2 GO Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. 



Chen caerulescens (Linn,). 



Anas caerulescens Linn. Syst. Nat. I, loth ed. p. 124 (175S) ; ib. 12th ed. 



p. 198 (1766). 

 Chen caerulescens GvyiDi.. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 3vS7 (1866); il>. 



J. f. O. 1875, p, 374 (Cuba).— Cory, List. Bds. W. I. p. 30 (1885). 

 Anser oaerulescens Bryant, Pr. Host. Soc. Nat. Hist. XI, p. 70 (1867) 



(Bahamas). 



Recorded from the Bahamas and Cuba. Possibly not sepa- 

 rable from the preceding species, of which it may prove to be a 

 race. 



Genus Branta vScopoli. 



Branta ScoPOLi, Ann. i Hist. Nat. p. 67, 1769. 



Branta canadensis (Linn.). 



Anas canadensis Linn. Syst. Nat. I, p. 198 (1766). 



Branta canadensis Bannister, Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila. 1870, p. 131. 

 Bcrnicla canadensis A. & E. Newton, Handb. Jamaica, p. 112 (18S1). — 

 Cory, Revised List Bds. W. I. p. 30 (1SS6). 



Recorded from Jam^iica. 



Genus Dendrocygna Swains. 

 Dendrocygtia Swainson, Classif. Birds, H, p. 365, 1S37. 



Dendrocygna arborea (Linn.). 



Anas arborea Linn. Syst. Nat. I, p. 207 (1766). — Gmel. Syst. Nat. I, 

 p. 540 (1788). — ViEiLL. Enc. Meth. p. 141 (1823). — D'Orb. in La 

 Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, I, p. 291 (1840). — Sundev. Oefv. K. Vet. 

 Akad. For. 1869, p. 603. 



AnasjacquiniGmKi^. Syst. Nat. I, p. 536 (1788). 



Dendrocygna arborea Eyton, Mon. Anat. p. no (1838). — Gosse, Bds. 

 Jam. p. 395 (1S47). — Cab. J. f. O. 1857, p. 227. — A. & E. Newton, 

 Ibis, 1859, p. 366. — Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 122 

 (1859); '''^- XI' P- 70 (1866).— Albrecht, J. f. O. 1862, p. 206. — 

 March, Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1864, p. 70. — Gundl. Repert. 

 Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 387 (1866) ; ib. Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. 

 VII, p. 400 (187S).— ScL. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1876, p. 375.— Cory, 

 Bds. Bahama I. p. 183 (1880). — A. &. E. Newton, Handb. Jamaica, 

 p. 112 (1881). — Cory, Bds. Haiti & San Domingo, p. 166 (1885) '■> 

 ib. List*Bds. W. I. p. 30 (1885).— Bd. Bwr. & Ridgw. Hist. N. Am. 

 W. Bds. I, p. 480 (1884). 



