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Erismatura rubida (Wils.). 



Atias rubida Wils. Am. Orn. VIII, pp. 128-130 (1814). 



Erismatura spinosa GossE, Bds. Jam. p. 404 (1847). — Albrecht, T. f. O. 



1S62 p 207 (Jamaica). 

 Fuligula rubida Lemb. Aves Cuba, p. uS (1S50). 

 Erisinatura rubida Bryant, Pr. Bost. Sec. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 122 (1859) 



(Bahamas).— GuNDL. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 390 (1866) ; 



ib. J f, O. 1874, p. 314 (Porto Rico) ; ib. 1S75, p. 384 (Cuba) ; ib. 



Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. VII, p. 407 (1878) (Porto Rico).— Cory, 



Bds Bahama I. p 189 (1S80).— A. & E. Newton, Handb. Jamaica, 



p. 113 (1881).— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 31 (1885).— Wells, List 



Bds. Grenada, p. 10 (18S6). 



Occurs in winter in the West Indies ; records from Porto Rico, 

 Cuba, Jamaica, Grenada, and the Bahamas. 



Genus Nomonyx Ridgw. 

 Nomonyx Ridgway, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. 11, p. 15, March 27, 1880. 



Nomonyx dominicus (Linn.). 



Anas dominica Linn Syst. Nat. I, p. 201 (1766).— Sindev. Oefv. K. Vet. 



Akad. For 1869 p 603 (Porto Rico). 

 Anasspinosa? D'Orb. in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois. p. 297 (1840).' 

 Erismatura dominica A. & E. Newton, Ibis, 1859, P- 367 (St. Croix) (.?). 



— GuNDL. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 391 (1866); ib.].i.O. 



1874, p. 314 (Porto Rico) ; ib. 1875, p. 314 (Cuba) ; ib. Anal. Soc. 



Esp Hist Nat. VII, p. 408 (1878) (Porto Rico). 

 Dendrocygnus spinosa Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 308 (i860) 



(Cuba) 

 Nomonyx dominicus Cory. Lisf Bds. W. I. p. 31 (1SS5). 



Sp. Char. Malet—HQ^ of head brownish black ; a stripe of brown through 

 the eye, and a parallel stripe of the same color below, separated by 

 a narrow stripe of tawnj: a narrow tawnv superciliary stripe; 

 throat tawny brown, the feathers marked with chestnut, heaviest on 

 the lower part; undcrparts dull white, marked with yellowish 

 brown ; feathers of the back having the centres black, and heavily 

 edged with chestnut ; quills and tail dark brown ; secondaries white, 

 tipped with brown, forming a large white patch on the wing. In 

 some plumages the male is described as having the entire head 

 black. 



The female differs from the male in lacking the chestnut marking 

 on the upper parts which is replaced by pale brown, hill dark 

 brown, almost black 



Length, 12.00 wing, 5.30; tail 3.10; tarsus, 90; bill, 1.30. 

 Habitat. Antilles. 



