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however, as Catesby says that liis time was occupied principally, while on the 

 Islands, with studying the fishes. 



After Catesbv's visit, the Islands seem to have been almost neglected by 

 naturalists until Dr. Henry Bryant in 1859 made a trip to them, visiting 

 New Providence, Berry Islands, Biminis, east side of Audros and neighboring 

 keys, Exnma, and the Eagged Island chain of keys. The ornithological results 

 of this trip were published the same year in The Proceedings of the Boston 

 Society of Natural History, and one or two subsequent short articles in the 

 same journal, being the first connected account of tlic Bahama avifauna. Dr. 

 Bryant made a second visit to the Islands in 186G for the purpose of visiting 

 Great Inagua, but touched on his way thither some islands that he had not 

 previously visited, such as Watlings Island, Rum C*ay, Long Island, Acklin 

 Island and Fortune Island. He published a paper during the same year in 

 the same journal as his previous papers. Though Dr. Bryant described most 

 of his discoveries himself, one of them, Doricha lyrura, was named by 

 Gould from his specimens after his death, but owing to the removal of the 

 original label the exact locality could not be given and Gould made an unfor- 

 tunate guess. 



Mr. G. B. Cory has personally made several trips to the Islands and has 

 employed collectors who have visited nearly every island of the group, except 

 some of the smaller cays, and it is largely to him that we owe our present 

 knowledge of the distribution of the Bahama birds. The results of his studies 

 have been published in his several works on West Indian birds, the various 

 volumes of The Auk, and in his quarto work entitled The Birds of the Ba- 

 hamas, etc., of which two editions, almost identical in appearance, have been 

 issued. 



Mr. C. J. Maynard has also made a number of excursions to the Bahamas, 

 visiting New Providence, Andros, Green Cay, Seal Cay, the Washerwomen 

 Cays, the Ship Channel Cays, Rum Cay, Long Island, and Great Inagua,' and 

 on subsequent trips some of the other islands. The ornithological results of 

 his visits have been either published by himself in his Birds of Eastern North 

 America, second edition, 1896, or in his various other publications, and by 

 Mr. Outram Bangs." While Mr. Maynard first discriminated several of the 

 races that have since been recognized as valid, his choice of names in several 

 instances was most unfortunate. 



^ Contributions to Science. Vol. I, 1889, 106. 

 - The Auk, 1900, pp. 283-293. 



