1^6 Cory o)i the Birds of the West Indies. [April 



Winter Plumage, Male : — Above dark brown with slight greenish re- 

 flections; sides of the head and throat ashy gray, continuous in a 

 broad band around the neck; underparts silky white, mottled with 

 dusky; outer primaries showing chocolate-brown, the others and 

 secondaries white. 



Length, 9.35; wing, 3.60; tarsus, 1.24; bill, .85. 

 Habitat. Bahamas and Greater Antilles. 



Colymbus holboellii (Reinh.) is included by Mr. Wells in 

 his list of the birds of Grenada {Podiceps Jiolbolli? Wells, List 

 of the Birds of Grenada, p. 12, 1886) but is probably some other 

 species wrongly identified. 



Genus Podilymbus Less. 



Podilymbus Lesson, Traite d'Orn. I, p. 595 (1831). 



Podilymbus podiceps (Linn.). ^ 



Coly^nbus podiceps LiNN. Syst. Nat. I, p. 223 (1766). — Sunj)EV. Oefv. 

 K. Vet. Acad. For. 1869, p. 603 (Porto Rico). 



Colymbus carolifieiisis D'Orb. in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois. p. 2S5 

 (1840). 



Podilymbus carolinensis GossE, Bds. Jam. p. 43S (1847). 



Sylbeocyclus carolinensis Gundl. J. f. O. 1S56, p. 431 (Cuba). — Brewer, 

 Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VH, p. 308 (1S60) (Cuba). 



Jr odilymbus podiceps Scl. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 82 (Jamaica). — March, Pr. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1864, p. 70 (Jamaica). — Gundl. Repert. 

 Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 386 (1866) ; ib. J. f. O. 1875 p. 367 (Cuba). 

 Lawr. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. I, p. 488 (1878) (St. Vincentand Grena- 

 da) ; ib. p. 242 (Barbuda).— Gundl. Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. VH, 

 P- 397 (1878) (Porto Rico).— Scl. P. Z. S. 1879, P- 7^5 (Mont- 

 serrat). — A. & E. Newton, Handb. Jamaica, p. 117 (1881). — Cory, 

 List Bds. W. I. p. 34 (1885).— Wells, List Bds. Grenada, p. 12 

 (1886). 



Numerous West Indian records. 



APPENDIX. 



Since this paper was written the following species and sub- 

 species have been added to the West Indian Avi-fauna. 



Mimocichla ravida Cory. Grand Cayman. 

 Cory, Auk, HI, p. 499, 1886. 



