52 TRANSACTIONS OF THE [jAN. 12^ 



Dr. H. T. Vulte was proposed as Fellow of the Academy by 

 Prof. N. L. Britton. 



January 12th, 1891. 



Stated Meeting. 

 Vice-President Dr. Hubbard in the chair. 

 About thirty-five persons present. 

 Minutes of January 5th were read and approved. 

 The following paper was read : 



BAHAMAN BIRDS. 

 BY DR. JOHN I. NORTHROP. 



(Abstract.) 



After a few preliminary remarks upon the situation and size 

 of the Bahamas, tlie speaker stated that a paper giving the de- 

 tails of the collection of birds would appear in the Auk for 

 January. He stated tliat all the species, seventy-four in num- 

 ber, were represented by the specimens on the table, but that lie 

 would only call attention to the most interesting. 



The following birds were then exhibited and remarked upon : 

 Miniocichia plumbea, Mitnus pnlyglotlU, Mimus Gundlachi, 

 Polioptila cwrulea ccB.nogaxter, Sciurus aurocapillus, Glotlilypis 

 rostrata (a local form, slightly differing from the typical species 

 found on New Pi'ovidenoe), Callichelidon cya?ieoviridis, Dori- 

 clia evelynm, Sporadinus ricordi,Chordeiles minor, Ictnrus Nor- 

 thropi (a new species of a genus not before reported from the 

 Bahamas, and which has been described and named by Dr. J. A. 

 AWew), Cocyzus minor Mai/nardi,Saurothera Bahamensis, Phmni- 

 copterus ruber (the habits and mode of capture being desciibcd), 

 Nycti corax nycticorax nmvius (new to the Bahamas), Rallus 

 Coreyi, Ardea Bahamensis, and several other water birds. 



The speaker also mentioned finding in the stomach of Aiitros- 

 tonnis Caroliiiensis an entire hummingbird sufficiently undi- 

 gested to identify as Sporadinus ricordi. 



He stated that the only mammals on Andros were bats, rats, 

 and mice. The bat was Macrotus Waierhousei,^ and the rat 



' Kindly determined by Prof. J. A. Allen. 



