23. DENDROCYCNA. 103 



(1847) ; Rchnb. Syn. Av., Novitice, Natatores, t. 107. f. 2.3.59 {ex 

 Echo.) (1850) ; id. Av. Syst. Nat. p. x (1852) ; Baird, Slansb. Rep. 

 p. 334 (1852) ; Bj). Compt. Itend. xliii. p. 649, n. 56 (18.56) ; Cab. 

 J.f. O. 1857, p. 227 ; A. ^- E. Newt. Ibis, 1859, p. 366 (St. Croix, 

 ■W'ith fig. of the trachea) ; Bryant, Pi: Bost. Soc. N. H. vii. p. 122 

 (Bahamas) (1859); Albr. J.f. O. 18G2, p. 206; Sclat. P. Z. S. 

 1864, p. 300 (Jamaica) ; March, Pr. Ac. Philad. 1864, p. 70 : Bryant, 

 Pr. Bust. Soc. N. H. xi. p. 78 (Inagua) (1866) ; Schley. Mus. P.-B., 

 Anseres, p. 84 (1866) ; Gutidl. Pep. Fis.-Nat. Cuba, i. p. 387 

 (1866); Ei/t. Syn. Anat. Y>- 62 (1869); Peh. Orn. Bras. p. 459 

 (1870); G. R. Gr. Ha^id-list, iii. p. 79, n. 10614 (1871) ; Gu7idl. 

 J.f. O. 1871, p. 273 (?); Bodin. J.f. 0. 1872, p. 72 (breeding) ; 

 Sclat. S,- Salv. Nomencl. Ar. Neotrop. p. 129 (1873) ; Coues, Birds 

 N.- West, p. 558 (1874) ; Gundl.J.f. 0. 1874, p. 314 (Porto Rico), 

 1875, p. 375 (Cuba) ; Gieb. Thes. Orn. ii. p. 30 (1875) ; Sclat. l<f 

 Salv. P. Z. S. 1876, p. 375 ; Gundl. An. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. vii. 

 p. 400 (1878) ; id. J.f. O. 1878, pp. 162, 190 (Porto Ilico) ; Con/, 

 B. Baha7)ia I. p. 183 (1880) ; A. ^- E. Newt. Handb. Jam. p. li2 

 (1881) ; Rchmv. Orn. Centralbl. 1882, p. 22 ; Salv. Cat. B. Strickl. 

 Coll. p. 530 (1882) ; Sclat. List Vert. An. 8th ed. p. 426 (1883) ; 

 Con/, B. Haiti and San Domingo, p. 166 (1885) ; Ridyw. Man. N. 

 Am. B. p. 119 (1887) ; Cory, Auk, 1888, p. 59; Tristr. Cat. Coll. 

 B. p. 50 (.Tamaica), p. 270 (Domingo) (1889) ; Cory, B. W. Ind. 

 p. 260 (1889) ; Sharpe, Cat. Ost. Spec. Coll. Sury. iii. p. 298 (1891). 



Dendrocygnus arborea, Brew. Pr. Bost. Soc. N. H. vii. p. 308 (I860). 



? Dendrocygna autumnalis, Taylor, Ibis, 1864, p. 172 (Porto Rico). 



Dendrocycna arborea, Sclat. P. Z. S. 1880, p. 509 ; Rchnw. Viiy. d. 

 zool. Giirt. p. 59 (1882) : B., B., ^-R. Water-Birds N. Am. i. p. 480 

 (note) (1884). 



Adult. Anterior half of the crown reddish brown, shading into 

 black on the occiput, whence a black band runs down along the 

 nape ; sides of the head and of the neck dull grejish, indistinctly 

 mottled with white ; throat white ; round the lower neck a kind of 

 collar, interrupted behind, formed by white feathers, edged with 

 black ; upper back, .scapulars, and tertials brown, with tawny edges 

 to the feathers ; rump and upper tail-coverts black ; breast reddish 

 brown, with indistinct whitish spots ; lower down the breast has 

 the feathers white along the middle, blackish on the edges ; abdomen 

 and under tail-coverts white, thickly covered with round black 

 spots ; feathers of the sides white in the middle and broadly edged 

 and even banded with black ; wing-coverts pale brown, with paler 

 edges, the outermost and also the greater ones greyish, each with a 

 black subapieal spot ; quills grey, blackish towards the tip, the 

 under surface uniform blackish brown ; under wing-coverts black, 

 the smaller ones with narrow white stripes ; tail dark brown ; legs 

 and bill black. Total length about 22 inches, wing 10-5, tail 3-8, 

 culmen 2'1, tarsus 2-7. 



Female somewhat smaller. 



Young in down. Upper parts brown, lower parts white ; a white 

 band round the occiput ; ear-coverts brown ; four white spots, two 

 on the sides of the back and two on the sides of the rump. 



Hab. Bahamas and Antilles. 



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