one of the Caribbean islands, 451 miles south of Porto Rico, with a good harbour for careening of ships. It is so called from the great number of birds that frequent it. There is another of the same name lying to the northward of this, in N. Lat. 15°; and a third near the eastern coast of Newfoundland, in N. Lat. 50°.

Aves, Birds, the name of Linnaeus's second class of animals See Zoology, no. 8. and Ornithology.