52 TRANSACTIONS OF THE [JAN. 12, 
Dr. H. T. VULTE was proposed as Fellow of the Atademy by 
Pror. N. L. Britton, 
January 12th, 1891. 
STATED MEETING. 
Vick-PRESIDENT Dr. HuBBARD in the chair. 
About thirty-five persons present. 
Minutes of January 5th were read and approved, 
The following paper was read : 
BAHAMAN BIRDS. 
BY DR. JOHN I. NORTHROP. 
(Abstract. ) 
After afew preliminary remarks upon the situation and size 
of the Bahamas, the speaker stated that a paper giving the de- 
tails of the collection of birds would appear in the Aw for 
January. He stated that all the species, seventy-four in num- 
ber, were represented by the specimens on the table, but that he 
would only call attention to the most interesting. 
The following birds were then exhibited and remarked upon: 
Miniocichla plumbea, Mimus polyglottis, Mimus Gundlachi, 
Polioptila cerulea cesiogaster, Sciurus aurocapillus, Glothlypis 
rostrata (a local form, slightly differing from the typical species 
found on New Providence), Callichelidon cyaneoviridis, Dori- 
cha evelyne, Sporadinus ricordi, Chordeiles minor, Icturus Nor- 
thropi (a new species of a genus not before reported from the 
Bahamas, and which has been described and named by Dr. J. A. 
Allen), Cocyzus minor Maynardi,Saurothera Bahamensis, Pheni- 
copterus ruber (the habits and mode of capture being described), 
Nycti corax nycticorax nevius (new to the Bahamas), Rallus 
Coreyi, Ardea Bahamensis, and several other water birds. 
The speaker also mentioned finding in the stomach of Autros- 
tomus Carolinensis an entire hummingbird sufficiently undi- 
gested to identify as Sporadinus ricordt. 
He stated that the only mammals on Andros were bats, rats, 
and mice. The bat was Macrotus Waterhousei,, and the rat 
1 Kindly determined by Prof. J. A. Allen. 
