72 A. RiDGWAY o/i Nc-v Birds from the Bahama Islands. [ J"ly 



bands nearly as broad as the brown interspaces. Male: Wing, 4.25; 

 tail, 2.20; culnien, .35; tarsus, .75. Female: Wing, 4.05; tail, 1.90; cul- 

 men, .35 ; tarsus, .70. (Types, Nos. 49,678. '•(?," and 50,765, " $ ," U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., Socorro I. ; Col. A. J. Gra3'son, collector.) 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW GENUS OF OCEANITID.^. 



BV ROBKKT RIDGWAY. 



Pealea, gen. nov. 



Char. — Similar to Ocea?tites Keys. & Bias., but claws very broad, flat, 

 and blunt (as in Pelagodroma Reich.), the tarsus exceeding the middle 

 toe with claw by the length of the culmen (to nasal tube), and the first 

 quill equal to or longer than the third. 



Type, Thalassidroma liueata Peale. 



The type-species is colored above much like Oceanifcs oceanicus, but very 

 differently beneath, the belly and flanks being white marked with wedge- 

 shaped stripes of dusky. Some of the under wing-coverts are likewise 

 white, as is also the basal pcirtion of the rectrices. The webs of the feet 

 are wholly dusky. The tarsi are booted, as in Oceanitcs. 



The genus is named in honor of Mr. Titian R. Peale, the very accom- 

 plished naturalist of the United States E.xploring Expedition under Com- 

 modore Wilkes. 



DESCRIPTION OF FOUR NEW SPECIES OF BIRDS 

 FROM TPIE BAHAMA ISLANDS.* 



BY ROBERT RIDG\VAY. 

 I. Geothlypis coryi, sp. nov. 



Sp. Char. — In plumage much resembling G. beldingi, nobis (from 

 Lower California), but yellow of lower parts with less of an orange tint, 

 the sides and upper parts without any olive-brown tinge, the flanks bright 

 greenish yellow, and the yellow posterior border to the black ' mask ' much 

 narrower, and less purely yellow. Form very different, the bill about 

 twice as large, and of different shape. Female very different from that of 

 any other known species, being bright olive-green above and entirely pure 



* Published with permission of the Director of the National Museum. 



