BAHAMAN BIRDS 



By John I. Northrop 



(Abstract of address before the N. Y. Academy of Science) 



After a few preliminary remarks upon the situation and size of the 

 Bahamas, the speaker stated that a paper giving the details of the 

 collection of birds would appear in the Auk for January. He stated 

 that all the species, seventy-four in number, were represented by the 

 specimens on the table, but that he would only call attention to the- 

 most interesting. 



The following birds were then exhibited and remarked upon: 

 Mimocichla plumbea, Mimus polyglottos, Mimus Gundlachi, Poliop- 

 tila ccEYulea ccBsiogaster, Seiurus aurocapillus, Geothlypis rostrata (a 

 local form, slightly differing from the typical species found on New 

 Providence), Callichelidon cyaneoviridis, Doricha evelynce, Sporadinus 

 ricordi, Chordeiles minor, Icturus northropi (a new species of a genus 

 not before reported from the Bahamas, and which has been described 

 and named by Dr. J. A. Allen), Coccyzus minor Maynardi, Saurothera 

 bahamensis, Phcenico pterus ruber (the habits and mode of capture 

 being described), Nycticorax nycticorax ncpmus (new to the Baha- 

 mas), Rallus coryi, Ardea bahamensis, and several other water birds. 



The speaker also mentioned finding in the stomach of Antra stomus 

 carolinensis an entire humming-bird sufficiently undigested to identify 

 as Sporadinus ricordi. 



He stated that the only mammals on Andros were bats, rats, and 

 mice. The bat was Macrotus waterhousei, and the rat Mus rattus. 

 The skin of the iguana, Cychera bceolopha, was exhibited, and the 

 method of capture described. A few lizards were also shown, eight or 

 nine species having been collected. The speaker had collected a 

 number of species of snakes, the largest of which, a species of boa- 

 constrictor, was exhibited. 



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