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tunately the Bahama Lunihfr Conipain's hirj^i- tiii^ "Admiral Dcwon" 

 was hilled to meet the same steamer, so we encased passa^!;e at oiue, 

 and started for Nassau about seven o'clock P.M., May 12, in a howling 

 norlheaster, the captain statini^ it was the roughest trij) he had e\-er 

 made. Kvery available bunk and locker was occupied, and we were 

 obliged to remain up all night, the most of which was i^assed on the 

 top of the pilot-house, with a firm grip on the railing to keep from l)eing 

 pitched overboard. However, we reached port safely before five the 

 next morning. The gale continued, accompanied by rain squalls, 

 and our business in Nassau was accomplished between showers. 

 The Ward Line steamer "Seguranca" lay in the offing, and at noon 

 passengers and baggage were put aboard, and three hours later we 

 swung around into our course for New York. Our last sight of Nassau 

 was through gusts of rain, driven over a heaving sea by a northeast 

 gale. 



The details of the expedition have been given thus to show some of 

 the discomforts and delays bound to be encountered in such a trip 

 in the Bahamas as we undertook to make. These could be avoided 

 only by having one's own conveyance, which would be unduly expen- 

 sive, as vessels of sufficient size to insure safety would cost ten or 

 fifteen dollars a day. Otherwise one has to take chances of getting 

 from i)lace to place on whatever offers, to live on the roughest kind 

 of fare, and to mess with negroes, which, although often not over-clean, 

 are all fine boatmen, and one is quite likely to reach his destination 

 while in their care. I wish here to express my thanks to all natives 

 of the Bahamas who aided us in our travels, and especially to His 

 Excellency Sir William Grey-Wilson, Governor of the Bahamas, 

 Captain Boddam-Whetham, Hon. W. Hart Bennett, Colonial Sec- 

 retary, all of Nassau; to Mr. Charles Sargent, Acting U. S. Consul, 

 and Mr. Frank H. Boucher of Great Inagua; to Mr. C. G. Rigby, 

 magistrate at Watlings Island; and to Mr. Charles Lightbourne and 

 Miss Mary Lightbourne of the Blue Hills, near Nassau, for special 

 courtesies. 



Critical Notes. 



By W. E. Clyde Todd. 



The sequence of species in the present paper is the same as in 

 Mr. Joseph H. Riley's "List of Bahaman Birds" (in Shattuck, The 

 Bahama Islands, 1905, 358-368), while the nomenclature is based 



