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The only mammals collected during the whole cruise were 

 some specimens of il/acrotiis zva/crliousii Gray secured by Mr. 

 Wick ham in a cave on the island of Eleuthera. This is one 

 of the " leaf-nosed" bats belonging to the family Megader- 

 MATiD.-E. The ears are enormous, their bases meeting at the 

 top of the head, and having conspicuous tragi. A fleshy 

 appendage projects upward from the nose, resembling the 

 horn of a rhinoceros in front view. The tail projects slightl}' 

 beyond the interfemoral membrane, which is supported by a 

 ver}' long calcar or accessor}^ ossicle. The dental formula is 

 m. '\ c. '. i. -^. The animal is about the size of our Alalapha 

 iiovchoraccusis. or perhaps a little smaller. 



The following list of the birds of Eleuthera is made up 

 partly from species secured at this time, and partly from a 

 collection made by the writer at the same place in the sum- 

 mer of 1888: 



Lanis atricilla Linn., laughing gull; Gclochelidon nilotica 

 (Hasselq. ). gull-billed tern; Sterna maxima Bodd., royal 

 tern; StcDia aiitillanim (Less.), least tern; Sterna ancethet us 

 Scop., bridled tern; Anoiis stoI/'Jiis (Linn.), noddy; Piifflnus 

 iuidnboni Finsch, Audubon's shearwater; Phaethon flavirostn's 

 Brandt, yellow-billed tropic bird; Fregata aqiiihi (Linn.), 

 man-o'-war bird; Arde.i rirescciis Linn., green heron; A^ycti- 

 curax violaceus (Linn.), yellows-crowned night heron; ^gia- 

 litis iv/isonia (Ord.), Wilson's plover; Colitmbigallina passen'na 

 (Linn.), ground dove; Speotyto ciinicularia floridana Ridgw.. 

 Florida burrowing owl; Strix fammca -pratincola Cory, Ba- 

 hama barn owl; Chordeiles virginianiis minor (Cab.), Cuban 

 night-hawk; Loxigilla vioJacea !)ahamensis Ridgw., Bahama 

 grosbeak; Tyrannus dominicensis (Gmel.), grey king-bird; 

 EuetJieia I)icoIur ( Linn) , grass quit; Certhiola bahamensis Reich., 

 Bahama honey-creeper; and Alimiis giindlachi Cab., Bahama 

 mocking-bird. It will be noticed that of the nine land-birds 

 enumerated, above, only two, the ground dove and burrowing 

 owl, are North American, the remainder being purely West 

 Indian. Perhaps the most conspicuous bird of them all, and 

 certainly the most attractive, is the Bahama mocking-bird, 



