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May 6. — On a trip from the laboratory to the Hght-house the following 

 birds were noted: One catbird, 1 yellow palm warbler, a number of barn 

 swallows, a black-poll warbler, a pair of Florida yellow-throats, a broad- 

 winged hawk, and a green heron on the beach near the light-house. 



May 7. — On the usual early morning trip from the laboratory to the 

 light-house the following birds were seen, most of them in the trees about 

 the light-house : One catbird, a pair of redstarts, an upland plover, a semi- 

 palmated plover, 2 brown pelicans, 10 royal terns, a black-poll warbler, a 

 Cape May warbler, a Florida yellow-throat, several barn swallows, 2 female 

 bobolinks, a spotted sandpiper. In passing Bird Key on our way to Key 

 West we noted about 25 man-of-war birds among the bushes and a few 

 laughing gulls flying about among the throng of sooty and noddy terns. 

 The royal terns, as usual, occupied the stakes. At Marquesas Key, in 

 the afternoon, we saw quite a number of birds, as follows : Great blue heron, 

 egret, yellow-crowned night heron, barn swallows, osprey, snowy heron, 

 Bahama red-winged blackbirds, black-bellied plover, black-poll warblers, 

 mangrove cuckoo, bobolinks, least sandpipers, Florida yellow-throats. I was 

 told some young roseate spoon-bills had been taken on this key the year 

 before. 



May 8. — At Sands Key we noted man-of-war birds and laughing gulls 

 on the way, and on the island several hundred pairs of least terns breeding. 

 A crippled herring gull has made the island its camping-ground. A pair 

 of royal terns was also seen. The water-tank having a slight leak, causing 

 a very scanty dripping, furnished quite a number of the migrating birds a 

 drinking fountain, and here we noted a redstart, a black-poll warbler, a 

 mourning warbler, a Florida yellow-throat, a water thrush, and a black- 

 throated blue warbler. On the beach were seen least and semipalmated 

 sandpipers. 



Scientific Equivalents for the Common Names of Birds used in the preceding list. 



Herring gull = Larus argentatus. 

 Laughing gull = Larus atricilla. 

 Royal tern = Sterna maxima. 

 Least tern = Sterna antillarum. 

 Sooty tern = Sterna fuscata. 

 Noddy tern = Anous stolidus. 

 Red-footed booby =Sula piscator 

 Florida cormorant = Phalacrocorax auritus 



floridanus. 

 Brown pelican = Pelecanus ocoidentalis. 

 Man-of-war bird = Fregata aquila. 

 Roseate spoonbill =Ajaj a ajaja. 

 Ward's heron = Ardea herodias wardi. 

 Egret = Herodias egretta. 

 Snowy egret = Egretta candidissima candi- 



dissima. 

 Louisiana heron = Hydranassa tricolor ru- 



ficollis. 

 Green heron = Butorides virescens vires- 



cen?. 

 Yellow-crowned night heron = Nyctanassa 



violacea. 

 Least sandpiper = Pisobia minutilla. 

 Semipalmated sandpiper = Ereunetes pusil- 



lus. 

 Sanderling = Calidris leucophaja. 

 Upland plover = Bartramia longicauda. 

 Spotted sandpiper = Actiti8 macularia. 

 Black-bellied plover = Squat arola squata- 



rola. 



Wilson's plover = Ochthodromus wilsonius. 

 Ground dove = Cha?mepelia passerina ter- 



restris. 

 Marsh hawk = Circus hudsonius. 

 Sharp-shinned hawk = Accipiter velox. 

 Florida red-shouldered hawk = Buteo linea- 



tus alleni. 

 Broad-winged hawk = Buteo platypterus. 

 Pigeon hawk = Falco columbarius colum- 



barius. 

 Osprey = Pandion haliaetus carolinensis. 

 Mangrove cuckoo = Coccyzus minor minor. 

 Black-billed cuckoo = Coccyzus erythroph- 



thalmus. 

 Kingfisher = Ceryle alcyon. 

 Red-bellied woodpecker = Centurus caro- 



linus. 

 Gray kingbird ? = Tyrannus dominicensis? 

 Bobolink = Dolichonyx oryzivorus. 

 Bahama red-winged blackbird = Agelaius 



phoeniceus bryanti. 

 Boat-tailed grackle = Megaquiscalus major 



major. 

 Goldfinch =Astragalinus tristis tristis. 

 Nonpareil = Passerina ciris. 

 Scarlet tanager = Piranga erythromelas. 

 Barn swallow = Hirundo erythrogastra. 

 White-beUied swallow = Iridoprocne bi- 



color. 



