2 74 Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. 



Sula piscator Gosse, Bds. Jam. p. 418 (1847). — A. & E. Newton, Handb 

 Jamaica, p. 112 (iSSi).— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 32 (1885).— 

 Wells, List Bds. Grenada, p. 11 (1886). 



Dysporus kernandezi Gvymi.. J. f. O. 1878, p. 298 (Cuba). 



Dysporiis piscator Gundl. J. f. O. 18S1, p. 401 (Cuba). 



Sp. Char. Adult Male: — General plumage white, showing a buff tinge on 

 the head and neck; shafts of the tail-feathers pale vellow; remiges 

 and most of the wing-coverts slaty graj, showing an ash tinge; feet 

 reddish. 



Young in first plumage: — General plumage grayish brown above; dull 

 gray beneath, sometimes whitish ; plumage very variable. 



Length, 28.00; wing, 14-50; tail, 8.00; tarsus, 2.10; bill, 3.30. 



Habitat. West Indies. 



Family PHAETHONTID^. 



Genus Phaethon Linn. 

 Phaetho7i Linn^us, Syst. Nat. 1756; ib. I, p. 134, 175S. 



Phaethon flavirostris Brandt. 



Phaethon flavirostris Brandt, Bull. Soc. Acad. St. Petersb. H, p. 349 

 (1837)- — Lawr. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. I, p. 65 (1878) (Dominica). — 

 ib. p. 240 (B-irbuda) ; ib. p. 359 (Martinique). — Cory, Bds. Baha- 

 ma \. p. 204 (i8Sa) ; ib. Bds. Haiti & San Domingo, p. 175 (1S85) ; 

 ib. List Bds. W. \. p. 33 ;.i885). 



Phaeton flavirostris} Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 12S 

 (1859) (Bahamas). — ib. Brewer, p. 308 (1S60) (Cuba). — Gundl. 

 Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I. p. 395 (1S66). — Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. 

 Y. VIII, p. 103 (1867) (Sombrero) —Gunul. J. f. O. 1874, p. 314 

 (Porto Rico); ib. 1S75, p. 403 (Cuba); ib. 1S78, p. 163 (Porto 

 Rico); ib. Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. VII, p. 419 (1S7S) Porto 

 Rico). 



Adult Male: — Bill pale orange yellow; general plumage white, some- 

 times slightly rosy-tinted; most of primaries showing much black; 

 a streak passing through the eye ; some of the wing-coverts and 

 shafts of tail-feathers black; tail extended into two very long feath- 

 ers which are reddened ; tarsus bluish; iris black; webs and toes 

 black. 



Length, including tail-feathers, 31.50; wing, 11.00; tail, 21.00; 

 tarsus, .90; bill, 2.00. 



Habitat. Bahamas and Antilles. 



