1887.] Cory on tke Bird* of the West Indies 22^ 



Female: — Resembles the male; the white of the head and throal 

 replaced hy tawny, without black edging. 



Length, 8.50; wing, 4.50; tail, 2.50; tarsus. 1 ; bill, .52. 



Habitat. Bahamas, Haiti, San Domingo, Jamaica, St. Croix, 

 and Antigua. 



The forms represented in the different islands vary considera- 

 bly, and it is possible that they represent good geographical races. 

 The Bahama bird differs from that found in Florida in having 

 heavy chestnut stripings on the side much broader than in the 

 Florida birds. The black on the throat is more restricted ; the 

 lower throat showing considerable chestnut, separating the black 

 from the upper breast ; the red on the back is paler. The feath- 

 ers on the underparts are very heavily banded with black, about 

 equalling some specimens of ftoridanus in this respect, but the 

 underparts are never mottled gray as in some specimens of citba- 

 nensis. The Bahama bird differs even more from that found in 

 San Domingo, which has the underparts covered with narrow 

 black arrow-shaped markings, somewhat obsolete in the female ; 

 the male having a patch of black on the throat succeeded by pale 

 chestnut ; the general chestnut coloring is paler than in the Baha- 

 ma bird. 



Genus Eupsychortyx Gould. 



Eupsychortyx Gould, Mon. Odontophorinae.p. 15-16, 1850. Type, Tetrao 

 cristatus Linn. 



Eupsychortyx sonninii (Temm.). 



Perdix sonninii Temm. Pig. et Gall. Ill, p. 451 (1S15) ; ib. PI. Col. 75 



(1820-29). 

 Eupsyckortyx sonnimi Newton, Ibis. 1860, p. 308 (St. Thomas). — Cas- 



sin, Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. i860, p. 37S (St. Thomas).— Cory, 



Revised List Bds. W. 1. p. 24 (1885). 

 Oftyx sonninii Nkwton (Reinhardt), Ibis, 1S61, p. 114 (St. Thomas). 



Sp. Char. Male: — Face dull white; head crested ; feathers of the crest dull 

 hull' brown : throat and superciliary stripe passing down the sides of 

 the neck dull brownish red ; sides of the neck mottled with black 

 and white; upper back mottled with reddish brown, bull", andblack; 

 rest of upper surface marked with chestnut, black, and gray, mar- 

 gined with bull'; tail slaty dotted and marked with bull' and dark 

 brown; primaries brown; chest grayish, mottled with brown; rest 



