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A conipari.son betwoen the specimens from St, Vincent and others from 

 the island of Dominica, kindly loaned by Dr. Louis B. Bishop, shows that 

 the Dominica bird is darker and more sooty above, more heavily marked 

 on the breast, and deeper bnff on the nnderparts, su<?gesting the presence 

 of a good local race on that island. All tiie birds were obtained in October 

 and September. The iris of the Dominica birds is given as white (A. H. 

 Verrill, collector). 



I have examined a specimen from (Hiba (in the collection of Messrs. E. 

 A. and O. Bangs) which agrees very well with the St. Vincent examples 

 except in size. It is marked " male," but is the size of the females from 

 St. Vincent, There is a possibility that the bird is wrongly sexed. 



AVhile on the island of Carriacou in the Grenadines, I had an opportu- 

 nity of examining, through the kindness of Dr. Dunbar B. B. Hughes, a 

 number of eggs of this bird, in the collection of the late INI r. John Grant 

 Wells, which were obtained in Grenada. Six sets were represented. The 

 eggs are dull bluish white, unspotted. The natives at St. Vincent also in- 

 formed me that this bird laid unspotted eggs. 



Distribution. Grenada, Bequia (Grenadines), St. Vincent, St. Lucia, 

 Dominica, and probably other of the lesser Antilles ; Cuba. ? Porto Rico 



Urubitinga anthracina cancrivora subsp. nov. 



WEST INDIAN BLACK HAWK. CRABIER. 



Type. From Barrouallie, St. Vincent, Jan. 22, 1904. No. 12,804, female 

 adult, coll. E. A. and O. Bangs. 



Ch'tmcters. Bill longer and relatively narrower, with more produced 

 tip than in true U. anlhraclna from the mainland ; feathers of hind neck 

 and back spotted with buflf and white (in U. a. nnthracina the hind neck 

 is spotted with whitish, but there is very little if any on the back); gen- 

 eral color deeper black than in the mainland form. 



This bird inhaljits the higher wooded valleys of St. Vincent, keeping 

 near the ground. It is rarely seen far from water. 



The type specimen was presented to me by Mr. John F. H. Otway, the 

 Colonial Postmaster of St. Vincent. • ^,-,,,-w-;-,^ 



