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11. Ereunetes pusillus. (Little Stint.) 



Ereunetes pusillus Cory, Auk, iii. p. 502 (1886); Sharpe, 

 Hand-1. B. i. p. 162 (1899). 



Hah. North America : winter visitor to the Caymans. 



12. LiMONiTES MiNUTiLLA. (Least Stint) . 

 Tringa minutilla Cory, Auk, iii. p. 502 (1886). 

 Limonites minutilla Sharpe, Hand-1. B. i. p. 163 (1899). 

 Hab. North America : winter visitor to the Caymans. 



13. Heteropygia maculata. (Pectoral Sandpiper.) 

 Tringa maculata Vieill. ; Cory, Auk, iii. p. 502 (1886). 

 Heteropygia maculata (V.) ; Sharpe, Hand-1. B. i. p. 163 



(1899). 

 Hab. North America : winter visitor to the Caymans 



^4. Gallinago delicata. (Wilson^s Snipe.) 

 Gallinago delicata Sharpe, Hand-1. B. i. p. 165 (1899). 

 Hab. North America : winter visitor to the West Indies 



and Central America. 



I shot one or two examples of this bird in some marshes 



on the southern side of Grand Cayman. I have found no 



other records of its occurrence there, 



•^15. Hydraxassa RuncoLLis. (Red-necked Egret.) 



Ardea tricolor ruficollis Cory, Auk, iii. p. 502 (1886 : 



Grand Cayman, Little Cayman). 



Hydranassa ruficoUis Sharpe, Hand-1. B. i. p. 197 (1899). 

 Hab. Temperate E N. America to C. America, West 



Indies. Whether this bird breeds in the Cayman Islands I 



am unable to say, but it does so in Cuba and Jamaica. 



16. Nyctanassa vioLACEA. (Ycllow-crowncd Night- 

 Heron.) 



Nycticorax violaceus (Linn.) ; Cory, Auk, iii. p. 502. 



Nyctanassa violacea (Linn.) ; Sharpe, Hand-1. B. i. p. 197 

 (1899). 



I have a specimen in my collection which I took in 

 Cayman Brae. 



Hab. Central and South America : fairly common in the 

 Caymans, resident. 



