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Elliot has kindly sent me a comparative description of the differ- 
ences between A. fu/vigula and this new species, and I find them 
so good that I have adopted much of his wording in the specific 
characters given above. Mr. illiot says, “It seems to me a good 
species and I wonder it has been overlooked.” 
The most marked differences between A. macu/osa and A. ful- 
vigula are that the cheeks of the former are streaked with brown 
while those of the latter are plain buff; the speculum is purple in- 
stead of green; the general effect of the coloration, especially on 
the under sides, is mottled instead of streaked; the light color 
everywhere is a pale buff or isabella color instead of a rich, deep 
buff; and the tail markings also are different, as indicated. The 
female had in its oviduct a perfect egg, which I have not yet re- 
ceived from Mr. Singley. Mr. Priour is familiar with the Duck, 
and finds it not uncommon on the grass flats of Nuesces Bay and 
River. 
RECENT LITERATURE. 
Cory’s Birds of the West Indies.*—Mr. Cory has republished in a book 
of 324 pages his various papers on West Indian birds published during 
the last three years in ‘The Auk,’ together with much new matter, includ- 
ing two maps of the West India Islands, and a bibliography of West 
Indian ornithology (pp. 5-14). Several new cuts have been added, and 
changes have been made at various points in the text, which in the main 
is a reprint from the electrotype plates of Mr. Cory’s series of papers in 
‘The Auk.’ About 555 species are recorded as West Indian, of which 350 
are described at length; the remaining 205 (or thereabout) are North 
American, respecting which merely the character of their occurrence in 
the West Indies is chronicled, with a citation of the references to their 
West Indian history. Nearly three fifths of the species treated are dis- 
tinctively West Indian, being not found elsewhere. Mr. Cory states (p- 3) 
that in the preparation of the work he examined a large series of birds 
*The | Birds of the West Indies. | Including | all species known to cccur in the 
Bahama Islands, the Greater | Antilles, the Caymans, and the Lesser Antilles, except- 
ing | the Islands of Tobago and Trinidad. | By | Charles B. Cory, | Curator of Birds 
in the Boston Society of Natural History, Fellow ofthe | .... [—5 lines oftitles] | Author 
of |.... [4 lines, titles of works. | — | Illustrated. | — | Estes & Lauriat, | Boston, 
U.S. A. | 1889.—8vo, pp. 324, 2 maps, and numerous woodcuts in the text. 
