Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. 2 7^ 



Phaethon aethereus Linn. 



Phaetbon cetkereus Linn. Syst. Nat. I, loth ed. p. 134 (1758) ; ib. 12th 



ed. p. 219(1766). — GossE, Bds. Jam. p. 430 (1847).— Sundev. Oefv. 



K. Vet. Akad. For 1869, p. 590 (St. Bartholomew) ; ib. p. 603 



(Porto Rico).— Lawr. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. I, p. 195 (1878) (St. 



Vincent) ; ib. p. 274 (Grenada) ; ib. p. 460 (Guadeloupe). — A. & E. 



Newton, Handb. Jamaica, p. 112 (18S1). — Cory, List Bds. W. I. 



P- 33 (1885); ib. Ibis, i886, p. 474 (La Desirade).— Wells, List 



Bds. Grenada, p 11(1886). 

 Phaeto7i (Ethereus D'Orb. in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois, p. 312 



(1840).— GuNDL. J. f. O. 1862, p. 96 (Cuba) ; ib. Albrecht, p. 207 



(Jamaica). 



Sp. Char.— Bill red; General plumage white; a black crescent in front 

 of the eye; a stripe extending from the eye to the occiput; outer 

 webs of outer primaries, and most of the primary coverts, black; 

 rest of upper surface irregularly barred with dull black; flanks 

 striped; elongated central tail-feathers white, basal portion of the 

 shafts black; tarsus yellowish orange this color reaching to the 

 first joint of the toes, including the web between the inner and hind 

 toes; restof feet black 



Length, 31.00 wing, 12.00 bill, 2.45. 



Recorded from Cuba, Jamaica, Porto Rico, St. Vincent, 

 Grenada, Gaudeloupe, St. Bartholomew, and La Desirade. 



Family RYNCHOPID^. 



Genus Rynchops Linn. 



Rynckops Linn^us, Syst. Nat. I, loth ed. p. 228, 1758; ib. 12th ed. p. 



228, 1776. 



Rynchops nigra Linn. 



RyncJiops nigra Linn. Syst. Nat. I, loth ed. p. 228 (1758) ; ib. 12th ed. p. 



228 (1766).— A. &E. Newton, Ibis, 1859, P-37i (St. Croix) .'—Cory. 



List Bds. W.L p. 33 (1885). 

 Rkyncops nigra Gundl. Report. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 393 (1S66) ; ib. 



J. f.O. 1875, p. 395 (Cuba). 



Accidental in Cuba and St. Croix. 



