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Thus the upper parts of C. neidoni more closely resemble 

 birds from St. Thomas and the Virgin Islands than examples 

 of C, flaveola, with which this species is compared by 

 Eido-wav {Joe. cit.). It is to be noted that birds from 

 Puerto Rico do not present the pale edgings to the remiges 

 seen in C. newtoni and in birds from St. Thomas and the 

 Virgins. 



As regards the breeding-habits of this bird, Newton 

 ('Ibis/ 1859, p. Q7) states that ''it appears to breed from 

 March to August." He then gives a description of the 

 nest. 



CCEREBA BAHAMEXSIS. 



Certldola bahamensis lleichenbach, Handb. i. 1853, p. 253 

 (based on Certlda baliamensis Catesby, Xat. Hist. Carolina, 

 i. pi. 59). 



Ccereba bahamensis Ridgw. Birds N. & M. Amer. pt, ii. 

 1902, p. 401. 



Hab. Bahama Islands. 



32 c? c? & ? ? • Coll. Brit. Mus. 



6 ditto. Coll. Rothschild. 



2c?f?. Coll. P. R. L. 



The wings of Bahaman birds average larger (66-63 mm.) 

 than in any other species of the genus except C. tricolor, and 

 the colour of the throat-patch is paler, being of the palest 

 ashy white. The arrangement of the yellow coloration of the 

 under parts also enables this species to be easily identified at 

 a glance from all other species. It commences further down 

 over the thoracic region (not at junction of throat and 

 thorax), and ends sooner and more abruptly over the 

 abdomen. It is therefore much more restricted, and the 

 effect produced is that of a centrally disposed band of yellow 

 with well-defined upper and lower borders. 



The lower abdomen, crissum, and under tail-coverts are 

 also, in marked contrast with all other species of the genus, 

 ashy white ; so that there seems as much of this colour 

 behind the yellow band as in front of it, an arrangement 

 which distinguishes C. bahamensis at a srlance. 



