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Pi'of. S. F. Baird on the Distribution and 



From an examination of this list it will be seen that, with but 

 few exceptions, the species that reach Panama and pass into 

 South America occur also in Cuba as winter visitors, the prin- 

 cipal exceptions being Empidonax trailli and E. flaviventris, 

 Geothli/pis Philadelphia, Dendroeca castanea and D. cestiva, Myio- 

 dioctes canadensis, Euspiza americana, and one or two species 

 belonging to the middle province. It will also be remarked how 

 many more of our species are recorded as visiting Cuba than 

 Jamaica, 80 species instead of 36, the number becoming 

 still less as we proceed eastward in the group. The Bahama 

 winter fauna will probably exhibit as many continental species 

 as Cuba, or even more, when we are better acquainted with it. 

 The comparative superiority of numbers in Cuba is probably 

 owing to the fact that the island, the western end especially, 

 with the Tortugas, is a stepping-stone or resting-place for our 

 species passing- from Florida to Yucatan and Guatemala. This 



