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the characteristic form of the bill is already manifest. The adults are 

 all in high plumage, with bright crimson lesser wing-coverts and upper 

 and under tail-coverts. Comparison of a series of this species dis- 

 closes a considerable sexual difference in size, particularly marked in 

 the bill, which in the male is decidedly longer and with a broader tip. 



12. Poecilonetta bahamensis (Linnaeus). 

 Three specimens: Watlings Island. 



Adult: "iris red; bill plumbeous, olive-tinged above, with basal 

 patch crimson; feet olive." 



A young bird (No. 30939, Watlings Island, March 23) is assuming 

 the Juvenal dress, and already resembles the adult below. In the 

 downy stage the general color is dull brown, with a white stripe on 

 the flanks and an illy-defined pale superciliary stripe. The throat 

 and cheeks are white also, as in the adult. "Iris light hazel; feet 

 smoky drab; bill-spot brownish." 



13. Colinus virginianus floridanus (Coues). 

 Five specimens: New Providence (Blue Hills). 



After carefully comparing these specimens with examples from 

 peninsular Florida I find myself unable to appreciate any of the 

 characters pointed out either in the original description of Colinus 

 ''bahamensis'' (Maynard, Appendix to Catalogue of the Birds of the West 

 Indies, 1899) or by Mr. Cory {Auk, IV, 1887, 225), although I have 

 examined the latter's original material in this connection. Every 

 one of the distinctive features which are urged by these authors occur 

 as well in numerous individuals of the Florida bird. Moreover, the 

 species is said to have been introduced, and the fact that it occurs on 

 New Providence alone of all the islands in the group renders it prac- 

 tically certain that such was actually the case. Under these circum- 

 stances I can see no further reason for maintaining the Bahaman bird 

 as a recognizable form, and it should accordingly stand as above. 



14. Rallus crepitans coryi Maynard. 



Nine specimens: Watlings Island; Andros (Staniard Creek). 



Table of Average Measurements. 



Wing. Culmen. Tarsus. 



R. c. crepitans, two males 150 61 51 



R. c. waynei, three males 135 63 51 



R. c. coryi, four males 149 61 51 



R. c. crepitans, five females 137 59 45 



R. c. waynei, four females 135 60 47 



R. c. coryi, five females 139 56 46 



R. c. coryi, type 139 53 44 



