xxvi VOYAGES OF A NATURALIST 



St. Thomas, 21st to 24th February ; 

 Porto Rico, 24th to 26th February ; 

 Jamaica, 29th February to 8th March ; 

 Grand Cayman, 9th to 13th March ; 

 Little Cayman, 13th to 14th March ; 

 Havana, Cuba, 17th to 21st March ; 

 Punta Gorda, Florida, 22nd March to 4th April; 

 Key West, Florida, 5th to 8th April ; 

 Bermuda, 13th to 20th April ; 

 St. Michael's, Azores, 29th April to 2nd May ; 

 Cowes, 8th May. 



The number of birds obtained during this trip 

 to the West Indies somewhat exceeded four 

 hundred, of which the following three proved to 

 be new to science : 



Dendrceca crawfordi, from Little Cayman ; 



Vireo laurae, from Grenada ; 



Pitangus caymanensis, from Grand Cayman. 



The birds found in all the West Indian Islands 

 are of great interest, as no two islands have an 

 avifauna exactly similar, so that all our collections 

 were of value. The Cayman Islands specimens 

 are worthy of particular notice, as nearly all the 

 resident birds are peculiar to the islands, and 

 there were previously very few specimens from 

 this locality in the British Museum. 



About one hundred fishes and reptiles were 

 also obtained, but not one was new, nor were 

 there any of great rarity. The most interesting, 

 perhaps, were the five fine specimens of tarpon, 

 which we caught off the Florida coast. These 

 ranged in size from 40 to 95 pounds in weight, 



