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the night, all the flowers on which they were feeding. In the course 

 of a few days, the flowers again made their appearance, but not the 

 humming birds. Sometime after, I was told of a meringa tree on 

 which they were feeding in great numbers. The tree was only about 

 three hundred yards from the place where I was staying, and I im- 

 mediately went to it, and in a short time killed several; but on visit- 

 ing it again at different times, saw scarcely another bird. All hum- 

 ming birds that I have ever observed feed equally on insects and 

 honey, and though they generally procure insects from flowers, this is 

 by no means universally the case. I should think that fully one-half 

 of the humming birds killed by me had eaten sufficient honey for it 

 to run out of the bill when the bird was held up by the foot. 



CertMola. 



* f Certhiola bahamensis, Reich. (CertMola Jlaveola, Bry.) 

 As there were no fruit trees at Inagua, these birds were compelled to 

 procure their food from the same flowers as the humming birds, and 

 this was apparently very similar. Frequently several drops of honey 

 would run from the bill. The stomach, in every instance, contained 

 insects, and in one or two instances, I also found a few small seeds 

 surrounded with a greenish pulp. Gosse, in his description of Certhi- 

 ola flaveola, says that it is frequently driven away from the flowers 

 by the humming birds. The present species is not so easily alarmed ; 

 but, on the contrary, almost always drives away the humming birds 

 that come to the flowers on which they are feeding. 



Tyrannus (Melittarchus.) 



* Tyrannus magnirostris. One male shot on the Savanna. 

 The stomach was filled with wasps. 



(Pitangus.) 



•j- Tyrannus caudifasciatus. One specimen. The bird de- 

 termined by me in the previous list as caudifasciatus, was decided by 

 Prof. Baird and myself to be of a different species (Pitangus baha- 

 mensis) and described as such in the Proceedings of the Society 

 (Vol. IX., p. 279.) 



Tyrannula (Myiarchus.) 



* I Tyrannula stolida (var. lucaysiensis.) This variety (?) 

 is larger than either the Jamaican stolidus or Cuban sagrce, but it re- 

 sembles sagroe. most in color. Several specimens. $ adult. Length 

 of wing, 90, of tail, 82 ; of bill along ridge, 21. § Above brownish- 



The measurements are in millimetres. 



