35§ CAMPS IN THE CARIBBEES. 



11. Myiarchus Sclatcri. 

 [Martinique Catalogue, p. 357.J 



Descriptions of Seven New Species of Birds from 

 the Island of St. Vincent, West Indies. 



When Mr. Ober had completed his investigations in Dominica he 

 proceeded to St. Vincent ; but unfortunately, while there, he had two 

 attacks of fever, one early in October, from which he soon recovered, 

 but in December he had a relapse ; by this he was completely pros- 

 trated, and it was not until the end of January that he was convales- 

 cent. 



There were also constant rains, and consequently his collecting was 

 seriously interfered with. He thinks, however, that the specimens 

 obtained, and the birds observed, complete quite thoroughly the avi- 

 fauna of the island. 



He left for the island of Grenada about the 1st of March, at 

 which time he forwarded to the Smithsonian the collection made in 

 St. Vincent. There are only ninety specimens, representing thirty- 

 five species ; seven of these I consider new to science, and their 

 descriptions are given below. Besides the species sent, he enumer- 

 ates twenty-four others, which he either saw, or had named to him 

 as undoubtedly frequenting the island : making the total number 

 fifty-nine. 



1 2 . Turdus n ig rirostris . 



Female. Front, crown, and occiput dark warm brown, each 

 feather of the crown and occiput with a shaft-stripe of dull pale rufous ; 

 upper plumage reddish olivaceous brown, deeper in color on the 

 upper part of the back and on the wing-coverts ; the latter have 

 their ends marked with small spots of bright rufous, which possibly 

 may be an evidence of the example not being fully mature ; the tail 

 is of a dark warm brown, the shafts black ; inner webs of quills black- 

 ish-brown ; the outer webs reddish-brown, of the same color as the 

 tail-feathers ; the shafts are glossy-black ; under lining of wings 

 clear cinnamon red ; under plumage light brownish ash, with the 

 middle of the abdomen and the crissum white ; on the upper part of 

 the breast a few feathers end with dark reddish-brown, forming an 

 irregular narrow band ; the throat unfortunately is soiled with blood, 

 but as well as I can judge, it lias stripes colored like the breast, and the 

 feathers edged with whitish ; the thighs are dull fulvous; the bill is 



