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BIRDS OF THE BAHAMA ISLANDS. 
probability it would be the bird. From some reason, perhaps 
because the bird was not bloodthirsty that night, he did not appear, 
and so I was unable to determine its species. From the descriptions 
of the bird that were given me, I believed it to be the present 
species, and my belief was strengthened by the fact that the inhabit- 
ants of Andros Island seemed to know it by that name ; but the 
natives of Inagua say that it perches itself on a tree soon after dark, 
and repeatedly utters a cry commencing loudly, then softly to itself 
before again uttering its loud note, thus: Coo-cu-cu-cu-cu-cu- 
Coo. This note does not at all resemble the cry of A. Carolinensis, 
while it does resemble very much that of the Nyctibius jamaicensis , 
as described by Gosse ; and it is possible that the Inagua bird 
may be that species. 
CHORDEILES MINOR. Cab. 
Little Nighthawk. 
Local Name. — Pira-mi-dink. 
Adult Male. — Above, dark brown, variegated with white and 
tawny; under parts, tawny, banded with brown; throat, tawny, 
becoming whitish on the breast; a white line from sides of the 
throat to chin ; first two primaries with a spot on the inner web, 
and the second and third with a band of white; edge of corpus 
white. 
Length 7, wing 6.40, tail 3.70, bill .28, tarsus .44. 
