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ity, though I am told it is seen at rare intervals in the woods sixty miles 

 farther south. — Wm. Alansox Bryan, Chicago, III. 



A Bahaman Bird (Centurus nyeanus) Apparently Extinct. — The only 

 known specimen of this Woodpecker, I shot on Watling's Island, 

 Bahamas, March 5, 18S6. He may have been the last of his kind, 

 for although a week was spent on said island, and a great many holes 

 made by Woodpeckers were seen in the dead trees, still all looked old. 

 None seen were fresh. The one this bird flew out of was made in a dead 

 stump, about fifteen feet high and eighteen inches in diameter; the hole 

 was well up towards the top; the location was about a quarter of a mile 

 from the lighthouse then being erected. During the week spent in 

 collecting, not a Woodpecker of any kind was seen or heard on the 

 island. — Willard Nye, Jr., New Bedford, Muss. 



The Chuck-will's-widow on Shipboard. — On a steamer from Sav- 

 anna, Georgia, to New York, in April, 1898, my father and I made some 

 very interesting observations on the Chuck-will's-widow (Antrostomus 

 carolinensis). We left Savanna on the iSth of April, and early in the 

 morning of the 19th, when we were about fifty miles from the coast of 

 southern South Carolina, a bird of this species came aboard. My father 

 caught sight of it sailing along a short distance behind the ship, and the 

 next instant it had alighted on the railing of the upper deck not far from 

 where he stood. After sitting there about thirty seconds, it darted down- 

 ward and disappeared amidst the cargo on the lower deck, and a careful 

 search failed to reveal it. 



Several Warblers (Dendroica striata and D. palmarum), made their 

 appearance during the morning, but the Chuck-will's-widow remained 

 concealed. At two o'clock in the afternoon, however, while we were look- 

 ing at a beautiful Hooded Warbler ( Wilsonia mitrata) which had just 

 come aboard, the long sought Antrostomus suddenly darted out from 

 the lower deck and flew swiftly away in an easterly direction. We were 

 amazed that it had not started toward land, but thought we had the key 

 to the mystery, when, as the bird began to fade in the distance, it sank 

 closer and closer to the water and at last settled on a wave-top for an 

 instant. The bird seemed to have completely lost its bearings, and found 

 itself too exhausted to fly, and we, thinking ' that this was the end, 

 returned to our study of the Warbler, which had grown completely tame, 

 and was catching flies at the feet of the passengers. A minute later our 

 eyes lighted on a dark speck in the air off to the eastward, and we soon 

 recognized the Chuck-will's-widow, flying lightly and strongly, and head- 

 ing toward the ship. In a short time it had reached us, but instead of 

 alighting, it swept over the top deck and kept on over the sea to the west- 

 ward, and soon disappeared in the distance. This time, however, we 

 expected it back, and sure enough, Avithin three minutes we saw it sailing 

 along over the ocean west of us far ahead of the ship, and flying in a 

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