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History of Carolina and the Bahamas, states in 1743, that Iguanas or 
Guanas were abundant upon many islands throughout the Bahamas, 
so common in fact that schooners were cargoed with them and that 
they were carried to Carolina for food. 'The name Guana is even now 
used among the “Conchs”’ of the Bahamas, who still speak a peculiar 
archaic English. A vague idea of how wide-spread these great lizards 
were in early colonial times may be gained from the Bahaman place- 
names. Thus, there is a Great Guana Cay, off the Abaco coast not 
far from Green Turtle Cay, a settlement which once had some impor- 
tance. This islet was visited by the senior author in 1904 but no 
Guanas were found, and none had persisted to within the memory of 
the elder folk living in the tiny hamlet. There is also a Guana Cay 
near Little Harbor about half way up the chain of the Berry Islands, 
and not far from one of the Bahaman Whale Cays, for this also is a 
common place-name. Then we find another Great Guana Cay in the 
Exuma chain of Cays. In all of these islands Guanas are now un- 
known. On Bitter Guana Cay, however, but a few hundred yards 
from the Great Guana Cay in Exuma, Mr. C. J. Maynard tells us 
that up to 1915 a few Cycluras were still to be found. He believes 
that these represent an undescribed race. As to the status of the other 
Bahaman species :— baeolopha is still not uncommon, since its habitat, 
Andros Island, is very large and contains much unsettled and indeed 
even unexplored territory. Of nuchalis from Fortune Island we know 
nothing. Stejneger’s species, rileyi, is confined to two tiny islets in 
the saline lagoon of Watling’s Island; here Riley obtained the types 
in 1903 and W. W. Worthington procured a few specimens in March, 
1909. Our new species, inornata, is, or was, found upon a little island 
called U Cay, in Allen’s Harbor, north of Highborn Cay and situated 
in the Archipelago between Exuma and New Providence. Here in 
1892 Maynard found the Iguanas not uncommon. He revisited the 
islet in 1915, was storm bound there and hence had ample opportun- 
ity to cover it very completely. He found but two Iguanas still 
living upon U Cay. Both of these he shot; one, our type, he secured, 
the other escaped, wounded. Thus the species inornata, which 
‘once doubtless existed on several islands about Allen’s Harbor, is now 
beyond doubt extinct. Since these creatures are excellent for food, 
they are constantly hunted by the native negroes, often with dogs 
trained for the purpose. These negroes during the course of their 
sponging and turtling voyages cover the entire Bahaman Archipelago, 
visiting even the most remote, inaccessible, and infertile cays. There 
is a constant search for animal food, which unfortunately is by no 
