446 ANATID^. 



Nomencl. Av. p. 103 (1854) (Mexico") : Bp. Compt. Rend, xliii. 

 p. 652, n. 160 (1856) ; Cab. ^ Gimdl. J. f. O. 1857, p. 230 (Cuba) ; 

 £aird, £. N. Am. p. 811 (1858) ; id. Cat. N. Am. B. d. 609 

 (1859); Brijant, Pr. Boat. Soc. Nat. Hist. vii. p. 122 (1859) 

 (Babamas) ; Sclat. ^- Salv. Ibis, 1859, pp. 5, 232 (eggs, Guatemala) ; 

 Sclat. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 393 (Oaxaca) ; Heenn. P. R. R. Rep. x. 

 pt. vi. p. 70 (1859) (California) ; ? Taylor, Ibis, 1860, p. 315 (Hon- 

 duras) ; Gundl. J.f. O. 1861, p. 346 (Cuba); Anonymous, Ibis, 

 1862, p. 289 (Martinica) : Ross, Canad. Nat. vii. p. 153 (Slave 

 Lake) (1862) ; id. Nat. Hist. Rev. (2) i. p. 288 (1862) ; Hayd. Rep. 



1862, p. 176 ; Verr. Pr. Ess. Inst. iii. p. 159 (1862) ; Blakist. Ibis, 



1863, p. 150 (Hudson's Bav) ; Gundl. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, 

 1. p. 390 (1866) ; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii. (1866) p. 298 

 (LongM.) (1867); Coues, Pr. Rss. Inst. v. p. 201 (1868); Eyt. 

 Syn. Anat. p. 130 (1869); Stev. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr. p. 466 (1870) ; 

 G. R. Gr. Hand-list, iii. p. 90, n. 10721 (1871) ; Coue.% Key, p. 295 

 (1872) ; id. Check-list, n. 519 (1873) ; Sclat. Sr Salv. No^nencl. Av. 

 Neotrop. p. 131 (1873) ; Lawr. Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 315 

 (1874) (Mexico) ; Beane, Amer. Nat. viii. p. 433 (1874) (Cape Cod, 

 Mass.) ; Coues, B. N.-West, p. 583 (1874) ; Gundl. J.f. O. 1874, 

 p. 314 (Porto Eico), 1875, p. 384 (Cuba) ; Sclat. Sr Salv. P. Z. S. 

 1876, pp. 403, 411 ; Gundl. Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. vii. p. 407 

 (1878) (Porto Rico) ; id. J.f. O. 1878, pp. 162, 191 ; Coues, Am. 

 Nat. xii. p. 123, fig. of tail-feathers (1878) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1880, 

 p. 530; Cory, B. Bahama Isl. p. 189 (1880); A. Sf E. Newt. 

 Handb. Jam. p. 113 (1881) ; Ridgic. Norn. N. Am. B. n. 634 

 (1881) ; Forbes, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 456 (no bulla ossea) ; Coues,Check- 

 list, 2nd ed. p. 117, n. 741 (1882) ; id. Key N. Am. B. 2nd ed. 

 p. 715, n. 741 (1884) ; B., B., ^ R. Water-B. N. Am. ii. p. 104 

 (1884) ; Cory, List B. W. Ind. p. 31 (1885) ; Nehrl. J. f. O. 

 1885, p. 148; Wells, List B. Grenada, p. 10 (1886) ; A. O. U. 

 Check-list N. Am. B. p. 124, n. 167 (1886) ; Zeledon, An. Mus. 

 Nac. Rep. Costa Rica, 1887, p. 132 (Cat. Av. Costa Rica, p. 132, 

 n. 688, 1887) ; Ridyw. Man. N. Am. B. p. 113, n. 167 (1887) ; Cory, 

 Auk, 1888, p. 68; id. B. W. Ind. p. 269 (1889); Feild. Ibis, 1889, 

 p. 500 (Barbados) ; Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 47 (1889) ; Scott, Auk, 

 1891, p. 364 (Jamaica) ; Hartert, Kat. Vogelsamml. p. 234 (1891) ; 

 Hatch, B. of Minnes. p. 71 (1892) ; Beristain 4" Laurencio, Mem. 

 y Rev. Soc. Cient. vii. p. 209, n. 62 (1893). 



Biziura rubida, Schley. Mus. P.-B., Anseres, p. 11 (1866) ; Gieb. 



Thes. Orn. i. p. 468 (1872). 

 Erismatura ferruginea, Frantz. {nee G. R. Gr.) J.f. 0. 1869, p. 378 



(Costa Rica). 

 Erismatura domiuica, Aiken {nee Linn.), Pr. Bost. Soc. xv. p. 210 



(1872) (Colorado ?). 



Adult male. Upper part of the head, down to under the eyes, and 

 upper half of the nape deep black, cheeks and chin pure white ; rest 

 of the neck, back, scapulars, upper tail-coverts, sides, and flanks rich 

 chestnut-rufous, deeper on the upper breast ; lower parts silvery 

 white on the surface or edges of the feathers, while the concealed 

 portions of the same are brownish grey, showing through more or 

 less ; under tail-coverts entirely white to the roots of the feathers ; 

 wing-coverts, lower back, and rump dusky greyish brown, minutely 

 mottled with paler ; remiges dull brownish ; under wing-coverts 

 .and axillaries dull grey, the latter edged with white ; rectrices 



