i8SS.] Cory oti the Birch of Ihc Wat Indies. 7 7 



Siila pisca/or Gosse. Bds. Jam. p. 41S (1S47). — A. i-^' E. Newtox, Handb 

 Jamaica, p. 112 (iSSi).— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 32 (1SS5).— 

 Wells, List Bds. Grenada, p. 11 (1SS6). 



Dviporus hernandezi G\5^V)\^. }A. O. 1S7S, p. 29S (Cuba). 



Dysporus piscator Gundl. J. f. O. 1S81. p. 401 (Cuba). 



Sp. Char. Adult Male: — General plumage white, showing a buft" tinge on 

 the head and neck; shafts of the tail-feathers pale yellow; remiges 

 and most of the wing-coverts slaty gray, showing an ash tinge; feet 

 reddish. 



Toiiiig in first plmnagc: — General pkrnage gravish brown above; dull 

 gray beneath, sometimes whitish : plumage \erv \ ariable. 



Length, 28-00; wing, 14.50; tail. S.oo; tarsus, 2.10; bill, 3.30. 



Habitat. West Indies. 



Family PHAETIIONTID.^. 

 Genus Phaethon Linn. 



Phaethon Linn.eus, Syst. Nat. 1756; ib. T, p. 134, 175S. 



Phaethon flavirostris Brandt. '<^^ 



Phaethon flavirostris Br.\ndt, Bull. Soc. Acad. St. Petersb. IL p. 349 

 C1S37).— Lawr. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. I, p. 65 (1878) (Dominica).— 

 ib. p. 240 (Barbuda); ib. p. 359 (Martinique). — Cory, Bds. Baha- 

 ma I. p. 204 (1880) ; ib. Bds. Haiti & San Domingo, p. 175 (1SS5) = 

 ib. List Bds. W. L p. 33 (1885). 



Phaeton flavirostris'^ Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VH, p. 128 

 (1859) (Bahamas). — ib. Brewer, p. 308 (i860) (Cuba). — Gundl. 

 Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, L p. 395 (1866). — Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. 

 Y. Vin, p. 103 (1867) (Sombrero).— GuxuL. J. f. O. 1874, p. 314 

 (Porto Rico); ib. 1875, p. 403 (Cuba); ib. 1878, p. 163 (Porto 

 Rico); ib. Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. VH, p. 419 (1S7S) Porto 

 Rico). 



Adult Male: — Bill pale orange yellow; general plumage white, some- 

 times slightly rosy-tinted; most of primaries showing much black ; 

 a streak passing through the eye; some of the wing-coverts and 

 shafts of tail-feathers black; tail extended into two very long feath- 

 ers which are reddened ; tarsus bluish; iris black; webs and toes 

 black. 



Length, including tail-feathers, 31.50; wing, 11.00; tail, 21.00; 

 tarsus, .90; bill, 2.00. 



Habitat. Bahamas and Antilles. 



