The Oologist. 



Vol. XXVIII. No. 1. Albion, N. Y. Jan. 15, 1911. Whole No. 282 



Published Monthly, by R. M. Barnes, Albion, N. Y., and Lacon, Illinois. 



The Isle of Pines 



This little speck in the Carribean 

 Sea lying just South of the Westerly 

 third of Cuba, and almost due East of 

 the Northern border of Yucatan, fell 

 into the hands of the United States 

 as the result of the Spanish War. It 

 is regarded as one of the most beau- 

 tiful of the small islands in the world. 

 The climate, being juet South of the 

 tropic, protected on the North by the 

 mountains of Cuba, and facing the 

 wide expanse of the Carribean Sea on 

 the South, is said to be almost un- 

 surpassed. With an irregular coast 

 outline, the interior is much diversi- 

 fied being swampy, mountainous, flat, 

 and dry in different places. Many 

 streams reach seaward from near the 

 center of this island. 



Arthur C. Read, formerly Secretary 

 of the Toledo, Ohio Bird Club has re- 

 sided in the Isle of Pines for the last 

 two or three years, and was careful 



not to leave at home in Toledo, his 

 love of the birds. To his investiga- 

 tions and published articles, the orni- 

 thologist owes much; for little indeed 

 of a scientific nature has been pub- 

 lished regarding the birds of the Isle 

 of Pines prior to Mr. Read's going 

 there, and his contributions to the col- 

 umns of THE OOLOGIST are indeed 

 a welcome addition throughout the 

 scientific world to the knowledge re- 

 lation to the birds of that far away 

 isle. Ourselves, as well as our readers, 

 are under much obligation to Mr. Read 

 for the time and effort expended by 

 him in accumulating and recording 

 the large amount of information on 

 this subject, which we have from time 

 to time published in THE OOLOGIST, 

 We have devoted this issue of THE 

 OOLOGIST almost exclusively to the 

 birds of this island, for the purpose of 

 grouping as much as possible, the in- 

 formation at hand on this subject. 



