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Black & White Warbler. Common 

 winter resident. 

 Mch. 14 — Cuban Nighthawk. Abund- 

 ant summer resident. 

 Cuban Gray Kingbird. Common 

 summer resident. 

 Mch. 17 — Black-whiskered Vireo. Com- 

 mon. 

 Mch. IS — Barn Swallow. Rare migrant. 

 Cuban Cliff Swallow. Abundant 

 summer resident. 

 •^Apr. 30 — Cuban Redwing (Agelaius 

 assimilis). Rare. 

 May 11 — White-crowned Pigeon. Com- 

 mon. 

 V "El Bobo" Pigeon (Columba squa- 

 mosa). Common. 

 West Indian Tree Duck. Not com- 

 mon. 

 K Cuban Green Heron (Butorides 

 brunnescens). Rare. 

 Yellow-crowned Night Heron. 



Rare. 

 Virginia Rail. Rail. 

 July — West Indian Killdeer. Common 

 in summer. 

 Wilson's Snipe. Migrant. 

 Aug. 13 — Ruddy Quail Dove. Rare. 

 Aug. 17 — Florida Gallinule. Rare. 

 i^Cuban Crab Hawk (Urubitenga 

 Gundlachis). Rare. 

 Sept. IS — Golden Plover. Rare mi- 

 grant. 

 Sept. 24- — Least Sandpiper. Common 



migrant. 

 Sept. 27 — Giant Kingbird. Summer 



resident. 

 Oct. 20 — Sycamore Warbler. Migrant. 

 Oct. — Solitary Sandpiper. Migrant. 

 Cuban Pewee. Common. 

 Isle of Pines Tanager. Common. 

 Spotted Sandpiper. Migrant. 

 Brown Pelican. Common on South 



coast. 

 Semipalmated Sandpiper. Migrant. 

 Limpkin. 

 Black-poll. Warbler. 



Birds Observed on the Isle of Pines 

 From Dec. 1908, to Jan. 1912, 

 Which Were Not Seen During 



1912 by A. C. Read. 

 The Dates are First Records. 

 1908 



Dec. 8 — Blackburnian Warbler. 

 Dec. 24 — Prairie Warbler. 

 1909 

 .Ian. 2.5 — Parula Warbler. 



Prothonotary Warbler. 

 Feb. 6 — Bachman's Warbler. 

 Feb. 11 — ^Cerulean Warbler. 

 :\Ich. 13 — Cuban White Heron. 

 Apr. 20 — Indigo Bunting. 

 Apr. 21 — Red-eyed Vireo. 

 Apr. 2S— Quail Dove. 



Yellow-bellied Flycatcher. 

 May S — Yellow-throated Vireo. 

 Aug. 26 — Blue-headed Quail Dove. 

 May 11— Black-billed Cuckoo. 

 .June 28 — American Egret. 

 .July 19 — Cuban Whip-poor-will. 



Palm Swift. 

 Jan. 31 — Swift (Streiilo]n-ocne zonaris ^^ 



l)aldiifrons). 

 Aug. 28— "Toti" Blackbird (Ptiloxena V' 



atroviolacea). 

 Sept. IS — Greater Yellow-legs. 

 Oct. 21— Black-throated Green Warbler. 

 Xov. 4 — Tennessee Warbler. 

 Oct. 26— Myrtle Warbler. 

 Dec. 11 — Grasshopper Sparrow. 

 Dec. 2.5 — Least Grebe. 

 1910 



Jan. 9 — Worm-eating Warbler. 

 .Jan. 22 — Melodius Grassquit. 

 Apr. 29— West Indian Yellow-billed 



Cuckoo. 

 May 9— Bobolink. 

 Apr. 3 — Broad-winged Hawk. 

 .June 24— Swift (Cypsloides niger). t- 

 1911 



.July 12 — Black-crowned Night Heron. 

 Mch. 2.5 — Cape May Warbler. 

 ■ S3 species observed during 1912. 



34 species' observed previously and 

 not during 1912. 



117 Species observed from Decem- 

 ber 190S to October 1912. 



A. C. Read. 



