68 CoKV OH the Birds of the West Indies. [January 



Erismatura rubida (Wils.). i/ 



Amis ritbida Wils. Am. Orn. VIII, pp. 12S-130 (1814). 



Erismatura spinosa GosSE, Bds. Jam. p. 404 (1847). — Albkecht, J. f. O. 



1S62, p. 207 (Jamaica). 

 Fiiligiila rubida Lemb. Aves Cuba, p. nS (1S50). 

 Erismatura rubida Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 122 (1859) 



(^Bahamas). — Gundl. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 390 (iS66) ; 



ib. J. f. O. 1874, p. 314 (Porto Rico) ; ib. 1875, p. 384 (Cuba) ; ib. 



Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. VII, p. 407 (187S) (Porto Rico). — Louy, 



Bds. Bahama I. p. 189 (18S0). — A. & E. Newton, Handb. Jamaica, 



p. 113 (1881).— Cory, List Bds. \V. I. p. 31 (1S85).— Wells, List 



Bds. Grenada, p. 10 (1886). 



OccLUs in winter in the West Indies ; records tVom Porto Rico, 

 Ciii)a, [;iniaica, Grenada, and tiie Balianias. 



Genus Nomonyx Ridgw. 

 Nomonyx Ridgway, Pr. U. S. Nat. iMus. II, p. 15, Marcli 27, iSSo. 



Nomonyx dominicus (Linn.). 



Anas dominica Linn. Svst. Nat. I, p. 201 (1766). — Sundev. Oefv. K. Vet. 



Akad. For. 1869. p. 603 (Porto Rico). 

 Anas spinosd? D'Okb. in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois. p. 297 (1840).^ 

 Erismatura dominica A. & E. Newton, Ibis, 1859, P- 3^7 (St. Croi.\) (.?). 



— Gundl. Report. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 391 (1S66) ; ib. J. f. O. 



1S74, p. 314 (Porto Rico); ib. 1875, p. 314 (Cuba); ib. Anal. Soc. 



Esp. Hist. Nat. VII, p. 408 (187S) (Porto Rico). 

 Dcndrocygnus spinosa Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 308 (i860) 



(Cuba). 

 Nomonyx dominicus Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 31 (1885). 



Sp. Char. Male: — Top of liead brownish black; a stripe of brown through 

 the eje, and a parallel stripe of the same color below, separated by 

 a narrow stripe of tawnj ; a narrow tawny superciliary stripe ; 

 throat tawny brown, the feathers marked with chestnut, lieaviest on 

 the lower part; underparts dull white, marked with yellowish 

 brown; feathers of the back having the centres black, and heavily 

 edged with chestnut; quills and tail dark brown ; secondaries white, 

 tipped with brown, forming a large white patch on the wing. In 

 some plumages the male is described as having the entire head 

 black. 



The female difters from the male in lacking the chestnut marking 

 on the upper parts, which is replaced by pale brown, bill dark 

 brown, almost black. 



Length, 12.00; wing, 5.30; tail 3.10; tarsus, 90; bill; 1.30. 



Habitat. Antilles. 



