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to Lowe’s list. A few of these are merely migrants. Four others 
I had already included in the following account of Brown’s collection, 
and I let my words stand as first written. 
It would be of interest to know the bird that Mr. English found 
breeding in Grand Cayman and called Chordeiles virginianus, distin- 
guishing it from Chordeiles minor by its larger size. On geographic 
grounds it certainly could not have been Chordeiles virginianus vir- 
ginianus (Gmelin). 
ARDEIDAE. 
* BUTORIDES VIRESCENS BRUNESCENS (Lemb.). 
Two specimens, an adult co’ and an immature 9, Grand Cayman, 
May. 
These are similar to specimens from Jamaica and Cuba. I have 
already (Auk, Oct. 1915, 32, p. 481-484) given my reasons for using 
the name brunescens for the Green Heron of the Greater Antilles. 
Whether or not that form can be maintained as distinct from B. v. 
maculatus (Bodd.) of Martinique remains, I think, to be proved. 
Oberholser has probably subdivided the Green Heron too much, and 
he had but three specimens from Martinique when he wrote his 
Revision of the subspecies of the Green Heron (Proc. U. S. N. M., 
1912, 42, p. 529-577). 
RALLIDAE. 
* GALLINULA CHLOROPUS CACHINNANS Bangs. 
Brown found the Gallinule breeding in abundance in the many 
marshy ponds in Grand Cayman in April and May, and took several 
sets of eggs, but made up no skins. 
LARIDAE. 
{| STERNA ANTILLARUM (Lesson). 
One adult o, Little Cayman, July 26. Brown found the Least 
Tern breeding in abundance. 
