440 ANATID^. 



Nomonyx dominica, Coues, Check-list N. Am. B. 2nd ed. p. 117, 

 n. 742 (1882) ; id. Key N. Am. B. 2nd ed. p, 715, n. 742 (1884). 



Adult male. Head black ; neck and breast bright rusty cinnamon, 

 shading into reddish white on the lower parts ; feathers of the back, 

 scapulars, and feathers of the flanks broadly centred with black, 

 the edges cinnamon ; wings brown, with a white band or speculum 

 formed by the tips of the anterior wing-coverts and by the basal 

 portion of the anterior secondaries ; some of the median wing- 

 coverts edged with rusty cinnamon ; under wing-coverts brown, 

 with narrow whitish edges ; tail black : " bill blue ; nail, tip of both 

 mandibles, and naked skin on chin black ; remainder of the lower 

 mandible reddish white ; outer aspect of tarsus and two outer toes 

 dark brown or black, the inner side of the tarsus, inner toe, and 

 membranes pale bi'own, spotted with black ; iris dark brown ; 

 naked skin round the eyes bluish " (GMnrf?af7i). Total length 

 about 15 inches, wing 5"7, tail 4, culmen 1'26, tarsus 1. 



Female. Upper parts brown ; pileum uniform ; a narrow super- 

 ciliary stripe buff; a broader band, also buff colour, underneath the 

 eyes from the bill to the occiput ; two dark bands from the bill to 

 occiput, one through the eyes, the other lower down, starting from 

 the gape ; throat buff ; neck buff mottled with brown ; feathers of 

 the breast and flanks centred with brown, the edges buff ; abdomen 

 buff, the brown bases of the feathers more or less showing through ; 

 feathers of the back more or less edged and spotted with buff ; 

 wings brown ; wiug-specuium white as in the male ;■ tail blackish : 

 " bill horn-brown, with the tip black " (Gundlach). Size somewhat 

 smaller than the male. 



Young, liesembles the female, but there are no distinct brown 

 centres to the feathers of the breast and flanks, and the whole of 

 the lower parts have the bases of the feathers much paler brown. 



Young in doivn. Upper parts brown, with four white patches, 

 two on the sides of the back, behind the wings, and two on the 

 sides of the rump ; a whitish band on the posterior edge of the 

 -wings ; a whitish superciliary stripe, and a similar one below the 

 eyes ; a brown band through the eyes, and another across the 

 lower part of the cheeks ; lower parts whitish. 



Bab. Tropical America in general, including the West Indies, 

 south to Chili and the Argentine Republic ; accidental in Eastern 

 North America (Wisconsin and Lake Champlain). M 



a. 2 ad. sk. Jamaica. R. Redman, Esq. [P.]. fl 



b. c? jiiv. st. Barbados. P. Gosse, Esq. [C^ 



c. (5 imm. sk. Guatemala. Salvin-Godman Coll 



d. Juv. sk. Veragiia (Arce), Salvin-Godman Coll. 



e. Ad. St. S. America. Old Coll. 

 f,g. c? $ ad. St. Cayenne. Purchased. 

 h. d ad. St. Rio Negro. Purchased. 



i. 5 ad. sk. Sarayacu, Ecuador (Buckley). Salvin-Godman Coll 



k. (S ad. sk. Lake Titacaca, Bolivia. Eyton Coll. 



I. S ad. sk. Coast of Brazil. Dr. W. Barker [P.]. 



m. Sternum, with Jamaica. P. Gosse, Esq. [P.]. 

 shoulder-girdle. 



