Summer Birds in the Bahamas

T•is is the third of a series of short papers on the results of a visit to the northern Baha•nas in luly, x9o4, made by the writer in company with Mr. Thomas Barbour and Mr. Owen Bryant. Notwithstanding that the birds o[ the Bahamas are now fairly well known, the follow, ing account of the species observed during our cruise among the cays and larger islands of the northern part o[ the group is of interest partly because most of the ornithological work in this region has been done in the winter and spring, and partly because these northern islands are apt to be neglected by visitors who pass at once to those of the more southern and eastern groups. Indeed, the summer avifauna of Great Bahama and the northeastern cays is very little known. Mr. F. M. Chapman, so recently as x89•, wrote that of "Great Bahama we know nothing; no ornithologist has ever visited it." • Later in the same year, however, Cory2 published a list of birds obtained by his collector, C. S. Winch, at Great Bahama and Abaco, in March and June. Mr. Robert Ridgway3 listed the specimens obtained in March and April from Abaco and the more southern islands by