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icteridae. 

 * holoquiscalus caymanensis caymanensis (cory). 



Foiu" specimens, three males and a female, all adult. Grand Cayman, 

 May. 



Brown had to spend so much time while in Grand Cayman search- 

 ing for the rare species, that he rather neglected the Grackle and some 

 of the other very common birds. 



This is a very well-marked insular subspecies peculiar to Grand 

 Cayman. 



HOLOQTJISCALUS CAYMANENSIS CARIBAETJS Todd. 



Fourteen specimens, both sexes, adults and one young. Little 

 Cayman and Cayman Brae, June and July. 



The Grackle of the two smaller islands which differs from true 

 H. caymanensis of Grand Cayman in its much larger size and stronger 

 bill, has always been referred to H. gundlachii (Cassin) of eastern Cuba. 

 I had in the present paper corrected this old error, and had named the 

 form as new, arriving at the same conclusions as Todd, except that he 

 did not know the bird of Cayman Brae and Little Cayman, which is 

 identical with that inhabiting the Isle of Pines and western Cuba. 



Todd's paper. The Birds of the Isle of Pines, Annals of the Carnegie 

 museum, 10, nos. 1-2, (dated Jan. 1916, but received by M. C. Z. 

 Mar. 1, 1916), containing a description of the form, came just in time 

 to allow me to change the name while reading proof. 



Icterus bairdi Cory. 



Seventeen specimens, both sexes, adults, and five immature (one 

 year old?) birds still carrying a partly or wholly greenish yellow tail. 

 Grand Cayman, April, May, and June. A nest made of palm fibres 

 and attached to a hemp palm leaf about sixty feet from the ground 

 was found 28 May; the nest contained three young birds. 



This splendid island species confined to Grand Cayman differs from 

 /. leiicopteryx (Wagler) of Jamaica, from which it obviously was de- 

 rived, in being bright golden yellow only slightly tinged with olive on 

 the head, and just a trifle darker on the back than it is below. It is 

 also a little smaller and has a slightly slenderer and more delicate bill. 



