1899.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 301 



A NEW SPECIES OF COCCYZUS FROM ST. ANDREWS. 

 BY WITHER STONE. 



The first collection of birds from the isolated island of St. 

 Andrews in the Caribbean Sea seems to have been made in the 

 winter of 1886-7, by Mr. Robert Henderson, who was collecting 

 for Mr. Charles B. Cory. 



Nineteen species were obtained, of which five were described as 

 new by Mr. Cory.^ 



On May 1, 1887, Dr. William L. Abbott stopped at the island 

 and collected a few specimens representing six species. 



Two of these Avere not obtained by Mr. Henderson, namely, 

 Lampornis violicauda and a Coccyzus allied to C. minor, but appar- 

 ently distinct, for which I would propose the name Coccyzus abbotti. 



This bird differs from C. minor especially in its much longer bill, 



and this character, curiously enough, is likewise conspicuous in 



Mimm magnirostris and Icterus laivrencei, U\o other peculiar species 



separated by Mr. Cory. 



Coccyzus abbotti n. sp. 



Type No. 25,177, Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., St. Andrews, May 1, 1877, 

 W. L. Abbott. 



Similar to C. minor, but with much larger and longer bill, 

 abdomen and flanks paler, sides of the neck less gray and more 

 suffused with buff. 



WING. CULMEX. 



C. minor, 5.30 ins. 1.08 ins. 

 C. abbotti, 5.20 1.28 



1 Auk, 1887, p. 177. 



