2q8 Appendix to Birds of the West Indies. 



Fanet/us vz^/garis, Bechst. Orn. Taschenb, II, p. 313 (1803).— Dresser, Hist. 



Bds. Europe, VII, p. 28 (1871-1881). 

 Vanellus vanellus Light. Nom. Mus. Berol. p. 95 (1854). — A. O. U. Code and 



Check List N. A. Bds. p. 160 (1886). 



A single specimen of the European Lapwing has been recorded 

 from the West Indies, a bird of this species having been taken at 

 Barbadoes, Dec. 24, 1888. (Feilden, Zoologist, p. 301," 1888.) 



Ardea bahamensis Brewster. 



Ardea bahamensis Brewster, Auk, V, p. 83 (188S). 



Sp. Char. — "Smaller than A. virescens; the general coloring much paler, 

 browner, or yellower, and more uniform; the forehead strongly tinged with 

 brownish; the light edging of the secondaries broader; the dorsal plumes 

 and rump only slightly, sometimes not at all, greenish; top of head dark 

 dull green, strongly tinged with brownish on the forehead; throat, jugulum, 

 and foreneck creamy white, with dusky spotting on the jugulum; remainder 

 of head and neck light chestnut, approaching cinnamon in places; fore- 

 part and sides of back rusty cinnamon; rump and most of upper tail- 

 coverts drab; dorsal plumes dull greenish, the central ones glaucous, with 

 a tinge of lilac; wings and tail dull green, the wing-coverts edged broadly 

 on both webs, the secondaries more narrowly on the outer webs only, with 

 rusty or whitish under wing-coverts; breast, abdomen, crissum, and sides 

 of the body light yellowish drab." (Brewster, orig. discr. 1. c.) 



Habitat. Bahama Islands (Rum Kay, Watling's I., Abaco I.). 



Hydrochelidon leucoptera (Temm.). 



This species is given by Mr. Ridgway as accidental in the West 

 Indies. (Man. N. A. Birds, p. 47, 1887.) 



Stercorarius parasiticus (Linn.). 



Larus parasiticus Linn. Syst. Nat. I, p. 1,36 (1758). 



Stercorarius parasiticus ScHAFF. Mus. Orn. p. 62 (1789). — A. O. U. Code and 



Check List of N. A. Bds. p. 85 (1886). 

 Stercorarius crepidatus Feilden, Zoologist, p. 350 (i888). 



Col. H. W. Feilden records this species from Barbadoes, a single 

 specimen taken aUve on July 10, 1888. 



