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to pick up bits of meat thrown overboard 
for them. ‘These thev easily secured with- 
out touching their wings to the water, but 
often dipped their feet into it. 
Grassy Creek, May 6, 1884. <A few here 
were about to breed. ; 
Mathewstown, Inagua, Feb. 5. 1888. Mr. 
Sargent, U. 8, Vice Consul, has two which 
he has tamed. They fly all about his place 
and do not attempt to migrate. ‘There are 
no wild birds of this species in the Bahamas 
in winter. 2 
Current, Eleuthera, April 20; 1897. Saw 
one a few days ago, and today there are 
more; migration has begun. 
Current Island. April 24, 1897. Saw four 
feeding on the berries of the gumbo limbo 
tree by alighting on the branches, usually 
balancing themselves with their wings. We. 
passed within twenty yards of two which 
were sitting on the island shore of the Cur- 
rent [a very narrow and dangerously rapid 
tide-way between Hleuthera and Current Is- 
