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BULLETIN 



Vol. 20. Salem: Jolt to December, 1888. Nos. 7-12. 



REPTILES AND BATRACHIANS FROM THE 

 CAYMANS AND FROM THE BAHAMAS. 



Collected by Prop. C. J. Maynard for the Museum of 

 Comparative Zoology at Cambridge, Mass. 



BY SAMUEL GAEMAN. 



A PORTION of this collection, that from Little Cayman 

 and Cayman Brae, furnishes a sort of sequel to the writer's 

 notice of a collection from Grand Cayman ; the balance, 

 from Inagua, Rum Key, and Andros islands, adds some- 

 thing to our knowledge of the fauna of the Bahamas. The 

 localities were chosen by the collector with special refer- 

 ence to study of the ornithology, and their distribution and 

 isolation have given an equal importance to what he has 

 gathered of the lower vertebrates. The Bahaman localities 

 had been touched upon by other collectors at various times, 

 but not exhaustively. At the time of making these col- 

 lections the Caymans were untrodden ground to workers 

 in the interest of zoology ; consequently this writing is in 

 the nature of a first notice. 



Approximately, Cayman Brae is not far from a hundred 

 and twenty miles west a little south from Cape Cruz, the 

 southernmost point of Cuba. It is about the same dis- 



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