BIRDS OF HAITI AND SAN DOMINGO. 



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sides, the spots becoming very small and faint upon the abdomen ; 

 most of the primaries, slate color, becoming brownish at the tips ; 

 legs and bill, black. 



Length 21; wing 11.25; tarsus 2.60; bill 2. 



Several specimens taken in different localities. It is probably 

 resident, but not abundant. 



Anas bahamensis. Linn., Syst. Nat., I. p. 199 (1766). — Max., Beitr., 

 IV. p. 925. 



Dafila bahamensis. Hartl., Ind. Az., p. 27 (1847). — Cab. in Schomb. 



Guian., III. p. 763. — Scl. and Salv., P. Z. S., 1876, p. 393. — 



Cory, Bds. Bahama I., p. 185 (1880). 

 Peocilonetta bahamensis. Eyton, Mon. Anat., p. 116 (1838). — ScL, 



P. Z. S., i860, p. 389. — Abbott, Ibis, 1861, p. 160. — Gundl., 



Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat., Tomo VII. p. 403 (1878). 

 Anas fimbriata. " Merrem., Ersch. u Grub. Enc, Sect. I., XXXV. 



P- 35-" 



Anas tirophasianiis. Vig., Zool. Journ., IV. p. 357 (1829). 

 Dafila urophasianus. Eyton, Mon. Anat., p. 112, t. 20 (1838). 

 Anas ilathera. " Vieilh, Enc. Meth., p. 152 (1823)." 

 Anas rubirostris. " Vieill., Nouv. Diet., V. p. 108 (181 6)." 



Genus: DAFILA. Steph. 



DAFILA BAHAMENSIS. (Linn.) 



