THE IBIS 



EIGHTH SERIES. 



No. XL JULY 1903. 



XX VII. — On a Collection of Birds from Ike Northern Islands 

 of the Bahama Group. By J. Lewis Bonhote, M.A., 

 F.Z.S. 



The following pages contain a list of birds collected in the 

 Bahamas during a trip taken for that purpose in the winter 

 of 1901-02. 



Making Nassau our headquarters, we thence carried out 

 three distinct expeditions. First we went to Andros, the 

 largest and least explored of the islands ; its eastern coast 

 extends in a long ridge some fifty or sixty feet above sea- 

 level, but towards the south and on the west the land rises 

 hardly anywhere above the sea, and is very deeply intersected 

 by broad lagoons. On the west coast there is none of the 

 rock so characteristic of the other islands, but the soil is a 

 soft white marl or mud, which partially hardens here and 

 there on the top. Except for a roving fleet of sponging- 

 vessels, this coast is quite uninhabited and hardly ever 

 visited by white people. Proceeding along it to a place 

 known as Wide Opening, we went in a small boat up 

 the creek, which at its head narrows and forms a deep 

 channel known as the River Lees. This so-called river is 

 entirely salt and is about four miles long, cutting through 

 a fairly deep ridge and opening out inside it into a 

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