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to Lowe's list. A few of these are merely migrants. Four others 

 I had already included in the following account of Brown's collection, 

 and I let my words stand as first written. 



It would be of interest to know the bird that Mr. English found 

 breeding in Grand Cayman and called Chordeiles virginicmus, distin- 

 guishing it from Chordeiles minor by its larger size. On geographic 

 grounds it certainly could not have been Chordeiles virginianus vir- 

 ginicmus (Gmelin). 



Ardeidae. 



*BUTORIDES VIRESCENS BRUNESCENS (Lemb.). 



Two specimens, an adult cf and an immature 9 , Grand Cayman, 

 May. 



These are similar to specimens from Jamaica and Cuba. I have 

 already (Auk, Oct. 1915, 32, p. 481-484) given my reasons for using 

 the name brunescens for the Green Heron of the Greater Antilles. 

 Whether or not that form can be maintained as distinct from B. v. 

 vutculatus (Bodd.) of Martiniciue remains, I think, to be proved. 

 Oberholser has probablv' subdivided the Green Heron too much, and 

 he had but three specimens from Martinique when he wrote his 

 Revision of the subspecies of the Green Heron (Proc. U. S. N. M., 

 1912, 42, p. 529-577). 



Rallidae. 



*Gallinula chloropus CACHiNNANS Bangs. 



Brown found the Gallinule breeding in abundance in the many 

 marshy ponds in Grand Cayman in April and May, and took several 

 sets of eggs, but made up no skins. 



Laridae. 

 t Sterna antillarum (Lesson). 



One adult cf , Little Cayman, July 26. Browfi found the Least 

 Tern breeding in abundance. 



