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BIRDS OF HAITI AND SAN DOMINGO. 



FAMILY 



AN ATI D^E. 



Subfamily, A N A T I N JE. 



Genus: DENDROCYGNA. Swain. 



DENDROCYGNA: SWAINSON, CLASS. BIRDS, II. p. 365, 1837. 



DENDROCYGNA ARBOREA. (Linn.) 



Anas arborea. Linn., Syst. Nat., I. p. 207 (1766). — Gmel., Syst. Nat. 

 I. p. 540 (1788). — Vieill., Enc. Meth., p. 141 (1823). 



Dcjidrocygna arborea. Eyton, Mon. Anat., p. 1 10 (1838). — Gosse, 

 Bds. Jam., p. 395 (1847). — Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist, 

 XI. p. 70 (1866). — Scl. and Salv., P. Z. S., 1876, p. 375.— 

 Gundl., Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat., Tomo VII. p. 400 (1878). 

 — Cory, Bds. Bahama I., p. 183 (1880). 



Anas jacquini. "Gmel., Syst. Nat., I. p. 536 (1788)." 



Sp. Char., Male. — Head with black band on the crown, continu- 

 ing in narrow stripes to the nape; forehead and over the eye, reddish 

 brown, shading into dull white on the throat, and mottled brown and 

 white on the sides of the head and neck; breast and upper parts, 

 brown, (he feathers broadly edged with tawny; rump and tail, black ; 

 underparts, brownish white, heavily spotted and banded upon the 



