Description of Five New Species of Birds 
5 - from the Bahjimas.^^^ 
I wish to describe the following species of 
Birds from the Bahamas, provisionally, in ad- 
| vance of my work on illustrations and notes of 
Birds of the Bahamas. 
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BAHAMA FISH HAWK. 
Pandion Ridgweir .— Head and neck all round 
entire lower parts white, excepting a narrow 
line of dusky back of eye, and a slight streaking 
of brownish on top of head, between eyes. 
Above rather pale brown, each feather mar¬ 
gined with lighter. Bill and cere dark bluish, 
iris yellow, feet pale blue : dimensions, wings, 17, 
bill, 135, tarcis, 235. Single specimen obtained 
at Andros, but I saw others similar. 
BAHAMA RAIL. 
Rallus Corrius .— Above, pale yellowish brown 
streaked with pale ashy ; wings, light reddish, 
coming paler on outer edges, beneath pale 
ashy, tinged with reddish across breast, becom¬ 
ing white on throat and abdomen, banded faintly 
on sides and flanks with white and pale ashy: 
dimensions, wings, 540; bill, 225; tarcis, 175. 
I shot only a single specimen of this peculiarly 
pallie rail, on an Island off the south shore 
of Andros. 
I have named it for Mr. C. B. Cory who has 
done more to increase our knowledge of West 
Indian birds than any other living ornithologist. 
BAHAMA GROUND DOVE. 
Chamaepelia Bahamensis. — Similar to the 
common ground dove, but with a bill constantly 
wholly black, and much smaller and paler; occurs 
throughout the Bahamas. ’Tis only after con¬ 
siderable hesitation that I name these species 
even provisionally; ’tis also possible that Lim- 
naeus of Columba passerina, was based on spec¬ 
imens of this species, and not on birds of the 
continent of North America. 
In event of this proving the case, I propose 
the name of Chamaepelia purpurea for the larger 
continental dove. 
SOUTHERN YELLOW-WINGED SPARROW. 
Ammo Drornus Australis. — Similar to the 
Nothern yellow-wing; but smaller, darker, and 
in all stages of plumage streaked across the 
breast. Rare on the Bahamas, but constantly in 
Florida. 
LITTLE BAHAMA YELLOW THROAT. 
Geothlypis Restrieta .— Above, dark olive green 
with space next to black neck, abruptly ashy, 
mask restricted on the cheeks to about the 
same width as on the forehead, beneath, light 
yellow becoming lighter on abdomen and brown¬ 
ish on sides; wings shorter and rougher than in 
the common trechas : dimensions, wing, 2.40; 
bill, 23; tracus, 25. Occurs on Bahamas. 
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