BIRDS OF HAITI AND SAN DOMINGO. 



Sp. Char., Male. — General plumage, tawny, mottled, and 

 streaked with brown ; wing, banded with lustrous green, black, and 

 tawny, in the order given ; top of head and nape, brown, finely 

 mottled with dark brown ; rest of head and throat, white ; a trian- 

 gular patch on each side of the upper mandible, lake red ; tail, 

 tawny, becoming pale at the tip ; legs, black. 



Length 19; wing 8; tail 4.75; tarsus 1.25; bill 1.95. 



This species probably occurs in San Domingo. No specimens 

 were taken, but I think that I saw it on two occasions. We 

 found it abundant on the island of Inagua Bahamas. 



Genus: QUERQUEDULA. Steph. 

 QUERQUEDULA : STEPHENS, SHAW'S GEN. ZOOL., XII. p. 149, 1824. 



QUERQUEDULA DISCORS. {Linn.) 



Anas discors. Linn., Syst. Nat., I. eel. 12, p. 205 (1766). — Wils., 

 Am. Orn., VIII. p. 74, pi. 68, fig. 4 (iS 14). — Aud., Bds. Am., 



VI. p. 287, pi. 393 (1843). 



Anas (Bosc/ias) discors. "Sw. and Rich., F. B. A., II. p. 444 (1831)." 



— Nutt, Man., II. p. 397 (1834). 

 Querqtiednla discors. Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., XII. ii. p. 149 



(1824). — Salle (Sclater), P. Z. S., 1857, p. 237.— Baird, Bds. 



N. Am., p. 779 (1858). — Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 



VII. p. 122 (1859). — Gundl., Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat., 

 Tomo VII. p. 404 (187S). — Cory, Bds. Bahama I., p. 186 

 (18S0).— Ridgw., Norn. N. Am. Bds., No.- 609 (1SS1). — Coues, 

 Check List, 2d cd., No. 716 (18S2). — Bd., Bwr. and Ridgw., 

 Hist. N. Am. W. Bds., I. p. 531 (1884). 



