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examples of Callichelidon cijaneo-viridis (Bryant) from Nipe 

 Bay in north-west Cnba, killed by Mr. V. Cameron Forbes 

 ill JNIarch. This species was previously supposed to be con- 

 fined to the Bahamas. In the second paper he confirms 

 Mr. J. N. Kennedy's belief that the Bermuda Crow is the 

 common eastern North-American species, Corvus b. brachy- 

 rhynchos, which is said to have been introduced into those 

 islands about 1876. 



It is always of interest to know where the original 

 types, especially of species described by older authors, are to 

 be found. Those of Dr. Samuel Cabot, Jr., who in the 

 " forties " of last century travelled in Yucatan and amassed 

 a considerable collection of birds, which are described in an 

 appendix to * Incidents of Travel in Yucatan,' by John L. 

 Stephens (London, 181'3), were, after Dr. Cabot's death, 

 presented to the Boston Society of Natural History, and 

 have now passed into the possession of the Museum of 

 Comparative Zoology at Cambridge, Mass. A li^t of such of 

 these types that are still identifiable is given in Mr. Bangs's 

 third paper. 



The fourth paper has already been referred to in our pages 

 {antea, p. 76) ; the following one deals with the birds of the 

 Cayman Islands, and discusses a collection made in 1911 by 

 Mr. W. W. Brown, Jr., between the months of April and 

 May. Some interesting remarks are made by Mr. Bangs on 

 the sources whence the bird-life peculiar to the islands has 

 been derived, and a new subspecies (Amazona leucocephala 

 hesterna) is proposed for the Parrot inhabiting Little Cayman 

 and Cayman Brae, which is believed to be distinct from that 

 (A. I. caymanensis) inhal)iting Grand Cayman. In view of 

 the remarks of Mr. English (Ibis, antea, p. 17) on the varia- 

 bility of the Cayman Parrot, this may perhaps be hardly 

 justifiable. 



The last two papers on the list are short : one contains 

 descriptions of Tiiyra semifasciata deses from Yucatan, 

 I'urdus migratorius phiUipsi from Vera Cruz, and Cyano- 

 conipsa parellina beneplacita from Tamaulipas, all new sub- 

 species from Mexico. The last paper reviews the Moorhens 



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