448 REPOET — 1888. 



Ridgway, R. Description of three supposed new Honey-creepers 

 from the Lesser Antilles, with a synopsis of the species of the genus 

 Gerthiola. ' P. U. S. Nat. Mus.' viii. (1885), pp. 25-30. 



2 new species fi'om Guadeloupe and Dominica. 



Dall, W. H. Reports on the results of dredging, under the super- 

 vision of Alexander Agassiz in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-78) and in the 

 Caribbean Sea (1879-80) by the U. S. Coast Survey steamer ' Blake.' 

 Report on the Mollusca. Part I., Brachiopoda and Peleci/poda. ' Bull. 

 ' Mus. C. Z.' xii. No. 6 (1886), pp. 171-318. Plates I.-IX. 



Many species from the Lesser Antilles, including Barbados. 



Cory, C. B. Descriptions of new species of birds from the West 

 Indies. 'Auk,' iii. (188G), pp. 381, 382. 



Guadeloupe, St. Lucia, Barbados. 



Cory, C. B. On a collection of birds from several little-known islands 

 of the West Indies. ' Ibis,' 1886, pp. 471-475. 



Lists of species found in Barbados, St. Vincent, Marie- Galante, La 

 Desirade, Grande Terre, St. Lucia. 



Cory, C. B. The Birds of the "West Indies, including the Bahama 

 Islands, the Greater and Lesser Antilles, excepting the islands of Tobago 

 and Trinidad. ' Auk,' iii. (1886), pp. 1-59, 187-245, 337-381, and 454- 

 472; op. cit. iv. (1887), pp. 37-51, 108-120, 223-232, 311-328; op. cit. 

 V. (1888), 48-82 and 155-159. 



A complete list with references, synonymy, brief characters, and 

 woodcuts of heads. 



Jordan, D. S. A Preliminary List of the fishes of the West Indies. 

 ' P. U. S. Nat. Mus.' ix. (1886), pp. 554-608. 



Nearly 900 species. 



Garman, S. On West Indian Reptiles in the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology at Cambridge, Mass. 'P. Am. Phil. Soc.'xxiv. (1887), pp. 278-286. 



Refers to snakes, turtles, and crocodiles, and records several species 

 from the Lesser Antilles. 



Garman, S. On West Indian Reptiles in the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology, Cambridge, Mass. ' Bull. Essex Institute ' xix. (1887), pp. 1-53. 



Several new species from various islands of the Lesser Antilles, as 

 well as the larger islands and Trinidad. 



Agassiz, A. Three cruises of the United States Coast and Geodetic 

 Survey steamer ' Blake ' in the Gulf of Mexico, in the Caribbean Sea, 

 and along the Atlantic coast of the United States from 1877 to 1880. 

 Vols. i. and ii. London, 1888. 



Chap. V. vol. i. ' Relations of the West Indian Fauna and Flora,' and 

 Chap. XIV. vol. ii. ' The West Indian Fauua,' relate to the fauna of the 

 I;esser Antilles and Caribbean Sea. The larger portion of the memoirs 

 on marine zoology recorded in this bibliographical list are the results of 

 these cruises, and it may therefore be well to state that the fauna referred 

 to in them is that extending from the hundred-fathom line to deep water 

 off the lee side of the Caribbean islands. Cf. vol. i. Introduction, p. xii. 



ANEGADA (see VIRGIN ISLANDS). 



ANGUILLA. 



About sixty miles north-west of St. Kitts, in 18° 12' N. lat. The area 

 is thirty-five square miles and the elevation very slight. The adjacent 

 Dog and Sombrero Islands belong to Anguilla politically. 



