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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo04amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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COLLECTING IN FLORIDA AND THE BAHAMAS rufa and exsecta groups, and the forms in whose nests they estab- lish these colonies belong to the more abundant species of the fnsca and pallide-fiilva groups. Another ant of a very different sub-family, namely AphcBnogaster tennesseense, curiously enough, shows a similar reduction in the size of its queens and it too, as certain cases show, in all probability first establishes its colo- nies in the nests of some one of our numerous varieties of A. fulviun. A full account of the temporar)^ parasitism of F. difficilis and of several other species will shortly be published. William Morton Wheeler.
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A COLLECTING TRIP TO FLORIDA AND THE BAHAMAS. HROUGH the generosity of Mr. Nathan A. Bill of Springfield, Massachusetts, the schooner yacht " Gloria " was placed at the disposal of the Museum in )\Iay and June for a collecting expedition in the Florida Keys and the Bahama Islands. Professor William Morton Wheeler of the Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Mr. Frank )\I. Chapman of the Department of Or- nithology and )\Iammalogy embarked on this vessel at Miami, Florida, May 4, 1904, and on May 31 were joined at Nassau, Bahamas, by Dr. B. E. Dahlgren of the Department of Prepara- tion and Installation. Among birds, material for groups of the Roseate Spoonbill, Snowy Egret, Ani or Black Cuckoo and Flamingo were especially desired. The two former, it was hoped to find in Florida, while the latter were to be looked for in the Bahamas. The attempt to find the nests of the Spoonbill and Egret resulted in failure. The few Spoonbills known to inhabit an isolated rookery near the southwestern border of the Everglades were reported by the game warden employed by the American Ornithologists' Union and the Florida Audubon Society to have bred at an unusually early date, while the Egrets inhabiting the same rookery had been killed by a band of plume-hunters. It is evident therefore that so long as a single aigrette-bearing heron remains in Florida, it is liable to be pursued for its plumes. As 75

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