WoRTHINGTON: OuM I IIOLOCY Ol' BaHAMA IsLANDS. 44.'i 



6. Phalacrocorax vigua mexicanus (HraiulO. Mexican COkmokant. 

 Wcilliniis Island, (? Cat Island). 



Common at the lake on Watlings Island, where there was an aban- 

 doned rookery, which we visited on March i6. The nests were built 

 in the fringe of mangrove on the east side of the lake near the light- 

 house, and were made of sticks, and covered with excrement. As 

 they were as a rule at an elevation of but si.\ or ten feet they were 

 readily examined, and many were found to contain dead young, 

 about half-grown, in various stages of decomposition. No reason 

 could be assigned for this mortality. 



7. Pelecanus occidentalis Linnaeus. Brown Pelican. 

 *Great Inagua, Andros. 



Apparently not common. A single individual landed on the beach 

 near the lighthouse at Mathewtown, February 25, but I was unable 

 to get within gunshot. 



8. Fregata aquila Linnaeus. Man-o'-war-bird. 



*Ship Channel Cay (January 24), Cat Island (Long Rock, January 

 25, The Bight, January 26, off Port Howe, April 7), Great Inagua, 

 *Acklin Island, Watlings Island, Abaco. i 



Usually observed sailing high in the air, but on one occasion a 

 number were seen doing the "dipping act" at Calefavor Pond, Great 

 Inagua, where a single specimen was secured February 11. 



9. Phcenicopterus ruber Linnaeus. American Flamingo. 

 Great Inagua, Abaco. 



On February 5 a trip was made to Calefavor Pond, some six or seven 

 miles to the southeast of Mr. Boucher's camp at the head of Alfred 

 Sound, in search of Flamingoes, the locality being a noted feeding- 

 ground. The birds were said to frequent two large bunches of man- 

 grove in the center of the pond, but although tracks were seen, and 

 some feathers picked up, only a single Flamingo was observed, circling 

 high overhead, his brilliant plumage flashing in the bright sunlight. 

 That the birds had recently been using this series of flats and shallows 

 as a feeding-ground, however, was amply attested by their numerous 

 "feeding-rings" — circular marks about the size of a wagon-wheel, 

 formed by the birds, while in search of their favorite food (a small 

 snail), standing in one place in the shallow water and stirring up the 

 bottom in a circle as far as they can reach. These rings show very 

 plainly after the water has dried up, and the dry flats and shallows 



