1885.] PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 623 



among tbe shady coffee plautatious of the mountains. The nest is un- 

 known here." 



8. "Cliaetura." 



No specimen sent. 



9. Triugoides macularius (Linn.). 

 ■HLO. Sterna hirundo, Linn. 



Ceryle stictipennis. Sp. nov. 



31ale. — The upper plumage is ashy-blue, with a broad pure white 

 band across the hind neck, connecting with the white of the throat j 

 lores black ; a spot of white anterior to the eye, and another of the same 

 color below it; the upper tail-coverts are colored like the back, and are 

 barred on both webs with white; the two middle tail feathers are also 

 colored like the back; the shafts are black, bordered narrowly on each 

 side with deep black ; they are conspicuously marked with triangular- 

 shaped white spots on the middle of each web, these are nine in number 

 on each side; the other tail feathers are black, with their outer edges 

 colored like the back, and having pure white spots rounded in form on 

 each web, those on the inner webs are much the largest; all the tail 

 feathers are tii^ped with white ; the quills are black, largely white on 

 their inner webs and marked on the primaries with quadrate white 

 spots on the outer ones, rather far apart; the secondaries have also small 

 white spots on their outer webs, and on the inner webs large round 

 spots, the outer webs are margined with ashy-blue ; the tertiaries are 

 largely ash-blue on their outer webs, spotted and barred with white, 

 theinuer webs are brownish-black and marked with large spots of white ; 

 the wing-coverts are like the back in color, the larger ones are sparsely 

 marked with small white spots ; the scapulars are narrowly barred with 

 white; the under wing-coverts are white, largely intermixed with cinna- 

 mon color; the throat is white; the lower part of the neck, the breast, 

 and the abdomen are of a very dark cinnamon color; the lower part of 

 the abdomen, the flanks, crissum and under tail-coverts are white, 

 closely spotted and barred with rather dull ashy- blue; the tarsi and toes 

 are dark brown ; the bill is black, with the basal half of the under mand- 

 ible yellow. 



Length, fresh, 17 inches; wing, 7f; tail, 5^; bill, 3. 



Habitat. — Guadeloupe, West Indies. 



Type in my collection. 



Female. — The color above is similar to that of the male, but it has 

 the entire back and wings marked sparsely with small white spots ; in 

 the markings on the head, wings, and tail they are much alike ; it has 

 the white throat and band on the hind neck as in the male; across the 

 lower part of the throat and upper part of the breast there is a broad 

 band of ashy-blue, minutely freckled with white ; this band is bordered 

 narrowly below with white ; the entire under plumage besides, and the 

 under wing-coverts are deep cinnamon. 



