296 Appendix to Birds of the IVesi Indies. 



scarlet, lighter posteriorly; back, scapulars, and rump barred with black 

 and dull white, the two colors in about equal amount, the bars of each 

 averaging about .08 of an inch in width; wing-coverts more broadly barred 

 with black and pure white; alula; and primary coverts uniform black, the 

 exterior feather of the former with some white along edge; primaries 

 black, irregularly spotted with white toward base, and more or less broadly 

 tipped with white; upper tail-coverts white, rather distantly and irregularly 

 barred with black; tail black, the inner webs of intermedioe marked with 

 oblique quadrate spots of white, the outer webs with an irregularly wedge- 

 shaped streak of white on basal half (chiefly concealed by coverts) ; ex- 

 terior pair barred or transversely spotted with white on terminal portion ; 

 chin and upper part of throat grayish buffy white, gradually deepening into 

 light buffy grayish on lower throat; foreneck, sides of neck and chest 

 deeper grayish, this color assuming decidedly more of a buffy tinge on the 

 breast, upper part of belly, and on flanks; central lower part of belly dull 

 scarlet, the adjacent portions, including lower tail-coverts, dingy white, 

 marked with V-shaped bars of blackish; bill entirely black; feet dusky. 

 Wing, 5.20; tail, 4.00; culmen, 1.50; tarsus, .92." (RiDGW. orig. descr. 1. c.) 



Habitat. Wattling's Island, Bahamas. 



Centurus blakei Ridgw. 



Cettturus blakei RiDGW. Auk, III, p. 337 (1886). 



Sp. Char. — "Similar to C. nyeanus, but much darker; the forehead pale drab, 

 or light grayish buff, instead of pure white; auriculars deep light drab; 

 foreneck and chest olivaceous drab, and lighter bars of back ; scapulars 

 and rump light dingy buff, instead of nearly pure white; frontlet dull 

 orange red, instead of pure vermilion or scarlet. 



"Adult male (type No. 108,618, Abaco I., Bahamas, April 2, 1886, 

 Charles H.Townsend^ : — Wing, 5.35; tail, 3.90; culmen, 1.45; tarsus, .90. 

 " Adult female (type No. 198,619, same locality, April 6, 1886, Willard 

 Nye) : — Similar to the male, but crown and occiput ash gray, becoming 

 gradually lighter anteriorly, the hinder portion (connecting superciliary 

 spots) spotted with black; frontlet merely tinged with orange, and grayish 

 of lower parts, as well as white bars of back, etc., much less strongly 

 tinged with yellowish. Wing, 5.25; tail, 3.80; culmen, 1.35; tarsus, .85." 

 (RiDGWAY, 1. c.) 



Habitat. Abaco, Bahamas. 



Coccygus maynardi Ridgw. 



Coccygus 7naynardi RiDGW. Man. N. A. Bds. p. 274 (1887). 



Sp. Char. — Smaller and paler than C. minor; underparts buff or ashy, not 

 ochvaceous, as in minor. 



Length, 11.90; wing, 5.10; tail, 6.40 ; bill, 1.05. 



Habitat. Bahama Islands. 



