Vol. XXVIII 

 1911 



Todd, Bahaman Species of Gebthlypis. 239 



able to find them in any numbers. Mr. Maynard's specimens 

 were scattered, the greater part, however, going into the collec- 

 tions of Messrs. E. A. and 0. Bangs and of Mr. G. S. Miller, Jr., 

 the latter thence into the British Museum, being thus lost to 

 ornithologists in this country. 



Up to 1897, although meanwhile, as we have seen, certain of the 

 other islands had been credited with what were considered repre- 

 sentative insular forms, no one seems to have suspected the exis- 

 tence of two supposedly distinct species on New Providence- and 

 "it is to Mr. Maynard's great acuteness as a collector that this 

 unlooked for discovery is due." While collecting these birds that 

 season he noticed that they had " two different songs, and making- 

 notes on the birds he shot, soon found that two distinct species 

 were breeding equally commonly there. The smaller, duller 

 colored bird, G. rostrata, sings like a Maryland Yellow-throat. 

 The larger, more highly colored species, sings like G. coryi, — a 

 song so different that Mr. Maynard says, no one on first hearing 

 it would take it for the performance of a Yellow-throat." ' Mr. 

 Bangs accordingly described the latter form under the name 

 GeotMypis maynardi, after its discoverer, pointing out its obvious 

 distinctive characters as compared with G. rostrata. Thus matters 

 rested until 1902, when Mr. Ridgway 2 described a second form 

 from Abaco, G. incompta, one from Andros, G. exigua, and a third 

 from New Providence. G. fiavida, the latter having originally been 

 recorded as a probably accidental occurrence of G. coryi by Mr. 

 Bangs. Mr. Ridgway also discussed the case of these Bahaman 

 forms at considerable length, and, while provisionally retaining 

 them all as full species, he at the same time suggested that even- 

 tually they would have to stand as follows: 



1. Geothlypis rostrata. New Providence. 



2. Geothlypis tanneri tanneri. Abaco. 



3. Geothlypis tanneri maynardi. New Providence.. 



4. Geothlypis incompta incompta. Abaco. 



5. Geothlypis incompta exigua. Andros. 

 0. Geothlypis coryi coryi. Eleuthera. 



7. Geothlypus coryi flarida. New T Providence. 



i Bangs, Auk, XVII. 1900, 290. 



°- Birds N. and Mid. Am., II, 1902, 677, 678. 



