November 30, 1923 VoL ^^ 10MW 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



NEW ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL CLUB 



ANOTHER NEW BAHAMAN IGUANA 



BY THOMAS BARBOUR 



In 1916 Dr. Noble and I revised the Cycluras (Bull. M. C. Z., 

 60, Feb., 1916, pp. 139-164, pis. 1-15). Since that time Mr. 

 K. P. Schmidt has added a new form, Cyclura cristata, from 

 White Cay near Watlings Island. Now it is possible to add 

 another. Maynard told me, when he returned from the Ba- 

 hamas with the type of C. inornata, that there were iguanas on 

 Bitter Guana Cay, and he was so quoted in the revision (1. c, 

 p. 141). Still no one knew what this species might be, albeit 

 we surmised that surely it was an undescribed form. Last sum- 

 mer the Natural History Museum of Denver, Colorado, sent 

 an expedition to the Bahama Islands, under the leadership of 

 Mr. Alfred M. Bailey. The chance notice of a photograph 

 showing the party with some captured iguanas on Bitter Guana 

 Cay, impelled me to write to the Museum, and in prompt and 

 most courteous response a series of six salted skins reached 

 Cambridge in a few days. A glance showed at once that this 

 was a new species allied to, but very distinct from, Cyclura 

 inornata Barbour and Noble. At Mr. Bailey's request I am 

 dedicating the species to his chief, J. D. Figgins, Esq., the 



