THE AUK: 



A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF 



ORNITHOLOGY. 



Vol. xxn. April, 1905. No. 2. 



SUMMER BIRDS IN THE BAHAMAS. 



BY GLOVER M. ALLEN. 



Plate I. 



This is the third of a series of short papers on the results of 

 a visit 'to the northern Bahamas in July, 1904, made by the writer 

 in company with Mr. Thomas Barbour and Mr. Owen Bryant. 



Notwithstanding that the birds of the Bahamas are now fairly 

 well known, the following account of the species observed during 

 our cruise among the cays and larger islands of the northern part 

 of the group is of interest partly because most of the ornithologi- 

 cal work in this region has been done in the winter and spring, 

 and partly because these northern islands are apt to be neglected 

 by visitors who pass at once to those of the more southern and 

 eastern groups. Indeed, the summer avifauna of Great Bahama 

 and the northeastern cays is very little known. Mr. F. M. Chap- 

 man, so recently as 189 1, wrote that of "Great Bahama we know 

 nothing ; no ornithologist has ever visited it." l Later in the same 

 year, however, Cory 2 published a list of birds obtained by his 

 collector, C. S. Winch, at Great Bahama and Abaco, in March and 

 June. Mr. Robert Ridgway 3 listed the specimens obtained in 

 March and April from Abaco and the more southern islands by 



1 Chapman : Amer. Naturalist, Vol. XXV, 1891, p. 536. 



2 Cory: Auk, Vol. VIII, 1891, pp. 298, 350. 



3 Ridgway : Auk, Vol. VIII, 1891, p. 333-339- . 



