'887.] Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. 9 2 *] 



Ocniscus virescens Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 308 (i860) 



(Cuba). — Gundl. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p, 349 (1866); ib. 



J. f. O. 1875, p. 307 (Cuba) ; ib. Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. VII, p. 



359 (1878) (Porto Rico). 

 Butorides brunnescens? March, Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1864, p. 64 



(Jamaica). 

 Ardea {Butorides') virescens Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. XI, p. 97 



(1867) (San Domingo). 



Common throughout the Bahamas and Antilles. 

 Ardea brunnescens "Gundl." 



Ardca brunnescens "Gundl. Mss." — Lemb. Aves Cuba, p. 84 (1850). — 



Reich. J. f. O. 1877, p. 255.— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 28 (1885). 

 Ocniscus brunnescens Cab. J. f. O. 1856, p. 344. — Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. 



Nat. Hist. VII, p. 308 (i860). — Gundl. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, 



I, p. 350 (1866) ; ib. J. f. O. 1875, p. 308. 

 Butorides brunnescens Baird, Bds. N. Am. p. 677 (1858) ; ib. Cat. Am. 



Bds. No. 494 (1859).— Gundl. Ann. N. Y. Lye. Nat. Hist. 1862, p. 



271.— Gray, Handl. Bds. Ill, p. 32 (1871). — Bd. Bwr. & Ridgw. 



Hist. N. Am. W. Bds. I, p. 49 (1884). 



Sp. Char. — Pilium and occipital crest greenish black, showing a green 

 gloss in the light; whole throat and neck rich rufous brown, show- 

 ing a tinge of orange brown on the chin ; back feathers slaty gray; 

 wing-coverts not margined with white, but showing slight brown- 

 ish edgings; otherwise resembling^, virescens. 



Length, 19.00; wing, 6.50; tail, 2.75; tarsus, 2.10; bill, 2.60. 



Habitat. Cuba. 



Ardea tricolor ruficollis (Gosse), 



iS 



Ardea leucogastra D'Orb. in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois. p. 200 



(1840). 

 Egretta ruficollis Gosse, Bds. Jam. p. 338 (1847). — Albrecht, J. f. O. 



1862, p. 205 (Jamaica). 

 Herodias ludoviciana Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 30S (i860) 



(Cuba). 

 Herodias ruficollis Gundl. J. f. O. 1S62, p. 83? (Cuba). 

 Demiegretta ludoviciana March, Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1864, p. 63 



(Jamaica). 

 Demiegretta ruficollis Gundl. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 348 (1866) ; 



ib. J. f. O. 1875, p. 303 (Cuba) ; ib. Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. VII, 



P- 35 6 (^S) (Porto Rico). 

 Ardea leucogastra var. leucoprymna Cory, Bds. Bahama I. p. 168 (1SS0). 

 Ardea ludoviciana A. & E. Newton, Handb. Jamaica, p. in (1881). 

 Ardea tricolor Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 28 (1885). 



