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portions, particularly about the margins of a small salt 

 pond, the size of which was dependent upon conditions of 

 tide and wind. There is no fresh water on the Cay. 



In the literature of ornithology. Cay Verde figures only 

 in Bryant's "List of Birds Seen at the Bahamas from Jan. 

 20, to May IJ:, 1859,"* where it is mentioned casually as a 

 breeding place of the Tropic Bird {Fhaethon flaviiuslfis). 

 This author writes at some length of the nesting habits of 

 the Booby and Man-o'-War Bird as observed in ISan Domin- 

 go Cay and the Kagged Islands, respectively, but does not 

 refer to the colonies of these birds in Cay Verde. Possibly, 

 he did not himself visit Cay Verde where doubtless both the 

 species of birds named have nested for a prolonged period ; 

 this Cay, so we were informed, having some ten years ago 

 been the site of a guano industry which flourished until all 

 the available deposit had been removed. 



My information in regard to the birds of Cay Verde, was 

 obtained from the late D. P. Ingraham, who, as a collecting- 

 naturalist, visited the Cay about 1891. Mr. Ingraham 's in- 

 formation in regard to the presence of Boobies and Man-o '- 

 War Birds was fully verified. In May, he also wrote, great 

 numbers of Terns (doubtless Sterna fuliginosa, S. ancethe- 

 tus and Anous stolidus) and a few Tropic Birds come to the 

 Cay to nest. 



No land birds appear to be resident on Cay Verde, but it 

 is evidently visited by numbers of migrants. During our 

 stay the following species were noted : 



Audubon's Shearwater Fish Hawk 



Sooty Tern Duck Hawk 



Great Blue Horon Kingfisher 



Black-necked Stilt Mangrove Cuckoo 



Greater Yellow-leg Gray Kingbird 



Little Yellow-leg Savanna Sparrow 



Least Sandpiper Myrtle Warbler 



Turnstone Yellow-throat {Geothlypis) 



Audubon's Shearwater was doubtless breeding on the 

 Cay in some of the innumerable holes in the limestone. No 



* Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist.. VII. p. 102. 



