CO Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. [January 



the under tail-coverts clear buff; under wing-coverts grey, thickly 

 barred with huffy white; quills blackish, shaded with slaty grey 

 above, the secondaries entirely of this colour, the under surface 

 greyish white, with black bars and tips, less conspicuous on the 

 upper surface; tail alternately crossed with two bands of black 

 above, with a broad intermediate band of ashy grey between, nar- 

 rowly tipped with ashv grey, barred with ochraceous buff and black 

 below, the bars very broad. Total length 17 inches, culmen 1-6, 

 wing 1 1-7, tail 7-5, tarsus 1-4. 



"Adult Male: — A little smaller than the female. Total length 16 

 inches, culmen 1-55, wing 11, tail 7-5, tarsus 1-4." (Siiarpe, 1. c; 



I have quoted Mr. Sharpe's admirable description of this 

 species in full ; as the scries of specimens at my command is 

 totally inadequate to enable me to properh describe the various 

 stages of plumage. 



The bird is recorded from Grenada, and is probably" accidental 

 in the Antilles. 



Genus Polyborus Vieill. 



Polyborus VlElLLOT, Analyse, p. 22. 1S16. 



Polyborus cheriway (jAcq.). ' 



Falco cheii-vay jACQj Beitr. p. 17. tab. 4 (17841. 



Polyborus vulgaris U'Orb. inLaSagra's Hist Nat. Cuba. Ois. p. 9 | 1S40). 



—Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII. p. 306 ( 1S60) (Cuba). 

 Polyborus tharus Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VIII, p. 306 (i860) 



(Cuba).— Gi-ndl. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba. I, p. 221 (1S65). 

 Polyborus cAeriway BREWER, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. MIL p. 306 ( rS6o) 



(Cuba).— Gundl. J. f. O. 1871. p. 284 1 Cuba).— Cory. List Bds. 



W. I. p. 23 (1S85). 

 Polvborus brasilieusis Brewer. Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 306 (i860) 



(Cuba). 

 Polyborus auclitboui Gundl. J. f. O. 1S71, p. 357 (Cuba) (?). 

 Accidental in Cuba. 



Family CATHARTID^. 



Genus Cathartes Illiger. 

 Caihartes Illiger, Prodr. p. 236, 1811. 



Cathartes aura (Linn.). / 



Vultur aura Linn. Syst. Nat. I, p. S6 (1758). 



Cathartes aura D'Orb. in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois. p. 4 (1840).— 



