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Family LARID^. 
2. LARUS ATRICILLA (Linnaeus). 
LAUGHING GULL. 
Small flocks of 6 or 8 seen along the beaches at La Giiaira. 
Family PELECANID^. 
3. PELECANUS OCCIDENTALIS (Linnaeus). 
BROWN PELICAN. 
A good man}^ seen near Ija Guaira and around a mangrove swamp 
at San Julian. 
Family FREGATID.E. 
4. FREGATA AQUILA (Linnaeus). 
MAN-O'-WAR BIRD. 
Common in the vicinity of La Guaira. 
Family ARDEID.E. 
5. TIGRISOMA SALMONI Sclater and Salvin. 
.SALMON'S TIGER BITTERN. 
Mr. Lyon secured a specimen at Macuto on August 10. It was 
young, the neck feathers showing still the characteristic yellow fila- 
mentous tippings. 
Dr. Sharpe has placed T. cabanisi of Central America in a new 
genus, Ileterocnus^ on account of its naked throat. However, in both 
his original diagnosis^ and his key^ he has reversed the actual condi- 
tions, making Heterocnus the form with the throat feathered on the 
median line, and Tigrisonia the naked-throated one. 
Family SCOLOPACID^E. 
6. TRINGA MINUTILLA Vieillot. 
LEAST SANDPIPER. 
A specimen was found dead by a puddle in the road near Macuto on 
August 10. It was greatly emaciated. Tarsi greenish yellow. 
7. EREUNETES PUSILLUS (Linnaeus). 
SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER. 
Two specimens were given to Mr. Lyon at Macuto on August 10 by 
a boy who had snared them on the beach. Tarsi dark green. 
iBull. Brit. Orn. Club, V, 1895, p. xiv. 
^Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXVI, 1898, p. 59. 
