164 BIRDS OF HAITI AND SAN DOMINGO. 



Fulica wilsoni. Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., XII. p. 236 (1824). 

 Fulica atra. Wils., Am. Orn., IX. p. 61, pi. 73, fig. 1 (1825). 



Sp. Char., Male. — Dark slate color, becoming grayish on 

 the abdomen ; head and neck, glossy blue-black ; olive markings 

 upon the back; edge of wing and ends of secondaries, white; bill, 

 white, marked with reddish black on the upper, and a spot of the 

 same near the end of the lower mandible ; feet, dark olive. 



Length 14.75; wing 7.45; tail 2.30; bill, from lower edge of 

 frontal plate, 1.40. 



This species is abundant about the lakes near Gantier, during 

 the winter months. 



