2^4 Ci^KY on the Birds of the West Indies. 



Win IKK Pi IMAGE, J/(j/f.- — Above dark Inown with slight greenish reflections; 

 siiios of the head and throat ashy giay, continuous in a broad band around 

 the neck; undcrparts silky white, mottled with dusky; outer primaries 

 showing chocolate-brown, the others and secondaries white. 

 Length, 9.35; wing, 3.60; tarsus, 1.24; bill, .S5. 



Habitat. Bahanuis and Greater Antilles. 



Colynibtis hoIboclUi (^Reinh.) is included by Mr, Wells in his 

 list of the birds of Greniula ^Podiofs fiol$o!li ^ Wells, List of 

 the liirds of Grenada, p. \2. iS8b), hut is probably some other 

 species wrongly identified. 



Genus Podilymbus Less. 

 Podihmbus Lesson, Traitc d'Orn. \, p. 595 (,1831). 



Podilymbus podiceps ^^Linn.). 



Co/ymdus fodiee/s L\ss. Syst. Nat. I, p. 223 (1766). — Sinoi v. Oefv. K. Vet. 

 Acad. For. 1869, p. 603 (Porto Rico). 



Colvinbus carolitiensis D'Okb. in La Sagra's Hist. Xat. Cuba, Ois. p. 2S5 (1840). 



Fodilynibus enro/ine/isis GossE, Bds. Jam. p. 43S (,1847). 



Sylbeocyclns carolincnsis Ginol. J. f. O. 1S56, p. 431 (Cuba). — Pki-wek, Pr. 

 Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VH, p. 308 (i860) (Cuba). 



Podilymhits podiceps ScL. P. Z. S. 1S61, p. 82 (Jamaica). — M.\RCH, Pr. Acad 

 Nat. Sci. Phila. 1864, p. 70 (Jamaica). — Gindl. Repert. Fisico-Nat, 

 Cuba, L p. 3S6 (1S66); ib. J. f. O. 1S75, p. 367 (Cuba). — L.a.\vr. Pr. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus. I, p. 48S (187S) (St. Vincent and Grenada); ib. p. 242 

 (Barbuda). — Gindl. Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. VH, p. 397 (1S7S) 

 (Porto Rico). — Set.. P. Z. S. 1S79. p. 765 (Montserrat). — A. & E. 

 Newton, Handb. Jamaica, p. 117 (iSSi). — Cory, List Bds. W. L p. 34 

 (18S5). — Wells, List Bds. Grenada, p. 12 (iS86j. 



Numerous West Indian records. 



