Birds of the Cayman Islands. 



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Note. — Mr. Cory has considered the Myiarchus found on Grand Cayman 

 to be worthy of specific rank, and has giyen it the name of deni- 

 gratus. I think that there can be no question that the bird is 

 identical with M. smir<e of Cuba. Mr. Eidgway considers the 

 Ground Dove to be peculiar to the island so far as subspecific rank is 

 concerned. He calls it insular is. 



From this list it will be noticed that tliere are no genera 

 peculiar to the islands. The genus Melopyrrha is, however, 

 met with in no other locality except Cuba. 



Mr. Ridgway (Birds North & Middle Amer. pt. i. p. 562) 

 says : " This genus is an exaggeration of Sporophila, but 

 between the most similar species of the latter and the type 

 of Melopyrrha there is a considerable gap.'^ 



Spindalis is a well-marked genus which, with the excep- 

 tion of Cozumel Island off Yucatan {S. benedicti), is restricted 

 elsewhere to the Bahamas and the Greater Antillean Islands 

 (Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Porto Rico). The species 

 peculiar to Grand Cayman is very distinct. 



Mimocichla is another interesting genus restricted else- 

 where to the Bahamas, Cuba, Hispaniola, Porto Rico, and 



