This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...there is a minor faunal region of the rank of a fauna or district, embracing Watlings Island, Rum Cay, Coneepcion Island, Long Island, and the islands to the southward. This is the region of least rainfall for the group and consequently less heavy vegetation. LIST OF BAHAMA BIRDS. The sequence of families in the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...there is a minor faunal region of the rank of a fauna or district, embracing Watlings Island, Rum Cay, Coneepcion Island, Long Island, and the islands to the southward. This is the region of least rainfall for the group and consequently less heavy vegetation. LIST OF BAHAMA BIRDS. The sequence of families in the following list is mainly that elaborated by Mr. Ridgway for his Birds of North and Middle America. Mr. C. B. Cory, s Catalogue of West Indian Birds has been my chief source of information, and to his list of Bahama birds given therein, I have added such records as have been published since his book was issued or made such changes as the present state of our knowledge of the subject seemed to warrant. N. B.--Birds known to breed are marked thus+; those peculiar to the Islands thus f. Order Colymbiformes (Diving Birds). Colymbus dominicus Linn6 J (West Indian Grebe). Eleuthera. Andros. Rum Cay, Watlings Island. Long Island. Podilymbus podiceps (Linn6) (Pied-billed Grebe). New Providence. Order ProckllariiFormes (Tube-nosed Swimmers). Oceanites oceanicus (Kuhl) (Wilson-s Petrel). New Providence. Pufflnus Iherminieri Lesson J (Antillean Shearwater). Abaco, New Providence, Andros. Green Cay (near New Providence), Washerwomen Cays, Ship Channel Cays. Pufflnus gravis (O-Reilly) (Greater Shearwater). New Providence. Order Ciconiiformes (Stork-like Birds, Herons, etc.). Phacihon americanus GrantJ (American Tropic Bird). Abaco, New Providence, Great Inagua, Cay Lobos, Long Rock (Exuma), Water Cay (Ragged Island), Cay Verde (30 miles east of Great Ragged Island). Sula cyanops Sundevall (Blue-faced Booby). San Domingo Cay. Sula leucogastra BoddaertJ (Booby). Miraporvos, Great Ragged Island, San Domingo Cay, Cay Lobos (?), at Sea. Phalacrocorax dilophus floridanu..
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