iSSS.J Cory oh the Birch of the West Indies. ^(^ 



Chen caerulescens (Linn.). "^ 



Anas caerulescens Linn. Syst. Nat. I, loth ed. p. 124 (175S) ; t'lf. 12th ed. 



p. 198 (1766). 

 C/iefi caerulescens Gundl. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 3S7 (1S66) ; ib. 



J. f. O. 1875, p, 374 (Cuba).— Cory, List. Bds. W. I. p. 30 (18S5). 

 Anscr caerulescens Bryant, Pr. Bost. See. Nat. Hist. XL p. 70 (1867) 



(Bahamas). 



Recorded from the Bahamas and Cuba. Possibly not sepa- 

 rable from the preceding species, of which it may prove to be a 

 race. 



Genus Branta Scopoli. 

 Branta Scopoli, Ann. i Hist. Nat. p. 67, 1769. 



Branta canadensis (Linn.). 



Anas canadensis Linn. Syst. Nat. L P- 19S (1766). 



Branta canadensis Bannister, Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phiia. 1870, p. 131. 

 Bernicla canadensis A. & E. Newton, Handb. Jamaica, p. 112 (18S1). — 

 Cory, Revised List Bds. W. L p. 30^(4886). 



Recorded from Jamaica. 



Genus Dendrocygna Swains. 

 Dendrocygna Swainson, Classif. Birds, H, p. 365, 1837. 



Dendrocygna arborea (Linn.). »^ 



Anas arborea Linn. Syst. Nat. I, p. 207 (1766). — Gmel. Syst. Nat. I, 

 p. 540 (1788).— ViEiLL. Enc. Meth. p. 141 (1823).— D'Orb. in La 

 Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, I, p. 291 (1840).— Sundev. Oefv. K. Vet. 

 Akad. For. 1869, p. 603. 



Atiasjacquini Gmki.. Syst. Nat. I, p. 536 (1788). 



Dendrocygna arborea Eyton, Mon. Anat. p. no (183S). — Gosse, Bds. 

 Jam. p. 395 (1847).— Cab. J. f. O. 1857, P- 227.— A. & E. Newton, 

 Ibis, 1859, P- 366.— Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 122 

 (1859); ih. XI, p. 70 (1866).— Albrecht, J. f. O. 1862, p. 206.— 

 March, Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phiia. 1864, p. 70.— Gundl. Repert. 

 Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 387 (1866); ib. Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. 

 VIL p. 400 (187S).— ScL. & Salv. p. Z. S. 1876, p. 375.— Cory, 

 Bds. Bahama I. p. 183 (1880).— A. &. E. Newton, Handb. Jamaica, 

 p. 112 (1881).— Cory, Bds. Haiti & San Domingo, p. 166 (1885); 

 ih. List Bds. W. I. p. 30 (1885).— Bd. Bwr. & Ridgw. Hist. N. Am. 

 W. Bds. I, p. 480 (1884). 



