160 ANATID^. 



G. R. Gr. Sand-list, iii. p. 79, n. 10615 (part.) (1871) ; Gieb. Thes, 

 Orn. ii. p. 31 (1875) ; Coues, Key, p. 284 (1872) ; id. Check-list, 

 D. 487 (1873) ; Sclat. Sf Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotrop. p. 129, n. 2 

 (1873) ; Coues, B. N.- West, p. 558 (1874) ; Lawr. Mem. Bost. 

 Soc. N. H. ii. p. 313 (Mazatlan) (1874) ; Sclat. S,- Salv. P. Z. S. 

 1876, p. 375; Merrill, Fr. U.S. Nat. Mus. i. p. 169 (1879); 

 A. \- E. Neivt. Handb. Jain. p. 112 (1881) ; Salv. Cat. B. Strickl. 

 Coll. p. 530 (1882) ; Coues, Check-list, 2nded. p. 112, n. 706 (1882) ; 

 Bchmv. Orn. Centralbl. 1882, p. 62; Sclat. List Vert. An. 8th ed. 

 p. 426 (part.) (1883) ; Coues, Key N. Am. B. 2ud ed. p. 689, n. 706 

 (1884); Cory, List B. W. Ind. \). 30 (1885); A. O. U. Code of 

 Nom. and Check-list, p. 129, d. 177 (1886) ; Lloyd, Auk, 1887, 

 p. 185 (W. Texas) ; Eidgiv. Man. N. Am. B. p. 119, n. 177 (1887) ; 

 Cory, Auk, 1888, p. 60 (Jamaica) ; id. B. W. Ind. p. 261 (1889) ; 

 Salv. Ibis, 1889, p. 377, 1890, p. 89 (Cozumel I.) ; Richm. Pr. U.S. 

 Nat. Mas. xvi. p. 531 (Rio Frio) (1893). 

 Dendrocycna autumnalis, Sclat. P. Z. S. 1880, p. 509; Ridgtv. Nom. 

 N Am. B. n. 599 (1881) ; Echniv. Vog. d. zool. Gdrt. p. 59 (1882) ; 

 B., B., ^- R. Water-Bivds N. Am. i. p. 481 (1884). 



Adult. Pileum cinnamon-brown, pale in front, on the occiput 

 passing into black, which is continued in a narrow stripe down the 

 nape ; sides of the head and upper part of the neck pale ochreous 

 ashy ; remainder of the neck, back, scapulars, jugulum, and breast 

 cinnamon-brown, the dorsal region more rusty ; rump, upper tail- 

 coverts, abdomen, flanks, and under wing-coverts deep black, 

 abruptly defined against the cinnamon of the breast ; crissum 

 white, spotted with black ; lesser wing-coverts ochreous olive, 

 middle coverts ash-colour, the greater and primary-coverts greyish 

 white, the lower feathers of the latter dusky ; quUls and tail deep 

 black, but the quills pure white basally : "iris brown; bUl coral- 

 red, orange above, nail of bUl bluish ; legs and feet pinkish white " 

 (Merrill). Total length about 19 inches, wing 9-20-9-70, tail 3, 

 culmen 1-90-2-15, tarsus 2-25-2-60, middle toe 2-30-2-70. 



Female. Similar to the male. 



Young. Much like the adult, but pattern of coloration much less 

 distinct and colour duller ; the reddish brown replaced by dingy 

 greyish tinged with rusty ; the belly and flanks greyish white, with 

 dusky cross-bars ; biU and feet dusky. 



Downy young. Above blackish brown, varied by large, sharply- 

 defined patches of sulphury buff — two on the sides of the back and 

 two on the sides of the rump : a sharply-defined superciliary stripe 

 and a band across the cheeks encircling the occiput safFrony buff; 

 a blackish-brown band from the cheeks to the nape ; lower parts 

 pale buffy yellow, the belly whitish. 



Hah. Central America, from Rio Grande Valley in Texas to 

 Panama. 



a-i. 6 2 ^d. sk. Brownsville, Texas, April, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



May (F. B. Armstrong). > 



k I m, c? 2 ad. sk. Hidalgo, Texas, April {F. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



' ' ■ ^ B.A.). . L 



n. Ad. sk. Tamaulipas, Mexico ( W. B. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Richardson). 



