2 70 Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. 



Genus Lophodytes Reich. 



Lophodytes Reichekbacii, Sjst. Av. p. IX, 1S52. 



Lophodytes cucullatus (Linn.). 



Mergus cucullatus Linn. Sjst. Nat. I, loth ed. p. 129 (1758) ; ib. 12th ed. 



p. 207 (1766).— Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 30S (i860) 



(Cuba). — GuNDL. J. f. O. 1862, p. 93 (Cuba). — Cory, List Bds. 



W.I. p. 31 (18S5). 

 Lophodytes cucullatus Gundl. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 391 (1866) ; 



ib.].{. O. 1875, p. 385 (Cuba). 



Accidental in Cuba. 



Family FREGATID^. 



Genus Fregata Cuv. 

 Fregata Cuvier, Lee. d'Anat. Comp. I, tabl. II, 1799-1800. 



Fregata aquila (Linn.). 



Pelecanus aquilus Linn. Sjst. Nat. I, loth ed. p. 133 (1758); ib. 12th ed. 

 p. 216 (1766). 



Fregata aquila D'Orb. in La Sagia's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois. p. 309 (1840). 

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

 Lawr. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. I, p. 65 (187S) (Dominica) (.?; ib. p. 195 

 St. Vincent) ; ib. p. 236 (Antigua): ib. p. 240 (Barbuda) ; ib. p. 274 

 (Grenada) ; ib p 359 (Martinique). — Allen Bull. Nutt. Orn. 

 CIub,V, p. 169(1880) (Santa Lucia).— A. & E. Newton Handb. 

 Jamaica, p. 112 (iSSi).— Cory. List Bds. W. I. p. 31 (1885). 



Fregata aquilus GosSE, Bds. Jam. p. 422 (1847). 



Tachypetes aquilus A. & E. Newton Ibis, 1S59, P- 3^9 (St. Croix). — 

 Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 126 (1859) (Bahamas).— 

 Gundl. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 396 (1S66) ; ib. J. f. O. 1874, 

 p. 315 (Porto Rico); ib. Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. VII, p. 421 

 (187S) (Porto Rico).— Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. XI, p. 98 

 (1867) (San Domingo). — Cory, Bds Bahama I. p, 200 (18S0) ; ib. 

 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, VI, p. 155 (18S1) (Haiti); ib. Bds. Haiti & 

 San Domingo, p. 173 (1885). 



TacJiypetes aquila Wells, List Bds. Grenada, p. 10 (1886). 



Abundant in the Bahamas and tliroughout the Antilles. 



