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during a Cruise in the Caribbean Sea. 
Crotophaga ani Linn. 
I met with flocks of this Cuckoo in nearly every open 
space on the island. The only specimen I shot, a male, does 
not differ from those obtained elsewhere. In its stomach I 
found four lizards and the remains of several large beetles. 
This bird has probably established itself here recently, for 
it prefers open spaces, and sixty years ago the island must 
have been uniformly and densely wooded. 
jVIimocichla rubripes (Temm.). 
Mimocichla rubripes eremita Ridgw. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 
x. p. 575 (1887). 
This Thrush has been separated from the typical M. rubripes, 
which inhabits the western end of Cuba, by Mr. Ridgway on 
the ground that it 66 averages larger, has shorter toes/'’ and 
that “ the white of the chin and malar region is usually more 
extended.” 
During a stay of nearly three weeks various collecting- 
parties from the yacht hunted high and low and searched 
every corner of the island for this species, but without seeing 
a sign of it. It is strange if it has died out, for the owner 
of the island takes great care to preserve the birds. He tells 
me that occasionally he sees members of this genus in October; 
but that is a month of gales, and no doubt these birds have 
been blown over from Cuba, the Grand Cayman Island, or 
elsewhere. 
The measurements given by Mr. Ridgway ( c Birds North 
and Middle America/ part iv. p. 85) would not, in my 
opinion, justify the creation of a new subspecies; and the 
variation in extent of the white on the chin and malar 
region, which is the only other distinction given, does 
not seem to be constant according to Mr. Ridgway's 
description. 
Galeoscoftes carolinensis (Linn.). 
Several specimens taken. 
This bird was extremely abundant on the island, and I 
