1915 J Bangs, Cabot's Yucatan Types. 167 



Altogether Dr. Cabot amassed a collection of the birds of the 

 world that at the time must have been a very fair working collec- 

 tion. He followed the custom, unfortunately too prevelant among 

 naturalists of his day, of keeping very insufficient data — or none 

 at all — attached to his skins. Soon after his death in 1885 his 

 birds were presented to the Boston Society of Natural History. 

 At that time the collection had dwindled sadly from its former 

 numbers, largely, I have been told, on account of the depredations 

 of the cloths moth, and partly, I feel sure, from specimens having 

 been mounted with no record of whence they came then put on 

 exhibition, and finally lost sight of. 



Last year the collection was again transferred, this time to the 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology, where I have carefully gone over 

 it all. 



A charming little account of the bird work of Dr. Cabot and his 

 two brothers can be found in Brewster's ' Birds of the Cambridge 

 Region,' beginning on page 81. A still more intimate acquaint- 

 ance with Dr. Cabot's activities can be had from a large portfolio, 

 preserved in the library of the Boston Society of Natural History 

 and containing manuscripts of his various papers, many un- 

 published anatomical discussions often accompanied by fine original 

 drawings, lists of exchanges and letters from most of the orni- 

 thologists of his day, both European and American. 



Dr. Cabot during his short career as an ornithologist described 

 no new birds except those collected by himself in Yucatan. The 

 types of all except two of these I have found. 



Besides the types listed below there still exist specimens of the 

 following species, that for one reason or another I am certain were 

 collected by Cabot himself in Yucatan. — Agriocharis ocellata 

 (Cuv.); Eupsychortyx nigrigularis (Gould); Columba leucocephala 

 Linn.; C. flavirostris Wagl.; Melopelia asiatica trudeaui (Audu- 

 bon); Colymbus dominicus brachypterus Chapman; Asarcia spinosa 

 (Linn.); Ajaja ajaja (Linn.); Florida coerulea (Linn.); Dichroma- 

 nassa rufa (Bodd.) ; Leucophoyx candidissima candid^ssima (Gml.) ; 

 Polyborus cheriway (Jacq.) ; Buteo borealis calurus Cass. ; Asturina 

 plagiata Schl. ; Rupornis magnirostris conspecta Peters; Urubitinga 

 anthracina (Licht.); Herpetotheres cachinnans (Linn.); Glaucidium 

 brasilianum ridgwayi Sharpe; Amizilis rutila rutila (Delattre); 



