8 PROCEEDINGS OP THE NATIONAL MUSEUM vol.79 



AMAZONA LEUCOCEPHALA CAYMANENSIS (Cory) 



Cayman parrot 



Chrysotis caymanensis Cory, Auk, 1886, p. 497. (Grand Cayman Island, West 

 Indies. ) 



Two males and one other specimen with sex not marked were taken 

 by Gifford Pinchot and A. K. Fisher on Grand Cayman April 17, 

 1929. On comparison with a considerable series from Cuba the 

 alleged color differences are not apparent, the only evident dis- 

 tinction being that of slightly greater size. 



The males have the following measurements: Wing, 195.0-201.0; 

 tail, 119.0-119.9; culmen from cere, 26.3-25.9; tarsus, 22.5-23.9 mm. 

 As these measurements are within the maximum for typical A. I. 

 leu€Ocephala, the supposed characters of caymanensis would seem 

 to be very slight. 



This form is new to the collections of the National Museum. 



Quite a number of parrots were seen, but on only a few occasions 

 was it practicable to collect them. They were rather silent except 

 when individuals of a flock became separated from one another; 

 then in true parrot fashion they voiced their troubles. We were told 

 that when certain fruits were ripening the parrots visited the door- 

 yards where such food was found, to enjoy the unwilling hospitality 

 of the owner. Those which we saw feeding appeared to eat the 

 ovaries and internal soft parts of flowers. 



COCCYZUS MINOR MAYNARDI Ridgway 



Bahama mangrove cuckoo 



Coccyzus maynardi Ridgway, Man. North Amer. Birds, Sept., 1887, p. 274. 

 (Ten Thousand Islands, Fla.) 



A female in excellent plumage taken on Grand Cayman April 17, 

 1929, represents the present form, agreeing in its pale coloration 

 with a series of maynardi from the Bahamas, and differing decidedly 

 from the darker forms nesiotes of Jamaica and teres of Hispaniola 

 and Porto Rico, and farther south and east. It has the following 

 measurements : Wing, 126.3 ; tail, 162.0 ; culmen from base, 27.0 ; 

 tarsus, 27.4 mm. 



The subspecies of the mangrove cuckoo from Grand Cayman has 

 been an undecided question. The specimens examined by Ridgway '^ 

 from this island were in such worn condition of plumage that he was 

 uncertain whether they w^ere nesiotes or maynardi^ but finally called 

 them the former. Bangs ^ identified a series taken by W. W. Brown, 

 jr., from May to July, 1911, on the three islands of the Cayman group 

 as nesiotes^ remarking : " These specimens agree with Jamaican skins 



»U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 50, pt. 7, 1916, pp. 25, 27. 

 • Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 60, 1916, pp. 309, 310, 



