from the Northern Bahamas. 297 



bluish white in colour — oil one there were no markings 

 whatever, but on the other there were a few irregular smudges 

 of brown. 



Measurements : 56 x 47 mm. 



My female agrees exactly with the description of the 

 type, and therefore I have placed it under its new name. 

 I can, however, see no difference between this and specimens 

 from the Eastern States ; but the series of the southern 

 specimens being small, it is impossible to be quite certain. 



4-52. Pandion carolinensis (Gmel.). 



Pandion halia'ctus (Linn.); Cory, Bds. Bah. 2nd ed. p. 131 

 (1890). 



Pandion haliaetus carolinensis (Gmel.) ; Cory, Cat. W. Ind. 

 Bds. p. 99 (1892). 



? ad. Spanish Wells, Andros, 2nd February, 1902. 



<J ad. „ „ 22nd February, 1902. 



S imm. „ „ 3rd March, 1902. 



S imm. Grassy Creek, Andros, 9th May, 1902. 



When perfectly adult these birds are of a uniform brown 

 on the back and wing-coverts. The head is nearly pure 

 white, only a very few of the feathers having dark brown shafts. 

 In the young in its first plumage all the feathers of the back 

 have broad pale yellow margins, while a large proportion of 

 the feathers of the head have black shafts. The feathers on 

 the back of the crown and nape are deeply tinged with 

 rufous, which colour extends as a slightly lighter tint to 

 the throat. A bird shot in May has the back nearly pure 

 brown, while the light edgings to the wing-coverts shew a 

 considerable amount of wear. A specimen alive in captivity, 

 which was taken from the nest on the 31st of January, and 

 was full-fledged about three weeks later, began to moult at 

 the end of July, and had by November assumed the pure 

 brown back, the wing-coverts shewing considerably less white 

 than before, the tail and flight-feathers were also moulted. 



1 met with two nests of this species, both of which were 

 huge structures placed on the top of small mangrove-clumps 

 some fifteen to twenty feet from the ground. I saw young 

 birds on the wing with their parents at the end of January, 



