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means abundant or easily obtained by the poor inhabitants of one 

 of Great Britain's most deUghtful but poverty-stricken colonies. 

 Iguanas are often brought from Andros to market in Nassau, upon 

 New Providence Island. One of the authors has seen the creatures 

 for sale there upon several occasions. We have concluded therefore 

 that a magnificent adult male baeolopha in the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences of Philadelphia (Reptile Coll. 8120) probably represents 

 such a specimen, although it is said to have been collected by a Mr. 

 Wilson on New Providence in 1861. Our belief is that the Iguanas 

 disappeared from New Providence long before this date. For the 

 benefit of the herpetologists we should also record that Salt Cay, near 

 Hog Island, opposite the town of Nassau, has been stocked with 

 Iguanas brought from Andros Island. Mr. Chamberlain, the owner 

 of Salt Cay is reported to have stated that they have thriven and 

 appear to have become well established in their new home. 



Of some of the other species of the genus we know even less than of 

 these we have referred to. Cyclura collei has almost certainly com- 

 pletely disappeared upon the mainland of Jamaica and it was only by 

 the greatest stroke of good fortune that Mr. Arthur Perrin of Cam- 

 bridge who kindly volunteered to make a special excursion for the 

 purpose, was able to secure the specimen, which we describe, from 

 Goat Island not far from Old Harbor off southern Jamaica. Dr. 

 A. G. Mayer tells us that an Iguana was secured a few years ago on 

 one of the cays near Montego Bay, and that he believes a few still 

 exist there. Of the species on Navassa, Haiti, and Mona we know 

 practically nothing. Mr. W. M. Mann who spent some months in 

 Haiti, and who made an excellent collection of reptiles there in 1913 

 was unable to learn anything of Iguanas and secured none. Mr. 

 Halter from the American Museum, visited Santo Domingo in 1915 

 and could learn nothing of existing Iguanas. Of the Cyclura on 

 Mona Island we know only that Stejneger quotes Bowdish as say- 

 ing that he got his specimens in 1901, among the rocks. 



The journeys which the senior author has made on a number of 

 occasions permit us to speak with more authority regarding Cuba. 

 Gundlach in 1880 wrote " Esta especie vive en varios cayos y en las 

 costas de la isla de Cuba y de la isla de Pinos; pero es hoy una 

 especie rara, aunque antiguamente fuese comun y llevada a los merca- 

 dos, siendo su came estimada como excel ente manjar." He goes on to 

 say that it usually lives in burrows in the sand dunes or in sandy places 

 about the coasts where it is easily dug out. Now the Cuban Iguana 

 has with increasing civilization become still more rare and restricted 



