Appendix to Birds of the West Indies. 297 



Chrysotis caymanensis Cory. 



Chrysotis caymanensis Cory, Auk, III, pp. 497, 502 (1886). 



Sp. Char. — Resembles C. leucocephahis, but differs from that species in the 

 markings of the throat and head; forehead dull yellowish white, not 

 reaching the eye ; feathers of the head bluish green, tipped and edged with 

 dull black; cheeks bright crimson red, the feathers mixed with green in 

 some specimens; throat pale red, the feathers broadly edged with yellow; 

 underparts bluish green, marked with dull red on the sides and belly; the 

 feathers of the breast and belly edged with dull black; quills heavily edged 

 with blue on the outer webs, inner webs dark brown ; tail yellowish green, 

 the outer web of outer feather pale blue, the basal portion of inner webs 

 heavily marked with dark red. 



Length, 11 ; wing, 8; tail, 5; tarsus, .70; bill, 1.05, 



Habitat. Grand Cayman. 



Columbigallina passerina insularis Ridgw, 



Columbigallina passerina insularis RiDGWAY, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. p. 574 (1887). 



In the very large series which I have examined from the Baha- 

 mas, Grand Cayman, and elsewhere, I can find no differences which 

 appear to be at all constant or restricted to any one locality. Mr. 

 Maynard separated the Bahama bird under the name of C. baha- 

 mensis (Maynard, American Exchange and Mart, Vol. Ill, No. 4, 

 p. 69, Feb, 5, 1887, Boston), describing it as " similar to the com- 

 mon ground dove, but with the bill constantly wholly black, and 

 much smaller and paler." 



Mr. Ridgway separates the Grand Cayman bird (1. c.) as C. pas- 

 serina insu/aris, describing it as very similar to C. bahamensis Mayn, 

 "but larger, and with the basal half (or more) of bill distinctly or- 

 ange or yellowish." Part of the series examined is contained in my 

 own collection, and comprises forty-one specimens from Grand 

 Cayman and Cayman Brack, fifty-two from the Bahama Islands, 

 and sixty-seven from Florida, Georgia, and the Greater and Lesser 

 Antilles. 



Vanellus vanellus (Linn.). 



Tringa vanellus LiNN. Syst. Nat. I, p. 148 (1758); ib. Syst. Nat. I, p. 24S 



(1766). 

 Vanellus crestatus Wolf & Myer, Hist. Nat. Ois. de. I'Allem, p. no (1805). — 



Feiluen, Zoologist, p. 301 (i888) (Karbadoes). 



