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25. Porzana Carolina (Linna:>us). Sora Rail. 

 *Grcat Inaj^ua, *\Vatlings Island. 



Not unconiinon as a winter \isi(or in certain suitable situations. 

 Two were siTiircd near Malliewtown Fel)ruary 19. 



26. Gallinula galeata galeata (Lichtenstcin). Florida Gallinule, 

 Great Inagua, *\\'atlings Island. 



Rather common at Horse Pond, near Mathewtown, where a set of 

 seven eggs, in an advanced stage of incubation, was taken on February 

 22. The nest was composed of dried pond-grasses and weeds, and 

 was built in a cluster of young shoots in the top of a stump, a foot or 

 more above the water, and at some distance from the shore. Such 

 a situation, like that of the Tree Duck previously mentioned, was 

 evidently more from necessity than from choice. 



27. Fulica americana Gmelin. American Coot. 

 *Great Inagua. 



A few were seen at Horse Pond, near Mathewtown, but they were 

 very shy indeed. 



28. Larus atricilla Linn.eus. Laughing Gull. 



*Cat Island (The Bight, January 26, Port Howe, April 6), Watlings 

 Island, Abaco (Spencer's Point, I\Iay 3). 



At a house on Watlings Island there was a tame bird of this species, 

 which had been reared from a nestling. It was said to eat bread and 

 table scraps readily, and walked around as unconcerned as the chickens 

 with which it associated. 



29. Sterna maxima Boddaert. Royal Tern. 



New Providence, ^Fortune Island, Great Inagua, *Acklin Island, 

 *Cat Island, Abaco. 



Rather sparingly distributed throughout the islands in the w'inter, 



30. Sterna fuscata Linnaeus. Sooty Tern. 

 Abaco and at sea. 



Large flocks of Sooty Terns were seen far from land in "Tongue of 

 Ocean" on our voyage from Nassau to Andros on April 11. 



31. Himantopus mexicanus (Miiller). Black-necked Stilt. 

 Watlings Island, Andros. 



A small flock visited Staniard Creek, Andros, about the middle of 

 April. 



32. Gallinago delicata (Ord). Wilson Snipe. 

 New Providence, *Great Inagua, *Watlings Island. 



