Birds of the Cayman Islands. 
143 
Species and Subspecies. 
Grand 
Cayman. 
Little 
Cayman. 
Cayman 
Brae. 
Zenaida spadicea. 
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Leptoptila collaris . 
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Amazona caymanensis . 
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Colaptes gundlachi. 
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Melanerpes cavmanensis. 
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Elainea martinica caymanensis. 
Elainea martinica complexa. 
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Tolmarcbus caudifasciatus caymanensis. 
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Mimocichla ravida. 
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Mimocichla rubripes coryi. 
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Vireosylva caymanensis. 
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Yireo crassirostris alien!. 
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Dendroeca petechia auricapilla. 
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Dendrceca crawfordi . 
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Melopyrrha taylori.. 
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Euethia olivacea coryi . 
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Spindalis salvini. 
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Coereba sharpii . 
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Icterus bairdi . 
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Holoquiscalus caymanensis . 
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Note. —Mr. Cory has considered the Myiarchus found on Grand Cayman 
to be worthy of specific rank, and has given it the name of deni - 
gratus. I think that there can be no question that the bird is 
identical with M. sagrce of Cuba. Mr. Ridgway considers the 
Ground Dove to be peculiar to the island so far as subspecific rank is 
concerned. He calls it insulctris. 
From this list it will be noticed that there are no genera 
peculiar to the islands. The genus Melopyrrha is, however, 
met with in no other locality except Cuba. 
Mr. Ridgway (Birds North & Middle Amer. pt. i. p. 562) 
says : “ This genus is an exaggeration of Sporophila , but 
between the most similar species of the latter and the type 
of Melopyrrha there is a considerable gap.” 
Spindalis is a well-marked genus which, with the excep¬ 
tion of Cozumel Island off Yucatan (S. henedicti), is restricted 
elsewhere to the Bahamas and the Greater Antillean Islands 
(Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Porto Rico). The species 
peculiar to Grand Cayman is very distinct. 
Mimocichla is another interesting genus restricted else¬ 
where to the Bahamas, Cuba, Hispaniola, Porto Rico, and 
