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during a Cruise in the Caribbean Sea. 
hunting-ground for new subspecies which lies between the 
islands of Anguilla and Montserrat, I have no personal 
field acquaintance; but after cruising among these islands 
and observing how very close to one another and how 
small they are, and after studying charts of the surrounding 
submarine banks, I can only wonder if the creation of 
numberless subspecies is not a scientific mistake. 
Tolmarchus caudifasciatus caymanensis. 
Pitangus caudifasciatus Cory, Auk, iii. p. 502 (1886). 
Pitangus caymanensis Nicoll, Ibis, 1904, p. 582. 
Tolmarchus caymanensis Ridgw. Birds .North & Middle 
Amer. part iv. p. 681. 
I possess only one specimen of this species from the 
Grand Cayman. It agrees with Mr. Nicoll’s description 
of this insular form. 
Myiarchus sagr./E Gundlach. 
Myiarchus denigratus Cory, Auk, iii. pp. 500, 502 
(1886). 
Mr. Cory says: u This is a very dark species, easily dis¬ 
tinguished from any other West Indian form.” 
I have compared my specimens, which I shot on the 
Grand Cayman, with six examples of M. sagrce which I 
obtained in Cuba, and I am in entire agreement with 
Mr. Ridgw r ay in not being able to distinguish the slightest 
difference between the two forms. My series from both 
islands were in very good plumage. 
MlMUS POLYGLOTTOS ORPHEUS. 
[ Turdus\ orpheus Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. x. i. 1758, 169. 
Two males which I shot are referable to this subspecies. 
I notice that Mr. Ridgway (‘ Birds of North and Middle 
America,’ part. iv. p. 232) does not admit the subspecific 
rank of Mimus p. portoricensis Bryant, from Porto Rico, 
but two birds in my collection from that island would 
seem to justify it. I found some low bush country near 
Guauica, in Porto Rico, simply swarming with this species, 
but unfortunately only shot two examples. 
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