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April 29. — Off for Key West. Passed many royal terns on the buoys and 

 stakes and quite a number of sooties flying about. On the north side of 

 Marquesas Key we saw royal terns, brown pelicans, osprey, American egrets, 

 black-crowned night herons. 



Maxj 1. — Sooty terns were seen in small flocks on the way from Key West 

 to Havana. 



Scientific equivalents for the common names of birds used in the preceding list. 



Orchard oriole = Icterus spurius. 



Savanna sparrow = Passerculus sandwichen- 



sis savanna. 

 Florida cardinal = Cardinalis cardinalis flori- 



danus. 

 Indigo = Passerina cyanea. 

 Summer tanager = Piranga rubra. 

 White-eyed vireo — Vireo griseus griseus. 

 Black and white creeping warbler = Mniotilta 



varia. 

 Worm-eating warbler = Helmintherus vermi- 



vorus. 

 Tennessee warbler = Vermivora peregrina. 

 Parula warbler = Compsothlypis americana 



americana. 

 Cape May warbler = Dendroica tigrina. 

 Black-throated blue warbler = Dendroica caeru- 



leecens caerulescens. 

 Black-poll warbler = Dendroica striata. 

 Yellow-palm warbler = Dendroica palmarum 



hypochrysea. 

 Prairie warbler = Dendroica discolor. 

 Oven bird = Seiurus aurocapillus. 

 Kentucky warbler = Oporornis formosa. 

 Florida yellow-throat = Geothlypis trichas 



ignota. 

 Redstart = Setophaga ruticilla. 

 Mocking bird = Mimus polyglottos poly- 

 glot tos. 

 Catbird = Dumetella carolinensis. 

 Yellow-billed cuckoo = Coccyzus americanus 



americanus. 



Herring gull = Larus argentatus. 

 Laughing gull = Larus atriciUa. 

 Royal tern = Sterna maxima. 

 Least tern = Sterna antillarum. 

 Sooty tern = Sterna fuscata. 

 Red-footed booby = Sula piscator. 

 Cormorant = Phalacrocorax auritus floridanus. 

 Brown pelican = Pelecanus occidentalis. 

 Man-of-war bird = Fregata aquila. 

 White ibis = Guara alba. 

 American egret = Herodias egretta. 

 Louisiana heron = Hydranassa tricolor rufi- 



collis. 

 Black-crowned night heron = Nycticorax nyc- 



ticorax nsevius. 

 Ground dove = Chsemepelia passerina terres- 



tris. 

 Turkey buzzard = Cathartes aura septentri- 



onaUs. 

 Marsh hawk = Circus hudsonius. 

 Sharp-shinned hawk = Accipiter velox. 

 Pigeon hawk = Falco columbarius columbarius. 

 Osprey = Pandion haliaetus caroUnensis. 

 Kingfisher = Ceryle alcyon. 

 Night hawk = Chordeiles virginianus virgini- 



anus. 

 Ruby-throated hummer = Archilochus colu- 



bris. 

 Kingbird = Tyrannus tyrannus. 

 Gray kingbird = Tyrannus dominicensis. 

 Boat-tailed grackle = Megaquiscalus major 



major. 



Preliminary Report on the Bahama Cerions Planted on the Florida 

 Keys, by Paul Bartsch. 



The colonies were visited this year between April 21 and 30, and found in 

 the following condition: 



Second Ragged Key north of Sands Key Good. 



First Ragged Key north of Sands Key Good. 



Tea Table Key Probably extinct. 



Indian Key Very poor. 



Duck Key Undecided. 



Bahia Honda Key Very good. 



New Found Harbor Key Almost extinct. 



Boca Grande Key Good. 



Garden Key Almost extinct. 



Loggerhead Key, Tortugas All very good. 



Two new colonies of cerions from the Bahamas were started this spring on 

 Loggerhead Key, Tortugas, Florida. One of these consists of 500 of the "King 

 Road type," from Andros Island, and the other is composed of 200 specimens of 

 "mottled cerions" from Spring Hill, about 6 miles ESE. of Nassau, New 

 Providence, Bahama. Besides these two new colonies, a planting of young 



