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THE BIRDS 
OF THE 
BAHAMA ISLANDS 
CONTAINING 
Many birds new to the Islands, and a number of undescribed 
winter plumages of North American birds. 
By CHARLES B. CORY,^ 
Curator of Birds in the Boston Society of Natural History, Fellow of the Linnlean and 
Zoological Societies of London, Member of the American Ornithologists’ Union, of 
the British Ornithologists’ Union, of the Soci£t£ Zoologique de France, etc. 
Honorary Member, of the California Academy of Sciences, Corre- 
sponding Member of the New York Academy of Sciences, of 
the Chicago Academy of Sciences, etc., etc. 
AUTHOR OF 
The Beautiful and Curious Birds of the World, The Birds of ihe Bahama 
Islands, The Birds of Haiti and San Domingo, A Naturalist in the 
Magdalen Islands, A List of the Birds of the West Indies, 
The Birds of the West Indies, etc., etc., etc. 
REVISED EDITION. 
ESTES & LAURIAT, 
BOSTON, U. S. A. 
1890. 
