"5^6 RiDGWAY 071 Netv Birds from the Baliama Isla?ids. [July 



/O ^^9^ Adnlt male (type No. jfiSr4©2T U. S. Nat. Mus., Abaco I., Bahamas, 

 ' f Apr. 3, i8S6; Charles H. Townsend) : Wing, 2.65 ; tail, 2.50; culmen, .75; 



bill from nostril, .43; depth at base, .22; width, .22; tarsus, .88. Adult fe- 

 male (No. 108,496, same locality and date; Willard Nye): In plumage, 

 nearly intermediate between the same sex of G. rostratiis and G. coryi, 

 having more, and brighter, yellow on lower parts than the former, and 

 less than the latter; head, however, more as in G. rostralns, the distinct 

 yellow superciliary stripe of coryi being absent, and the fore part of 

 crown tinged with reddish brown. Wing, 2.35; tail, 2.50; culmen, .70; 

 bill from nostril, .42; depth at base, .22; width, .22; tarsus, .85. 



Three adult males and one female. 



This new species is dedicated to Captain Z. L. Tanner, com- 

 mander of the 'Albatross,' to whom the naturalists accompanying 

 the expedition are indebted for facilities kindly extended to them 

 in the prosecution of their work. 



3. Centurus nyeanus, sp. nov. 



Sp. Char. — Similar to C. supcrciliarh (Temm.) of Cuba, but much 

 smaller, the white bars of upper parts and gray of lower parts almost 

 entirely devoid of yellow tinge, red of belly and black superciliary spot 

 more restricted, and outer webs of middle tail-feathers without spots. 



Adult male (type No. 107,996, U. S. Nat. Mus., Wattling's I., Bahamas, 

 March 5, 18S6; Willard Nye) : Frontlet bright scarlet, paler anteriorly 

 and along lo^wer edge; forehead (for about .30 of an inch back from base 

 of culmen), lores, suborbital region, and auriculars white, the latter with 

 a faint buffy-grayish tinge ; crown, occiput and hind-neck bright crimson- 

 scarlet, lighter posteriorly; back, scapulars, and rump barred with black 

 and dull white, the two colors in about equal amount, the bars of each 

 averaging about .08 of an inch in width ; wing-coverts more broadly 

 barred, with black and pure white ; alul^ and primary coverts uniform 

 black, the exterior feather of the former with some white along edge ; pri- 

 maries black, irregularly spotted with white toward base, and more or less 

 broadly tipped with white'; upper tail-coverts white, rather distantly and 

 irregularly barred with black; tail black, the inner webs of intermedise 

 marked with oblique quadrate spots of white, the outer webs with an irreg- 

 ularly wedge-shaped streak of white on basal half (chiefly concealed by 

 coverts), exterior pair barred or tranversely spotted with white on terminal 

 portion. Chin and upper part of throat grayish bufty-white, gradually 

 deepening into light buffy-grayish on lower throat; fore -neck, sides of 

 neck, and chest deeper grayish, this color assuming decidedly more 

 of a huffy tinge on the breast, upper part of belly, and on flanks; central 

 lower part of belly dull scarlet, the adjacent portions, including lower 

 tail-coverts, dingy white, marked with V-shaped bars of blackish. Bill 

 entirely black ; feet dusky. Wing, 5.20; tail, 4.00; culmen, 1.50; tarsus, .92. 



This handsome new species is dedicated to Mr. Willard Nye, 

 collector of the imiquc tv])e. 



