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Show 1879.] MR. P. L. SCLATER ON BIRDS FROM MONTSERRAT. 765 Local Name, as given by Mr. Sturge. Scientific Name. 1. *' Thrush " Margarops densirostris. 2. " Yellow-breasted Sparrow " Certhiola dominicana. 3. "Sparrow" Phonipara bicolor. 4. "Kingfisher" Ceryle alcyon. 5. "Quaker-bird" Coccyzus minor. 6. " Killie-Hawk " Tinnunculus sparverius. 7. "CrabGaulin" Ardea herodias. 8. " White Gaulin " Ardea candidissima. 9. " Waterwitch " Butorides virescens. 10. " Blue Pigeon " or " Eamier " Columba corensis. 11. "Mountain-Dove" Zenaida martinicana. 12. " Partridge Dove " G-eotrygon mystacea. 13. "Coot" Gallinula galeata. 14. " Diver " Podilyinbus podiceps. Mr. Sclater observed that all these birds also occurred in the neighbouring islands of Barbuda, Antigua, and Guadeloupe, or one of them, as recorded by Mr. Lawrence in his articles on Mr. Ober's collections from these localities lately published in the ' Proceedings of the United-States National Museum.' At the same time it was highly desirable that further collections should be made in Montserrat, where it was quite possible that peculiar species would still be found amongst the Passeres. [P.S. Jan. 30th, 1880.-Mr. Sturge has since sent me examples of three other species of birds from Montserrat-namely, Loxigilla noctis, Elainea martinica, and Puffinus obscurus,-and has kindly promised to continue his collections.-P. L. S.] Mr. R. G. Wardlaw Ramsay exhibited a specimen of Pericrocotus flammeus in an abnormal state of plumage, and made the following remarks:- " I have tbe pleasure of exhibiting a rather interesting specimen of Pericrocotus flammeus, which I obtained some years ago on the Neilgherry Mountains, in Southern India. " Briefly speaking, the normal plumage of the adults of this species is red and black in the male, and yellow and grey in the female. The plumage of the young male is much like that of the adult female ; and specimens are to be found in museums exhibiting every stage of the transition from the grey-and-yellow to the black-and-red dress. The peculiarity in this particular specimen, which is a male, is that it has entirely assumed the black plumage of the adult male without any attempt having been made to change the yellow into red; so that we have here a specimen, to all appearances adult, which is partly clothed in the dress of the male and partly in that of the female. The following papers were read:- |