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Show 1870.] DR. O. FINSCH ON THE BIRDS OF TRINIDAD. 553 some interest, as I have compared the specimens received from Trinidad with others from different parts of America, especially of the neighbouring mainland of Venezuela and Guiana. The total number of species recognized as found in Trinidad by Dr. Leotaud is 297-a number evidently too low, because Dr. Le'otaud apparently enumerates only those species met with by himself. If he had had an opportunity of consulting other reliable works on South-xlmerican ornithology besides the few cited by him, he would have found a considerable number of species to add to his list. The valuable Catalogue of American Birds in the collection of Dr. Sclater^ (1862) contains thirty species from Trinidad not included in Dr. Le'otaud's work. Mr. Taylor notices thirteen species more, and I myself am able to add ten additional species; so that the total number of species now amounts to about 350. Further investigations will most probably increase this number; for Trinidad, situated close to the mainland, and being " nothing more or less than a bit of Venezuela," as Dr. Sclater very aptly remarks, undoubtedly becomes visited accidentally by many birds proper to the continent, besides a portion of stragglers from the northern parts during the winter season. The only species peculiar to the avifauna of Trinidad seems to be Psittacula cingulata. The collection received by Mr. Kohlmann contains 115 species, of which the following are new to Trinidad -.-Heleodytes minor, Myiozetetes inornatus, Sturnella hippocrepis, Pseudoleistes mela-nicterus, Icterus vulgaris, Cardinalis phceniceus, Sycalis brasiliensis, Bamphastos erythrorhynchus, Pteroglossus aracari, and Brotogerys tuipara. The Catalogue of Dr. Sclater contains the following species marked with Trinidad : - Sclater, Cat. page Mimus melanopterus, Lawr 9 Heleodytes griseus (Sw.) 16 Thryothorus ruf albus, Lafr 20 Anthus breviunguis, Spix 24 Euphonaflavifrons (Lath.) 56 Calliste cayana (L.) 66 ITanagra glaucocolpa, Cab 75 Arremon silens, Bp 93 Orchesticus ater (Gml.) 98 Emberizoicles macrourus (Gml.) 118 Chrysomitris cucullata (Sw.) . . 123 Sycalis columbiana, Cab 126 Icterus auricapillus, Cass 132 Sturnella meridionalis, Scl 139 Synallaxis albescens, T e m m 150 Phacellodomus frontalis (Licht.) 154 Picolaptes squamatus (Licht.) 166 Pyriglena maculicaudis, Scl 185 Pitangus rufipennis, Lafr 222 Pyrocephalus rubineus (Bodd.) 227 |