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Show 1871.] MR. P. L. SCLATER ON T H E BIRDS OF SANTA LUCIA. 267 Lieut. Tyler's name. Supposed scientific name. Page 12. Rossignol Thryothorus martinicensis* 5 13. Grosbeak Saltator martinicensis 6 14. Grivotte Margarops montanus 6 15. Carouge (femelle) Icterus bonana 6 16. Trembler Cinclocerthia macrorhyncha 6 17. Pere noir Loxigilla noctis 7 18. Sucrier Certhiola martinicana 7 19. Perdrix croissant Geotrygon mystacea 8 12. St. Vincent.-St. Vincent was formerly the residence of an energetic and most observant naturalist, the Rev. Lansdown Guilding, F.L.S., well-known to the first founders of this Society, who, however, unfortunately died at an early age in this island without having carried out his plans for a fauna of the West Indiesf. Mr. Guilding paid most attention to the invertebrate animals ; but his collections contained a certain number of birds, amongst which was a new Parrot, described after his decease by Mr. Vigors as Psittacus guildingii, and probably a native of St. Vincent. 13. Grenada and the Grenadines.-Of the special ornithology of this group nothing is known. 14. Barbados.-The sole authority upon the birds of Barbados is Sir R. Schomburgk's well-known work on that island "j;. This contains (p. 681) a list of the birds met with, accompanied by some few remarks. It does not, however, appear that birds attracted much of the author's attention ; and more copious notes would be highly desirable. Although Tobago and Trinidad are geographically reckoned in the windward division of the Lesser Antilles, they have zoologically, I believe, nothing whatever to do with them. Both have been peopled with life from the adjacent mainland; or if in the case of Tobago this was not originally the case, it has been overrun with continental species, and, as well as Trinidad, now presents few, if any, traces of Antillean forms. Of the ornithology of both of these islands we have excellent accounts-of that of Tobago by Sir William Jardine §, from the collections of Mr. Kirk, and of that of Trinidad more recently from the pens of Dr. Leotaud || aud Dr. Finsch *^[. Having thus summed up how much, or rather how little we yet know of the ornithology of the Lesser Antilles individually, I proceed to give an account of the collection of birds of Santa Lucia, for which, as above mentioned, I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. Des Vceux. This collection contains examples of the following twenty-five species, amongst which is one that appears to have been hitherto undescribed. * Sclater, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 320. t See his sketch of his plans, Zool. Journ. ii. p. 437. He died in 1832. % History of Barbados : London, 1847. § Annals of Nat, Hist. vols, xviii., xix., xx. (1846-47). || Oiseaux de file de la Trinidad: Port of Spain, 1866. 4 See Proc. Zool. Soc. 1870, p. 552. |