iSS7-] Scott on the Bird Rookeries of Southern Florida. I"2C 



supraloral stripe of orange, from base of bill to eye. including upper eye- 

 lid; a patch of orange below the eye, more intense on the right side than 

 on the left, extending' back over the upper part of the ear-coverts, and 

 forward narrowly (on the left side only) to the rictus. Chin and part of 

 the throat intense cadmium yellow. There is also a very appreciable 

 tinge of this color on the yellow of the breast. The maxillary stripe is 

 ash mixed with black. The streaks on the sides are nearly obsolete. 

 "Length, 4.50; extent, 6.37; wing. 2.00; tail, 1.75" (collector's measure- 

 ments from the fresh bird).* 



Mr. Atkins says that at the time he took this bird he saw 

 another which appeared to him to he identical with it. but a 

 careful search later in the season has failed to bring to light any 

 other specimens. 



THE PRESENT CONDITION OF SOME OF THE 



BIRD ROOKERIES OF THE GULF COAST 



OF FLORIDA. 



BY W. E. D. SCOTT. 



First Paper. 



Ox Friday. April 30, 1SS6, I started from the town of Tarpon 

 Springs in Hillsboro' County, Florida, to make a cruise of a few 

 weeks along the west coast, to investigate matters ornithological. 

 It was a journey without any objective point. I had in mind only 

 to go as far south as possible, in the time at my disposal, passing 

 over some ground that had been familiar to me six years before. 



* [The specimen in question is remarkable for its small size.it being considerably 

 smaller even than average West Indian examples of females of D. discolor; one (of 

 several kindly loaned me by Mr. Ridgway for comparison), however, proves to be 

 full} .1 bile others are somewhat larger. In a large series from Florida in the 



Cambridge Museum of Comparative Zoology, with which I haye compared Mr. At- 

 kins's specimen, none are quite so small, but the ashy coloring of the maxillary stripe, 

 the auriculars, and sides of the nape is met with in other specimens, and one or two 

 show traces of th imatism' displayed by the specimen from Mr. 



Atkins. Xo single specimen, however, has all of these ashy markings combined, they 

 being found separately in different specimens. The asymetry in respect to the height- 

 ened color on the two sides of the head suggests that the specimen in question is not 

 only exceptionally small, but abnormal in coloration. The general effect is unique, 

 and at first sight suggests probable specific distinctness from D. discolor. — J. A. A.] 



