174 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



September, while on Pelican Island, Florida, two broods are said to 

 be raised, one in May and one in September. The difference in 

 the time of nesting would readily account for the presence of birds in 

 winter or non-breeding plumage at the same season as those in full 

 nuptial dress. 



Although the Brown Pelican has been occasionally noted in the 

 northern part of the Isle of Pines, it is far more numerous about the 

 " south coast." Mr. Link found it to be very common at Caleta 

 Grande on November 26 and 27, and again in April, fishing in the 

 shallow water. Individuals were noted also at Cabo Frances, Los 

 Indios, the Majagua River, and at Punta del Este, at the southeastern 

 corner of the island. It is evident that the breeding-place of these 

 birds must be somewhere along this_ coast, but it was not discovered, 

 nor did any of the natives seem to be aware of its location. Probably 

 it is in some retired inlet or lagoon, or perhaps on one of the isolated 

 cays not yet visited by any ornithologist. 



7. Pelecanus erythrorhynchos Gmelin. White Pelican. 



Pelecanus erythrorhynchus Cory, Cat. W. Indian Birds, 1892, 85 (I. of Pines, in 

 geog. distr.), 136 (I. of Pines, ex ?). — Bangs & Z.\ppey, Am. Nat., XXXIX, 



1905, 185 (I. of Pines, ex Cory). 



The claim of the White Pelican to a place in the present list rests 

 solely on the authority of Mr. Cory, as above. I have been unable 

 to discover upon what grounds his record is based. There is but one 

 authentic record for Cuba, and if it occurs in the Isle of Pines at all 

 it can only be as a very rare and irregular winter visitor. 



8. Fregata magnificens Matthews. Man-o'-war-bird. 



Fregala aquila Poey, Mem. Hist. Nat. Cuba, 1854, 427 (Nueva Gerona. fide 

 Gundlach). — Cory, Cat. W. Indian Birds, 1892, 85 (I. of Pines, in geog. distr.). — 

 Bangs & Zappey, Am. Nat., XXXIX, 1905, 185 (Manigua, fide Palmer & Riley, 

 Santa Fe, and "south coast"). 



''Frigate Bird" Read, Oologist, XXVIII, 1911, 13, and XXX, 1913, 130 (I. of 

 Pines). — Read, I. of Pines News, VI, Apr. 25, 1914 (Siguanea Bay). 



Fifteen specimens: Bird Island. 



This species, although apt to be seen flying over on occasion almost 

 anywhere in the island, inland as well as coastwise, is not known to 

 breed locally, except on a small mangrove cay near the head of Siguanea 

 Bay, known as Bird Island. Here a colony of several hundred indi- 

 viduals is established, occupying an extensive area on the south side 

 of the island, while the Florida Cormorants are confined to another 



