Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. 263 



Genus Dafila Steph. 



Dafila Stephexs, Shaw's Gen. Zool. XII, p. 126, 1824. 



Dafila bahamensis (Linn.). 



A7ias bahamensis L,iV(yi. Sjst. Nat. I, p. 199 (1766). — Gmel. Sjst. Nat. I, 

 p. 516 (17SS).— Max. Beitr. p. 925 (1831).— Sundev. Oefv. K Vet. 

 Akad. For. 1869, p. 591. 



Anas rudiyostf is V1EII.J.. Nouv. Diet. V, p. loS (1S16). 



Anas ilathera Vieill. Enc. Meth. p. 152 (1823). 



Anas urophasianus ViG. Zool. Journ. IV, p. 357 (1S29). 



Phasianurits vigorsii VVagl. Isis, 1832, p. 1235. 



Anasfimbriata Merrem, Ersch u. Gruber's Encj. sect. i,XXXV, p. 35. 



Dafila urophasianus Eyton, Mon. Anat. p. 112 (1838). 



Peocilonetta bahamensis Eyton, Mon. Anat. p. 116 (1S38). — Gosse, Bds. 

 Jam. p. 40S (1S47). — ScL. P. Z. S. i860, p. 3S9. — Abbott, Ibis, 

 1861, p. 160. — Albrecht, J. f. O. 1862, p. 207. — March, Pr. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. Piiila. 1864, p. 71. — Gundl. J. f. O. 1874, p. 314; ib. Anal. 

 Soc. Esp Hist. Nat. VII, p. 403 (1878) ; ib. J. f. O. 1881, p. 400. 



Dafila bahamensis Hartl. Ind. Az. p. 27 (1847). — Cab. in Schomb. 

 Guian III, p. 763 (1S4S).— Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1S76, p. 393.— 

 Lawr Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. I, p. 4S7 (1878).— A. & E. Newton, 

 Handb. Jamaica, p 113 (iSSi). — Cory, Bds. Bahama I. p. 1S5 

 (1880) ; ib. Bds. Haiti & San Domingo, p. 167 (1S85) ; '^- List Bds. 

 W.I p. 31 (18S5) 



Sp. Char. Male: — General plumage tawnj, mottled and streaked with 

 brown ; wings banded with lustrous green, black and tawnj, in the 

 order given ; top of head and nape brown, finely mottled with dark 

 brown; rest of head and throat white; a triangular patch on each 

 side of the upper mandible lake red ; tail tawnj, becoming pale at 

 the tip; legs black. 



Length, 19.00; wing, 8.00; tail, 4.75; tarsus, 1.25; bill, 1.95. 

 Habitat. Bahamas and Antilles. 



Dafila acuta (Linn.). 



Anas acuta LiXN. Syst. Nat. I, p. 202 (1766). — Lemb. Aves Cuba, p. 113 



(1850). 

 Dafila acuta Gosse, Bds. Jam. p. 40S (1847). — Cab. J. f. O. 1857, P- ^-7 



(Cuba).— Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 308 (1S60) 



(Cuba). — Albrecht, J. f. O. 1862, p. 207 (Jamaica). — March. Pr. 



Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1864, p. 71 (Jamaica). — Gundl. Repert. 



Fisico-Nat. Cuba,. I, p. 388 (i860) ; ib. J. f. O. 1S75, p. 378 (Cuba) ; 



ib. Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. VII, p. 402 (1878) (Porto Rico).— 



A. & E. Newton, Handb. Jamaica, p. 113 (1S81). — Cory, List Bds. 



W.I. p. 31 (1885). 



Recorded from Cuba, Jamaica, and Porto Rico. 



