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was to start the young birds on short flights. So we gave up the attempt, 

 pretty well contented with a half ilozen negatives of the trio at iiome. 



To these records I may add a third, — that of a nest observed by Mr. 

 Ikrtseh at Falls Church, Va., on June 5th, I'JOl. This was situated twenty 

 feet from the ground in a maple, eight feet from the trunk. The nest and 

 young were photographed. 



THE BIRDS OF THE MARIANNE ISLANDS AND THEIR 

 VERNACULAR NAMES.- I. 



By W. E. Safford. 



The Marianne Islands, also kni)wn as the Ladrones, compose an archi- 

 pelago of small volcanic islands forming a chain from north to south about 

 four hundred miles long between the latitudes 13° 1-t' and 20° 30' North and the 

 meridians 142° 31' and 143° 46' East longitude. 



Guam, or Guahan, the most important member of the group, is the only 

 island belonging to the United States, the rest having been sold by Spain to 

 Germany. The islands may be separated into three groups. The southernmost, 

 consisting of Guam, Rota, Aguigan, Tinian and Saipan, is probably the oldest 

 geological formation and contains no active volcanoes. Next come the Faral- 

 lon de Medinilla, Anatahan, Sariijan, Guguan, Alaman;an, Paofan and Aeriean, 

 all of them rocky and precipitous and several of them having active volcanoes. 

 Finally come three volcanoes rising from the sea: Asongson, Urracas and 

 Pajaros, the last of which is in full activity. 



The group was discovered by Magellan, March 6, 1521, but no settle- 

 ment was made upon it for nearly one hundred and fifty years, when, on June 

 16, 1668, Padre Diego Luis de Sanvitores arrived at AgaSa, on the Island of 

 Guam, sent thither at his own request to establish a mission for the purpose 

 of converting the natives to the Christian religion. He and his companions 

 were received with great kindness by the natives who erected for them a 

 church at Agafia. But misunderstanding arose. The Spaniards incurred the 

 ill will of the natives, and after having zealously worked for nearly four years 

 among them Padre Sanvitores was killed by a chief named Matapang for 

 baptising a child against his will. A war of "reduction" now began, but the 

 natives were not subdued until after twenty-three years of bloodshed, the 

 final "victory-' over them being won on the island of Aguigan, in July, 1695, 

 by "the valliant Don Jose Quiroga". 



The Jesuits remained on the Mariannes one hundred years, during which 

 time the group was visited by the English Pirates Eaton and Cowley; by 

 Dampier, who accompanied Captain Swan; by Woods Rogers, who had with 



