Cory on the Birth of the West Indies. 26 I 



Dendrocygnus arborea Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 30S 



(1S60). 

 Dendrocygna antiimnalisf Taylor, Ibis, 1S64, p. 172. 



Sp. Char. Male: — Head witli black band on the crown, continuing in 

 narrow stripes to the nape; forehead and over the eye reddish 

 brown, shading into dull white on the throat, and mottled brown 

 and white on the sides of the head and neck; breast and upper parts 

 brown, the feathers broadly edged with tawny ; rump and tail black ; 

 underparts brownish white, heavily spotted and banded upon the 

 sides, the spots becoming very small and faint upon the abdomen; 

 most of the primaries slate-color, becoming brownish at the tips ; 

 legs and bill black. 



Length, 21.00; wing, 11.25; tarsus, 2.60; bill 2.00. 

 Habitat. Bahamas and Antilles. 



Dendrocygna autumnalis (Linn.). 



Anas autumnalis Linn. Syst. Nat. I, p. 205 (1766). 



Dendrocygna autumnalis Gosse, Bds. Jam. p. 398 (1847). — Albrecht, 



J. f. O. 1862, p. 206 (Jamaica). — March, Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 



1864, p. 70 (Jamaica). — A. & E. Newton, Handb. Jamaica, p. 112 



(i880-— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 30 (1885). 



Accidental in Jamaica. 



Dendrocygna viduata (Linn.). 



yl««5 f/^«rt^rt Linn. Syst. Nat. I, p. 205 (1766). — Gmel. Syst. Nat. I, 

 P- 536 (178S). — ViEiLL. Enc. Metli. p. 132 (1823). 



Dendrocygna viduata Eytox, Mon. Anat. p. no (1838). — Albrecht, 

 J. f. O. 1861, p. 214. — GuNDL. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 388 

 (1866); tb.]. f. O. 1875, p. 377.— Sol. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1876, p. 

 376.— Bd. Bwr. & RiDGw. Hist. N. Am. W. Bds. I, p. 481 (1884).— 

 Cory, List Bds. W. L p. 30 (1885). 



Dendrocygnus viduata Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 308 

 (i860). 



Sp. Char. Male:—Y,ni\\-e. front of head, including eye, cheeks and chin, 

 white, tinged with brown; a patch of white on the middle of the 

 throat, connecting with the white upper throat and chin by a narrow 

 white line; rest of head and neck black; breast and upper back 

 rufous brown ; sides of the body thickly banded with narrow black 

 and white lines; centre of the belly and lower breast black; feath- 

 ers on the back edged with tawny; wings black; carpus and 

 shoulder chestnut bi-own ; wing-coverts showing an olive tinge ; bill 

 black; feet black. 



The sexes are similar. 



Length, 19.00; wing, 9,00; tail, 4.00; tarsus, 2.00; bill, 2.00. 



