52 Wermore, Birds of Culebra Island, P. R. ison 
After making a collection of birds on Vieques Island, on April 4, 
1912, I crossed to Culebra on the mail sloop “ Pedrito.”’ The port, 
Playa Sardine, was reached about ten o’clock at night and accom- 
modations were secured that night in the village. The following 
day through a letter from my friend, Mr. Harold Stiles, to Don 
Pedro Marqués I was given a two-roomed house on the hill just 
above the village and after settling my belongings, field work was 
begun. On April 11 I visited Louis Pefia or Southwest Cay and 
on the 15th crossed to Culebrita for a day. Work on Culebra was 
carried on until April 22 when I left on the return journey to Porto 
Rico. 
PHysIcaAL FEATURES. 
Culebra Island is approximately 7 miles long and from 4 to 5 
miles wide. It is roughly triangular in shape and has the south- 
eastern coast indented by a large bay known as Ensenada Honda. 
The village Playa Sardine lies at the base of the promontory be- 
tween this bay and a smaller one on the south side. The island 
is hilly, with elevations rising three or four hundred feet above the 
sea. Rolling brush-grown pastures extend inland and some of the 
hills are densely covered with forest. At Playa Sardine and at 
Playa Brava (on the north coast) are small lagoons and in the 
western part of the island is a larger one known as Flamenco. 
The coast is in the main rough with rocky projecting headlands 
and narrow sandy beaches in the bays. 
The small island of Louis Pefia (Southwest Cay) lies a mile 
southwest of Playa Sardine. It is less than a mile long and is 
rather narrow with a hill at either end and a mangrove swamp in 
the center. Holes dug in the sand and lined with boards in out of 
the way places on this island betrayed the work of smugglers whose 
activities of late years have been largely curtailed through the 
efforts of internal revenue agents. Culebrita Island east of 
Culebra is slightly larger than Louis Pefia. A lighthouse (kept 
at the time of my visit by Sefior Guillermo Morris) stands on a 
flat-topped hill 500 feet above the sea. Much of this island is low 
and there is one lagoon. Cayo Norte (North East Cay) was not 
visited. It is said to be partly cleared. Besides these three islands 
