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and hopes to return to the same field at some future time to obtain 

 materials for an adequate presentation of the subject. 



Thanks are due to the people in Bermuda who assisted the 

 Field Museum representatives in many ways during the progress 

 of the expedition and especially to Archdeacon Tucker, Capt. W. E. 

 Meyer, Mr. F. B. Spurling, Mr. William Allen, Miss Allen, Mr. 

 Richard Darrell, and Mr. F. Goodwin Gosling whose generosity 

 will not be forgotten. Mr. Louis L. Mowbray was attached to the 

 expedition during October and part of November and rendered 

 most excellent service. 



The expedition brought back many articles for other Departments 

 of the Museum, besides numerous invertebrates and reptiles for the 

 Department of Zoology. The method of collecting the lizard, which 

 is so abundant on Castle Island, was suggested by a David's Island 

 native to a member of the crew of our little steam launch and by 

 him very successfully applied. A tall glass jar having a streak 

 of butter on the inside, below the neck, was stood on the ground. 

 Stones were placed so as to give the lizards easy access to the mouth. 

 They came in large numbers, slipped into the jar and could not 

 escape. In about two hours thirty-three fine examples were taken 

 in a single jar by that plan. 



The wood rat, now rather scarce on the islands, was taken in 

 traps set on the trees and baited with bananas of which they are 

 very fond . 



It is understood that all the species with which collector and 

 museum's catalogue numbers are associated were obtained by the 

 expedition of 1905. The whole number of recorded species is 261, 

 of which 166 were taken from August to November, 1905, with the 

 exception of a few that were purchased from Mr. L. Mowbray. In 

 this list the first number under the name of a species is the museum 

 catalogue number, the second is the field number of the collector. 

 The classification followed is that of Jordan & Evermann in Bulletin 

 47. U. S. National Museum. 



