62 Cory o)i the Birds of the West Indies. [January 



Genus Dafila Steph. 

 Ddfila Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool. XII, p. 126, 1S24. 



Dafila bahamensis (Linn.). ^' 



Anas biihameiisis LiNX. Sjst. Nat. I, p. 199 (1766).— Gmel. Sjst. Nat. I, 

 p. 516 (1788).— Max. Beitr. p. 925 (1831).— Sundev. Oefv. K Vet. 

 Akad. For. 1869, p. 591. 



Anas rubirosiKisYiKii.1.. Nouv. Diet. V, p. 108 (1816). 



Aftas ilathera ViEiLL. Enc. Meth. p. 152 (1823). 



Atias urophasianus Vig. Zool. Journ. IV, p. 357 (1829). 



Phasianurus vigorsii V^ AG'L. Isis, 1832, p. 1235. 



Anas fimbriata Merrem, Ersch u. Gruber's Ency. sect. i,XXXV, p. 35. 



Dafila urophasiafius Eyton, Men. Anat. p. 112 (183S). 



Peocilonetta bahamensis Eyton, Mon. Anat. p. 116 (183S). — Gosse, Bds. 

 Jam. p. 40S (1847).— ScL. P. Z. S. i860, p. 389.— Abbott, Ibis, 

 1861, p. 160. — Albrecht, J. f. O. 1862, p. 207. — March, Pr. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. Phila. 1864, p. 71. — Gundl. J. f. O. 1874, p. 314; ib. Anal. 

 Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. VII, p. 403 (1878) ; ib. J. f. O. 1881, p. 400. 



Dafila bahamensis Hartl. Ind. Az. p. 27 (1847). — Cab. in Schomb. 

 Guian. Ill, p. 763 (1848).— Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1S76, p. 393.— 

 Lawr. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. I, p. 487 (1878).— A. & E. Newton, 

 Handb. Jamaica, p. 113 (1881). — Cory, Bds. Bahama I. p. 1S5 

 (1880) ; ib. Bds. Haiti & San Domingo, p. 167 (1885) ; ib. List Bds. 

 W. I. p. 31 (1885). 



Sp. Char. Male: — General plumage tawny, mottled and streaked with 

 brown; wings banded with lustrous green, black and tawny, in the 

 order given; top of head and nape brown, finely mottled with dark 

 brown ; rest of head and throat white ; a triangular patch on each 

 side of the upper mandible lake red ; tail tawny, becoming pale at 

 the tip; legs black. 



Length, 19.00; wing, 8.00; tail, 4.75; tarsus, 1.25; bill, 1.95. 

 Habitat. Bahamas and Antilles. 



Dafila acuta (Linn.). ^ 



Anas acuta Linn. Syst. Nat. I, p. 202 (1766). — Lemb. Aves Cuba, p. 113 



(1850). 

 Dafila acuta Gosse, Bds. Jam. p. 408 (1847). — Cab. J. f. O. 1857, p. 227 



(Cuba).— Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 308 (i860)' 



(Cuba). — Albrecht, J. f O. 1862, p. 207 (Jamaica). — March, Pr. 



Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1864, p. 71 (Jamaica).— Gundl. Repert. 



Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 3S8 (i86o) ; ib. J. f. O. 1875, p. 378 (Cuba) ; 



ib. Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. VII, p. 402 (1878) (Porto Rico).— 



A. & E. Newton, Handb. Jamaica, p. 113 (18S1). — Cory, List Bds. 



W. I. p. 31 (1885). 



Recorded from Cuba, Jamaica, and Porto Rico. 



