74 CoF^Y 071 the Birds of the West Indies. [January 



Phaethon aethereus Lixn. ^ 



Pha'ethon (ethereiis Linn. Syst. Nat. I, loth ed. p. 134(1758); ib. 12th 

 ed. p. 219(1766). — GossE, Bds. Jam. p. 430(1847). — Sundev. Oefv. 

 K. Vet. Akad. For. 1869, p. 590 (St. Bartholomew) ; ib. p. 603 

 (Porto Rico).— Lawr. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. I, p. 195 (1878) (St. 

 Vincent) ; ib. p. 274 (Grenada) ; ib. p. 460 (Guadeloupe). — A. & E. 

 Newton, Handb. Jamaica, p. U2 (1881). — Cory, List Bds. W. L 

 p. 33 (1S85); ib. Ibis. 1S86, p. 474 (La Desirade).— Wells, List 

 Bds. Grenada, p. 11 (1S86). 



Phaeton cBthereus D*Orb. in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois, p. 312 

 (1840). — GuNDL. J. f. O. 1862. p. 96 (Cuba) ; ib. Albrecht, p. 207 

 (Jamaica). 



Sp. Char. — Bill red; General plumage white ; a black crescent in front 

 of the eye; a stripe extending from the eye to the occiput; outer 

 webs of outer primaries, and most of the primary coverts, black; 

 rest of upper surface irregularly barred with dull black; flanks 

 striped; elongated central tail-feathers white, basal portion of the 

 shafts black; tarsus yellowish orange.'' this color reaching to the 

 first joint of the toes, including the web between the inner and hind 

 toes; rest of feet black. 



Length, 31.00; wing, 12.00; bill. 2.45. 



Recorded from Cuba, Jamaica, Porto Rico, St. Vincent, 

 Grenada, Gaudeloupe, St. Bartholomew, and La Desirade. 



Family RYNCHOPID^. 



Genus Rynchops Linn. 



Rynchops Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. L loth ed. p. 22S, 1758; ib. 12th ed. p. 

 228, 1776. 



Rynchops nigra Linn. 



Rynchops nigra Linn. Syst. Nat. L loth ed. p. 22S (175S) ; ib. 12th ed. p. 



22S (1766).— A. & E.Newton. Ibis, 1859. P-37i (St. Croix) .=— Cory, 



List Bds. W.I. p. 33 (1885). 

 Rhynco/ps nigra GuNDL. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I. p. 393 (1S66) ; ib. 



J. f.O. 1875, p. 395 (Cuba). 



Accidental in Cuba and St. Croix. 



