S. F. Baird on North American Birds. 81 
Hayti. Where the species belong to continental genera not 
represented in North America, they are more generally of Mexi- 
can and Central American forms and rarely of strictly South 
American. 
The following table of resident land birds of Cuba and Ja- 
maica, exclusive of diurnal Raptores and Columbide, although 
approximately complete only, may serve to illustrate more fully 
the preceding remarks, 
Cuba. Jamaica. 
South American genera, - . . - rie: 1 
Central American and Mexican, - - - “ i 
South and Central American, - — - . mee 3 
North and Central American, - - - 5 2 
North, Central and South American, - Pegs he 10 
est Indian, - . ‘i : < . 8 6 
Peculiar to the Island, —- - - : as 6 
Total, 34 29 
The species of truly West Indian birds are remarkable for 
their local distribution, comparatively few being found on more 
than one of the larger islands, and, what is still more remarkable 
World—and very successful considering the insufficient data ac- 
cessible at the one. In 1859° Dr. Leconte sketched out their 
_ * Nyctibius, 6 Phonipara. st ee ae 
yo}, coleoPtera of Kansas and New Mexico, Dec. 1859, Smithsonian Contributions, 
XL 
I also refer to incidental mention of the same law in a paper b 1 self on oo 
Tada GF Cape ie Foe he ornate ae the Tad. Aoadeny Be ov, 8th, eg 
Am, Jour. Scl.—SEconp SERIES, You. XLI, No. 121.—Jan., 1866. 
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