Birds of West Indies. C.B.Cory. 
Nomonyx dominicus (Linn.;. 
Anas dominica Linn. Syst. Nat. I, p. 201 (1766). — Sundev. Oefv. K. Vet. 
Akad. For. 1869, p. 603 (Porto Rico). 
Anas spinosa? D’Orb. in La Sagra’s Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois. p. 297 (1840)? 
Erismatura dominica A. & E. Newton, Ibis, 1859, P- 367 (St. Croix) (?). 
— Gundl. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 391 (1866) ; ib. J. f. O. 
I ^ 74 ’ P- 3 r 4 (Porto Rico); ib. 1875, p. 314 (Cuba); ib. Anal. Soc. 
Esp. Hist. Nat. VII, p. 40S (1878) (Porto Rico). 
D end rocy gnus spinosa Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 308 (i860) 
(Cuba). 
Nomonyx dominions Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 31 (1SS5). 
Sp. Char. Male:— Top ot" head brownish black ; a stripe of brown through 
the eye, and a parallel stripe of the same color below, separated by 
a narrow stripe ot tawny ; a narrow tawny superciliary stripe ; 
thioat tawny biown, the feathers marked with chestnut, heaviest on 
the lower part; underparts dull white, marked with yellowish 
brown; feathers of the back having the centres black, and heavily 
edged with chestnut; quills and tail dark brown; secondaries white, 
tipped with brown, forming a large white patch on the wing. In 
some plumages the male is described as having the entire head 
black. 
The female differs from the male in lacking the chestnut markin 
on the upper parts, which is replaced by pale brown, bill dar 
brown, almost black. 
Length, 12.00; wing, 5.30; tail 3.10; tarsus, 90; bill, 1.30. 
Habitat. Antilles. AuiCt y> Ja]Q<> 1888> p ^ 
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