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during his residence there for a year, beginning in June, 1912. Mr. 

 Link is entitled to great credit for making such a fine collection, 

 working as he did under unusual embarrassments, due in part to ill 

 health, on account of which he had been ordered by his physician 

 to a warmer climate. Although he succeeded in covering the island 

 fairly well, it is to be regretted that he was unable to devote more time 

 to the investigation of the southern coast and the eastern part of the 

 Cienaga, or Central Swamp, the avifauna of which sections proved to 

 be unusually interesting. Unfortunately, too, because of inexperience 

 in recording observations, his field-notes are somewhat meager, and 

 leave much to be desired. In many cases they have been supple- 

 mented in the preparation of this paper by the published observations 

 of other parties, particularly those of Mr. Arthur C. Read, a local 

 observer, and the late Mr. Walter R. Zappey. Under each species 

 all published references have been collated, so far as they relate to 

 the Isle of Pines. 



In addition to the material brought back by Mr. Link, the writer 

 has had the opportunity of examining many of the more interesting 

 specimens collected by Mr. Zappey in 1904, for which privilege he is 

 indebted to Mr. Outram Bangs. The critical study and comparison 

 of this new material has served to fix with greater certainty a number 

 of doubtful cases of status and relationships among the forms involved, 

 while it has also incidentally revealed the existence of some additional 

 geographical variants in the adjoining island of Cuba. It is evident 

 that much remains to be done even in Cuba before a full and accurate 

 understanding of its ornis can be reached. For the loan of specimens 

 from the West Indies for use in this connection the writer is indebted 

 not only to Mr. Bangs, as mentioned, but also to Mr. Charles T. Rams- 

 den, of Guantanamo, Cuba, Mr. Frank M. Chapman, of the American 

 Museum of Natural History, Mr. Charles B. Cory, of the Field Museum 

 of Natural History, and Dr. Charles W. Richmond, of the U. S. 

 National Museum. He is further under obligations to Messrs. William 

 Palmer and Joseph H. Riley for the use of their field-notes made during 

 a visit to the Isle of Pines in 1900, and to Mr. Riley and Dr. Richmond 

 for additional data and information. Mr. Robert Ridgway has very 

 generously permitted him to describe here the new form of Columha 

 inornata from the Isle of Pines in advance of the appearance of the 

 forthcoming part of that author's Birds of North and Middle America, 

 while Dr. Jonathan Dwight, Dr. Louis B. Bishop, and Mr. Henry 



