hcematopus ostralcgus. Wils., Am. Orn., VIII. p. 15, pi. Ixiv. (1814)." 



Sp. CAar., Male. — Head and neck, blackish or very dark 

 brown ; back, brown ; lower part of breast and rest of unclerparts, 

 white ; eyelids, rump, tips of wing coverts, part of secondaries, and 

 basal portion of the tail-feathers, white; bill, orange, darkening at 

 the tip (in summer deep red) ; legs, flesh color. 



Length 17.40; wing 10.05; tail 4.35; tarsus 2.30; bill 3.50. 



The present species probably occasionally visits San Domingo. 



None were observed by our party, but the inhabitants described 



it, stating that it was not uncommon. 

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