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c. <^ imm. Rabicho, Brazil. Oct. 8, 1909. 



d. S ad. Boca de Homiguera, Brazil. Oct. 9, 1909. 

 e,/. (J ? ad. 10 miles below Boca de Homiguera, Brazil. 



Oct. 12, 1909. 



S. Irides grey-brown ; bill black; legs and toes slate- 

 coloured. 



$ . Bill slate-coloured ; otherwise as male. 



The young males are moulting from the grey plumage to 

 the black. 



Very few examples of this bird were seen : it was ob- 

 served frequenting the thick undergrowth along the river- 

 bank and was very tame. 



[To be continued.] 



lY. — On the Birds of the Cayman Islands, West Indies. 

 By Percy R. Lowe, B.A., M.B. (Cantab.), M.B.O.U. 



(Text-figure 7.) 



(i.) Introductory Remarks. 



In the following paper I have endeavoured to compile a list 

 of the Birds of the Cayman Islands on the lines of the 

 " Revised List of the Birds of Jamaica/' by Dr. P. L. Sclater, 

 which was published in the 'Handbook of Jamaica' for 1910. 



The Cayman Islands (see text-fig. 7, p. 138), which form 

 a political dependency of Jamaica, are situated in the western 

 end of the Caribbean Sea, between the meridians of 79° 44' 

 and 81° 26' W., and the parallels of 19° 49' and 19° 46' N. 

 They consist of three islands — Grand Cayman, Little 

 Cayman, and Cayman Brae. 



The island of Grand Cayman is seventeen miles in length 

 and between four and seven miles in width. 



Little Cayman and Cayman Brae are each about nine 

 miles long by one and a half wide. They lie about six miles 

 apart. The west end of Little Cayman is some sixty miles 



