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Show 272 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON THE BIRDS OF SANTA LUCIA. [Mar. 21, Mr. Taylor*, and have given it a MS. name. But after carefully recomparing it with m y series of M. erythrocercus, I cannot find sufficient grounds for separating it. The Santa Lucia skins are rather larger than that from Dominica, and have the rufous portion of the inner webs of the rectrices still wider. Mr. Semper gives the vernacular name of this species as the "Pipperie Gran-bois." 17. TYRANNUS ROSTRATUS, Sclater, Ibis, 1864, p. 87. This Tyrant-bird, which is allied to T. griseus (sive dominicensis) oi the Larger Antilles, but remarkable for its large bill, was originally described by me in a note to one of Mr. Taylor's papers on West- Indian birds in 'The Ibis' for 1864. Mr. Taylor's specimen being, as he has stated, from Trinidad, I came to the conclusion that the example in my collection might really be from Cayenne, as I had always supposed from the style of preparation. But I have more recently ascertained that an exactly similar preparation is found in some skins from Martinique, and therefore think it more likely that my example of T. rostratus may have been obtained there. If such is the case, I think it is just possible that Mr. Taylor may have made an error in the locality of his skin, and may have collected it in Martinique or Dominica (which he also visited), and not in Trinidad. In Santa Lucia Mr. Semper tells us Tyrannus rostratus is called "Pipperie"-a usual name for the larger Tyranni, I believe, in the French colonies. 18. EULAMPIS JUGULARIS (Linn.); Gould, Mon. ii. pl. 82. "Bronze-winged Humming-bird," indig. Mr. Gould gives "Nevis" as the only certain locality of this Humming-bird. Mr. Taylor obtained it in Dominica and Martinique (Ibis, 1864, p. 169). We have now examples from St. Lucia. 19. EULAMPIS HOLOSERICEUS (Linn.); Gould, Mon. ii. pl. 83. " Emerald Humming-bird," indig. I have also skins of this species from St. Croix (Newton), Dominica (Taylor), and Martinique. I cannot quite appreciate the distinctness of Mr. Gould's E. chlorolcemus, from some unknown island though Mr. Gould has kindly done his best to make me realize it. 20. ORTHORHYNCHUS ORNATUS, Gould, Mon. iv. pl. 206. " Gold-headed Humming-bird," indig. Mr. Semper's skins agree with one in m y collection obtained by Mr. Taylor in Martinique, which has been referred to O. exilis (Ibis, 1864, p. 170). But Mr. Gould now pronounces both the Santa Lucia and Martinique skins to belong to his O. ornatus, which is thus geographically as well as structurally intermediate between O. cristatus of Barbadoes and St. Vincent and O. exilis oi the Virgin Islands and Nevis. * Cf. Ibis, 1804, p. 169. |