258 Woies on some Cuban Birds^ 



the wing-coverts marked with roundish white spots near their ends; 

 tail umber brown crossed with three imperfect narrow bars of dull 

 rufous white ; primaries dark umber brown with five or six whitish 

 spots on the outer webs ; throat, and a line over the eye, fulvous grey ; 

 sides of the neck intermixed with greyish white; under plumage grey 

 intermixed with pale rufous, each feather marked down the centre with 

 a dark brown streak ; upper mandible horn color, whitish along the 

 ridge, the lower is yellowish white ; legs brownish yellow. 



Another male is of a brighter rufous brown on the upper plumage, 

 and more rufous on the breast. 



Length 8 in.; wing 5| ; tail Z\\ tarsus If. 



The female sent does not differ materially from the male, it 

 is nearly white on the breast and abdomen, with the streaks 

 fewer, narrower, and lighter in color. 



The figures given in the Ibis (referred to at the head of this 

 article) of the birds brought from St. Croix by Messrs. A. and 

 E. I*^ewton, strike me as so different from the Cuban birds, 

 that I consider them to be distinct species ; the round white 

 spots on the back and wing-coverts, which are so conspicuous 

 a character in the Cuban bird, are not at all apparent in the 

 figures, and the narrow transverse waving lines on the head, 

 neck, and back, as portrayed in the figures of the St. Croix 

 birds, are not perceptible in the Cuban ; on the contrary, the 

 dark markings are large, rather obscure, and longitudinal ; the 

 tail of the St. Croix bird appears to be closely and distinctly 

 barred, whereas, in the specimens before me, the bars on the 

 tail are few, and in the form of almost obsolete spots. 



The figures in the Ibis having every appearance of being 

 accurately drawn, I have no hesitation in pronouncing the St. 

 Croix bird to be distinct from the Cuban ; the latter is assuredly 

 the true nudijpes^ as it agrees with Latham's description, in 

 which he distinctly mentions the " white spots on the wing- 

 coverts." Latham's account is no doubt accurately compiled. 

 I propose for the St. Croix bird the specific name of Newioni^ 

 in compliment to Alfred Newton, Esq. 



