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relative of the Bahama species is Doricha hryanti Lawrence of Costa Eica, 

 which would indicate that their origin in the Bahama Islands is fortuitous. 



17. Riccordia ricordii mneovvridis (Palmer & Eiley). — A closely related 

 form of the Cuban Riccordia ricordii (Gervais) that has only established itself 

 apparently in Great Bahama, Abaco and Andros. 



18. Pitangus idhamensis (Bryant).— Closely related to P. candifasciatus 

 D'Orbigny of Cuba. 



19. Myiarchus lucaysiensis (Bryant). — Closely related to M. sagrce (Gund- 

 lach) of Cuba. 



20. Blacicus idhamensis Bryant. — Blacicus is a genus occurring almost 

 throughout the West Indies, each of the larger islands or group of islands hav- 

 iag a distinct species, and on the mainland from southern Mexico to southern 

 Brazil. The Bahama bird finds its nearest relative possibly in Blacicus cari- 

 hcBus (D'Orbigny) of Cuba. 



21. Mimiis gundlachi Cabanis. 



22. Mimus gundlachi bahamertsis (Bryant) . — Though the type of M. gwnd- 

 lachi Cabanis came from the Cayo Santa Maria, off the Cuban coast, it has not 

 been taken, to my knowledge, on the mainland of Cuba, and if really an inhab- 

 itant of the island is apparently confined to the cays of the northern coast, 

 where the conditions are somewhat similar to the Bahamas. Mimus gundlachi 

 hilli (March) is confined to Jamaica and these three forms find their nearest 

 relative in Mimus saturninus (Lichtenstein) of southeastern Brazil, so their 

 occurrence in Jamaica and the Bahamas must be fortuitous. 



23. Mimodchla plumbea (Linne). — Mimodchla is a genus confined to 

 the Greater Antilles (except Jamaica, St. Croix and the small islands to the 

 eastward of Porto Eico), Swan Island, Dominica and the Bahamas; each 

 island (in the case of the Bahamas, group of islands) on which the genus occurs 

 having a more or less well-marked species or form; Cuba with two. The near- 

 est relative of the Bahama bird is probably Mimodchla rubripes schistacea 

 (Baird) of eastern Cuba. 



24. Polioptila ccerulea ccesiogaster Eidgway. — A well-marked form of P. 

 cwrulea (Linne) of the United States. Also occurs on Cozumel Island, Yu- 

 catan. 



25. Vireo crassirostris (Bryant). 



26. Vireo crassirostris flavescens (Eidgway). — Both belong to a small 

 group of brown-eyed vireos inhabiting Cuba, Porto Eico, Jamaica," Grand Cay- 



'» Vireo modestus Sclater of Jamaica has the irides whitish, I am informed. 

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