Todd: The Birds of the Isle of Pines. 171 



There are only a few records for this species for the Isle of Pines, 

 where it is evidently not a common bird. Mr. Link did not meet 

 with it at all, the single example recorded above having been forwarded 

 to the Carnegie Museum by Mr. Frederic F. Baggesen, who secured 

 it at Los Indies on October i6, 1913. Mr. Zappey saw none in 1904, 

 and but two in March, 1902, at Laguna Grande. That the species 

 breeds on the island, however, is attested by Mr. Riley, who says that 

 he found an adult and three downy young of fair size at Santa Rosalia 

 Lagoon, southeast of Nueva Gerona, early in July, 1900. " One of 

 the downy young was secured, but the other two and the adult eluded 

 me, as they could swim and dive faster than I could wade." Mr. Read 

 enters this species on his list as a rare resident. 



3. Anhinga anhinga (Linnaeus). Water Turkey. 



Anhinga anhinga Cory, Cat. W. Indian Birds, 1892, 84 (I. of Pines, in geog. distr.). 



— GuNDLACH, Orn. Cubana, 1895, 310 (I. of Pines). — Bangs & Zappey, Am. 



Nat., XXXIX, 1905, 185 (Nueva Gerona [^c?e Palmer & Riley] and the Cienaga). 



— Read, Oologist, XXVI, 1909, 165 (Nuevas River; habits); XXVIII, 191 1, 



II (I. of Pines). — Read, I. of Pines News, VI, Dec. 20, 1913 (descr.; habits). 

 "Anhinga" Read, Forest and Stream, LXXIII, 1909, 452 (I. of Pines). — Read, 



Oologist, XXVI, 1909, 58 (I. of Pines); XXVIII, 191 1, 6, 10 (Nuevas River), 



113 (West McKinley); XXX, 1913, 130 (I. of Pines). 



Although recorded by almost all the observers who have studied 

 the avifauna of the Isle of Pines, the Anhinga or Water Turkey does 

 not seem to be a very common bird there. Mr. Zappey found it only 

 in the region of the Cienaga, where he says that individuals might be 

 seen almost any day, perched on dead branches of trees. A single 

 adult bird, still retaining some of the lengthened feathers of the 

 crown and nape, was shot by Mr. Link on the Los Indies River on 

 December 18. He saw others also on the Majagua River, and near 

 Siguanea, at the eastern end of the Cienaga. There are, however, 

 numerous records from the northern part of the island as well, to which 

 may be added those of individuals seen near Bibijagua and Santa 

 Ana by Mr. Link. Mr. Read has given us an entertaining account of 

 the fishing habits of this species as observed by him on the Nuevas 

 River. The natives consider the flesh of this bird very palatable. 



4. Phalacrocoraxauritus floridanus (Audubon) . Florida Cormorant. 



Phalacrocorax floridanus Poey, Mem. Hist. Nat. Cuba, 1854, 427 (Nueva Gerona, 

 fide Gundlach). — Gundlach, Orn. Cubana, 1895, 305 (I. of Pines). 



