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Show 1871.] MR. R. SWINHOE ON A NEW CHINESE GULL. 273 21. CROTOPHAGA ANI (Linn.). "Merle Corbeau," indig. 22. COCCYZUS MINOR (Gm.); Sclater, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 166. ** Coucou manioc," indig. Iris " dark brown." Mr. Semper's specimen agrees with the skin already in my collection from Santa Lucia. 23. TINNUNCULUS SPARVERIUS (Linn.). The skins of this Kestrel from Santa Lucia have very dark bands on the back and tail, and no chestnut spot on the head of the male, as in specimens from St. Croix. Mr. Semper gives the vernacular name of this bird as "Gre-grec Falaise" and describes the iris as "pale reddish brown." 24. BUTORIDES VIRESCENS (Linn.). "Cayalic," indig. This Little Bittern occurs in St. Croix (Newton, Ibis, 1859, p. 261) and most of the other Antilles, except Trinidad, where B. cyanurus (sive scapularis) comes up to meet it (see Finsch, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 589). 25. NYCTICORAX VIOLACEUS (Linn.). A single skin of a young bird of this rather widely spread species, which likewise occurs in St. Croix (Newton, /. c. p 262). As I am expecting to receive further collections of the birds Santa Lucia, I will defer remarks on the general character of the ornithology of the island to a future occasion. It may, however, be pointed out that it is quite evident, even from the present small series, that the general facies of the Santa Lucian avifauna closely resembles that of the neighbouring islands Dominica and Martinique. Although we are still very imperfectly acquainted with the birds of these two islands, eleven out of the present list have been recorded as occurring in Martinique, and ten in Dominica. The species peculiar to Santa Lucia (so far as we know at present) are three in number-namely, Cinclocerthia macrorhyncha, Icterus laudabilis, and Myiobius latirostris. 2. ON a New Chinese Gull. By ROBERT SWINHOE, F.Z.S. [Eeceived March 15, 1871.] (Plate XXII.) CHROICOCEPHALUS SAUNDERSI, n. sp. (Plate XXII.) Gavia kittlitzii, Swinhoe, Ibis, 1860, p. 68, 1861, p. 345. Chroicocephalus kittlitzii, Swinhoe, Ibis, 1863, p. 428; P. Z. S. 1863, p. 328. Larus schimperi, Schlegel (nee Bonaparte), Mus. des Pays-Bas, Lari, p. 40. PROC. ZOOL. Soc.-1871, No. XVIII. |