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for miles around were completely covered with them. We were told 

 that Flamingoes were found dead in hundreds afttr the hurricane of 

 October, 1908. The only specimen secured was taken February 20, 

 near Mathewtown. At Abaco the negroes were offering for sale 

 wings and other parts of the plumage of recently killed Flamingoes, 

 while we were informed that they are found on Acklin Island also. 



10. Ardea herodias herodias Linnaeul. Great Blue Heron. 



New Providence, Great Inagua, *Acklin Island, *Watlings Island, 

 *Abaco. 



Not common, and exceedingly wary, as they are shot for food at 

 every opj^ortunity. Mr. Boucher informed us that they are very 

 destructive to the young green and hawk-billed turtles in his turtle- 

 rearing lagoons, devouring them as soon as hatched. 



11. Dichromanassa rufescens (Gmelin). Reddish Egret. 

 *Great Inagua, *Watlings Island. 



Rather common at Calefavor Pond, Great Inagua, where a colony 

 was breeding in a small clump of mangroves, the nests containing 

 good -sized young at the time of our visit (February 5). While 

 both phases were repres^ited, white birds predominated. I am of 

 the opinion that many of the Bahaman records of the American Egret 

 really apply to the present species in the white phase. The species 

 was once recorded on Watlings Island, March 16. 



12. Hydranassa tricolor ruficollis (Gosse). Louisiana Heron. 

 *Great Inagua, Watlings Island. 



Noted at Calefavor Pond, February 5, Alfred Sound February il, 

 and on Watlings Island March 11. On February 17, while en route 

 from Alfred Sound to Mathewtown, a Louisiana Heron came in past 

 us from the open sea, acting as if much fatigued, but finally making 

 the shore, a mile distant. As the nearest land in the direction from 

 which it came is Acklin Island, it had apparently made the flight of 

 seventy-five miles. 



13. Florida caerulea (Linnceus). Little Blue Heron. 

 *Watlings Island, Andros. 



Not common, and, together with the last species, everywhere 

 hunted for food by the inhabitants. 



14. Butorides virescens bahamensis (Brewster). Bahama Green 



Heron. 

 New Providence, Great Inagua, Watlings Island, Andros, Abaco. 



