ToDD: Orniimolooy ok Bahama Islands. 4 11 



Prinidcncc birds, which, if anythini;, would U-nd lo (jhsiiirc the 

 characters of the present form through the wearinji olT of the olive 

 feather-edgings of the back, onl>- one of the present series of seven 

 males approaches typical zcna in this respect, so that the Abaco sub- 

 species seems well entitled to recognition. I fail, however, to find 

 any differences whatever between the females of the two forms. 



8i. Passerina cyanea (Linniv;us). 



C.reat Inagua (Mathewtown, February 19); Andros (Staniard 

 Creek, April 15); Abaco (Spencer's Point, May 8). 



All tliree localities are new records, and the date at which the Great 

 Inagua specimen was taken would suggest that the species was a 

 winter resident there. At any rate, it is certainly more than "oc- 

 casional in the Bahamas in migration" (.1. 0. U. Check- List, ed. 3, 

 1910, 285). The Andros specimen is a young male which, although 

 taken at a date when the species has already reached the Middle 

 States on its northward migration, has only about half completed 

 the prenuptial moult. 



82. Pyrrhulagra violacea violacea (Linnaeus). 



Fifteen specimens: New Providence (Blue Hills); Great Inagua 

 (Alfred Sound, Mathewtown); Andros (Staniard Creek); Abaco 

 (Spencer's Point). 



Two adult males from Great Inagua are somewhat smaller than the 

 rest of the series, verging thus toward P. v. affiiiis (Baird) from the 

 neighboring island of Haiti, but I can see no color-differences. Abaco 

 birds are not distinguishable in any way from New Providence ex- 

 amples. The small specimen from Abaco referred to by Mr. Bonhote 

 {Ibis, 1903, 289), which he has courteously forwarded to me for ex- 

 amination, is, it is true, rather smaller than the average, the bill 

 especially, but is matched very closely by some of the series before me, 

 so that the fact would seem to have no special significance. 



A female in first winter dress (30639, Blue Hills, January 6) differs 

 from a male in the same stage (30570, Blue Hills, December 28), 

 not only in its smaller size, but in being decidedly more olivaceous, less 

 grayish, especially below, and in the paleness and restriction of the 

 rufous areas. The young male seems to have recently acquired fresh 

 rectrices (except the middle pair) and outer primaries, judging from 

 their darker color and unworn condition. In the character and extent 

 of the moult this species thus resembles Passerina cyanea. 



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