The Birds of Culebra Island, Porto Rico
1917; Oxford University Press; Volume: 34; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/4072538
ISSN1938-4254
Autores Tópico(s)Plant and animal studies
ResumoTuE Island of Culebra, second in size of our possessions in the Virgin group, lies twenty miles east of Cape San Juan on the northeastern point of Porto Rico.Though known with Vieques as one of the Islas de Pasaje, there is little more than passing mention made of Culebra in the accounts of historians or in other literature pertaining to Porto Rico.Culebra must have been discovered at an early date, probably by Columbus in 1493 as in that year he reached St. Croix and then crossed to Porto Rico.In 1530 the historian Inigo Abbad remarks that the few remaining aborigines left Porto Rico and settled on Mona, Vieques and other off-lying islands.Before that time Culebra was supposed to have been visited at times by the Arawakas from the south.As there was no fresh
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