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Show 1871.] MR. P. L. SCLATER ON THE BIRDS OF SANTA LUCIA. 271 the latter, having the lower back, belly, and crissum yellow, but of an orange (not sulphur) yellow. This yellow colour is also much wider both above and below, and embraces the upper tail-coverts, which in I. portoricensis are black. Lieut. Tyler appears to have figured this bird in his drawings (fig. 6) as the " Carouge, male;" whilst his " Carouge, female" (fig. 15) is much more like Icterus bonana of Martinique, which may probably also occur in Santa Lucia. 13. QUISCALUS LUGUBRIS, Sw.; Scl. C. A. B. p. 141. "Merle," indig. Quiscalus barita, Taylor, Ibis, 1864, p. 168. Apparently undistinguishable from skins in m y collection from Trinidad, Cayenne, and Guiana. The bill is slightly more curved on tbe culmen, but not long enough for Q. infiexirostris, Sw. (An. in Men. p. 300). I have exactly similar skins from Martinique, the male being one of Mr. Taylor's specimens, determined by him as Q. barita. But Mr. Cassin has recently shown* that the Gracula barita oi Linnaeus must be referred to the Jamaican species usually called Q. crassirostris, Sw. 14. ELAINEA MARTINICA (Linn.). Tyrannula martinica, Cassin, Pr. Ac. Sc. Phil. 1860, p. 375. Elainea martinica, Taylor, Ibis, 1864, p. 169. Two skins of an Elainea sent by Mr. Semper are, no doubt, of this species, as identified by Mr. Cassin, I. s. c. As far as I can tell from the present specimens, they are likewise undistinguishable from my E. riisii of St. Thomas (Cat. A. B. p. 217). A further question arises, as I have already pointed out (P. Z. S. 1870, p. 834), whether this Antillean species is really separable from E. pagana of the continent. This I am not able at present to determine satisfactorily. 15. MYIOBIUS LATIROSTRIS, Verreaux, Nouv. Arch. d. Mus. ii. Bull. p. 22, t. 3. f. 2 (1866). Two skins of this little Tyrant-bird, which M. Jules Verreaux has recently described from specimens transmitted to the Museum of Paris by Bonnecourt. Its nearest ally is Myiobius phceocercus (Mitrephorus pheeocercus of my Cat. A. B. p. 228), which it greatly resembles in general colour. But it has a much broader bill, and no bars on the wings. In Santa Lucia this bird is called the Gobemouche Solitaire. The iris is marked " brown;" and the legs in the living bird dark green. 16. MYIARCHUS ERYTHROCERCUS, Sclat. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 631. I have long had a skin of this bird from Dominica, collected by * Pr. Acad. Phil. 1866, p. 405. |