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History of Carolina and the Bahamas, states in 1743, that Iguanas or 

 Guanas were abundant upon many islands throughout the Bahamas, 

 so common in fact that schooners were cargoed with them and that 

 they were carried to Carolina for food. The name Guana is even now 

 used among the "Conchs" of the Bahamas, who still speak a peculiar 

 archaic English. A vague idea of how wide-spread these great lizards 

 were in early colonial times may be gained from the Bahaman place- 

 names. Thus, there is a Great Guana Cay, off the Abaco coast not 

 far from Green Turtle Cay, a settlement which once had some impor- 

 tance. This islet was visited by the senior author in 1904 but no 

 Guanas were found, and none had persisted to within the memory of 

 the elder folk living in the tiny hamlet. There is also a Guana Cay 

 near Little Harbor about half way up the chain of the Berry Islands, 

 and not far from one of the Bahaman Whale Cays, for this also is a 

 common place-name. Then we find another Great Guana Cay in the 

 Exuma chain of Cays. In all of these islands Guanas are now un- 

 known. On Bitter Guana Cay, however, but a few hundred yards 

 from the Great Guana Cay in Exuma, Mr. C. J. Maynard tells us 

 that up to 1915 a few Cycluras were still to be found. He believes 

 that these represent an undescribed race. As to the status of the other 

 Bahaman species : — baeolopha is still not uncommon, since its habitat, 

 Andros Island, is very large and contains much unsettled and indeed 

 even unexplored territory. Of nuchalis from Fortune Island we know 

 nothing. Stejneger's species, rileyi, is confined to two tiny islets in 

 the saline lagoon of Watling's Island; here Riley obtained the types 

 in 1903 and W. W. Worthington procured a few specimens in March, 

 1909. Our new species, inornata, is, or was, found upon a little island 

 called U Cay, in Allen's Harbor, north of Highborn Cay and situated 

 in the Ai'chipelago between Exuma and New Providence. Here in 

 1892 Maynard found the Iguanas not uncommon. He revisited the 

 islet in 1915, was storm bound there and hence had ample opportun- 

 ity to cover it very completely. He found but two Iguanas still 

 living upon U Cay. Both of these he shot ; one, our type, he secured, 

 the other escaped, wounded. Thus the species inornata, which 

 once doubtless existed on several islands about Allen's Harbor, is now 

 beyond doubt extinct. Since these creatures are excellent for food, 

 they are constantly hunted by the native negroes, often with dogs 

 trained for the purpose. These negroes during the course of their 

 sponging and turtling voyages cover the entire Bahaman Archipelago, 

 visiting even the most remote, inaccessible, and infertile cays. There 

 is a constant search for animal food, which unfortunately is by no 



