1866.] 63 [Bryar.t. 



CEcophora ></>. 



Another species was found at Hopedale, but my specimens are un- 

 fit to describe. It is allied to the O. j uniperatella and O. betulella of 

 Europe. 



Glyphipteryx sp. 



A specimen, probably of this genus, occurred at Caribou Island. 



Additions to a List of Birds Seen at the Bahamas. By 

 Henry Bryant, Curator of Ornithology, Boston Society 

 OF Natural History. 



In the year 1859, I visited the Bahama Islands, but was unable 

 from want of time, to make as thorough an examination of them as I 

 had hoped. At that time I was frequently told that luagua, one of 

 the largest and the most southerly of the group, was extremely fertile, 

 that it contained forests of large trees and rich savannas. As this 

 island is apparently detached from the rest of the group, and lies so 

 much farther south, and as it is represented on many maps as hilly 

 or mountainous, I thought that it was very probably of a different 

 geological formation from the other islands, and consequently pos- 

 sessed of a different fauna. In order to determine these points, I 

 visited it during the past winter, touching on my way at such islands 

 as I had not previously visited ; all those, including Watling Island, 

 Rum Cay, Long Island, Crooked Island, Ackland Island and Fortune 

 Island, presented, as I had expected, the same formation as the more 

 westerly and northerly Cays ; and to my great disappointment on 

 arriving at Inagua, I found that that garden of Eden was, if any 

 thing, more desolate and dreary than the others, and presented precisely 

 the same geological formation. The fertile prairies, of which I had 

 heard so much, were salt plains covered with a coarse grass, dotted 

 here and there with clum]js of stunted trees, and scarcely elevated 

 above the level of the salt lake, or sallna. The only difference be- 

 tAveen them and those on other Cays, was their greater extent. These 

 plains are undoubtedly the remains of lagoons, formed by fringing reefs 

 filled up by the action of the winds and waves. Watling Island ex- 

 hibits this process in the most striking manner, as it is, strictly sjieak- 

 iug, merely a narrow margin of an interior lagoon, much deeper than 

 the salt lake at Inagua. 



The interior of Inagua has never been thoroughly explored, and 

 little is known of its eastern shore. The principal settlement, called 

 Mathewston, is at the southwest end of the island, and a place of 



