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Baird’s Oriole has always been extremely rare in collections, in fact 
besides our series there exist only Cory’s original specimens and two 
in the Tring Museum that were collected by Taylor when he visited 
the island in 1896 for the Hon. Walter Rothschild. 
The species seems to be on the verge of extinction. Why this is 
I can offer no suggestion. Certainly I. leucopteryx is common enough 
in Jamaica and adapts itself to all the changes man makes there. 
Brown found this Oriole scattered here and there at wide intervals 
in the island and told me he thought it was one of the rarest birds he 
had ever hunted for. 
TANAGRIDAE. 
* SPINDALIS SALVINI Cory. 
Fifty-five specimens, both sexes (only five females) all adult, Grand 
Cayman, April and May. 
This is a fine, large species peculiar to Grand Cayman. Its nearest 
relative is clearly S. pretret (Lesson) of Cuba. Its bill though of course 
larger than in the Cuban species, the bird itself being much larger, is 
very like it, and quite different from the heavy coarse bill of S. bene- 
dicti Ridg. of Cozumel Island. 
The female, I believe, was previously unknown; in color it is some- 
what like the female of S. pretret, (it is of course much larger), the upper 
parts are, however, paler and more grayish olive, the under parts are 
more uniform, the belly and under tail coverts not whitish but dull, 
pale yellowish olive, and the chest is slightly paler olive. 
This is another of the Cayman birds that has been very rare in col- 
lections; Brown, however, tells me that it is really not uncommon 
in Grand Cayman, but that it keeps itself hidden away in the dense 
scrubby woods where it is difficult to shoot, females being especially 
hard to find. 
FRINGILLIDAE. 
* TIARIS OLIVACEA OLIVACEA (Linné). 
Euetheia coryi Ridg., Auk, Oct. 1898, 15, p. 322, Cayman Brac. 
Nineteen specimens, both sexes, all adult, Grand Cayman and Cay- 
man Brac, April, May, and July. 
The species has been recorded from Little Cayman, but Brown 
during his short stay in that island did not find it. 
