166 Bangs, Cabot's Yucatan Types. [April 



pleasantest of camp sites for the Burnt Pens, ten miles away on the 

 trail to Fort Myers. 



On the way to the Burnt Pens we had a very interesting experi- 

 ence with a pair of Sandhill Cranes, whose young we discovered 

 "peeping" out on the prairie. Its peeps were to us absolutely 

 indistinguishable from the calls of the numerous Jorees in the 

 surrounding saw palmetto, and the solicitude of its parents was 

 almost human. 



We spent the night at the Burnt Pens and the next day, March 

 27, Tom and I left for Fort Myers in the automobile, leaving Peter 

 to follow with the schooner. 



I am glad to report that Tom Hand returned later to the Okaloa- 

 coochee as warden, under the auspices of the National Association 

 of Audubon Societies. There are still a few "crackers" who have 

 not yet been educated against plume hunting, and as we had, while 

 camping there, seen suspicious tracks in the swamp, Mr. T. Gilbert 

 Pearson very gladly complied with the suggestion that someone 

 be sent there to watch the rookery and its vicinity until the end of 

 the breeding season. 



CABOT'S TYPES OF YUCATAN BIRDS. 



BY OUTRAM BANGS. 



During the early days of the Boston Society of Natural History, 

 in the "fortys," Dr. Samuel Cabot, Jr., was for a short period an 

 active ornithologist. He collected birds vigorously himself and 

 exchanged with many European naturalists and dealers. He also 

 accompanied Stephens on his second expedition to Yucatan, and 

 remained in that country from October, 1841, until June, 1842, 

 visiting Cozumel Island at some time during that period. He 

 made a collection of birds, which, judged by the rather informal 

 list published in the appendix to ' Incidents of Travel in Yucatan' 

 by John L. Stephens (Vol. II, p. 469), must have been fairly repre- 

 sentative, and was certainly the first collection of any size to come 

 out of the region. 



