APPENDIX. 363 



Length (fresh), 5 f in. ; wing, 2;] ; tail, 2^ ; tarsus, \. 



Two specimens marked as females do not differ in plumage from 

 the males. 



Length (fresh), 5^ in. ; wing. - ,; ( ! ; tail, 2J ; tarsus, J. 



Another specimen, marked male, and of quite different color-. I 

 have no doubt is the young of this species ; though Mr. Ober, in his 

 notes, says of it (No. 428) : " The quickest to respond to my call on 

 the Soufriere, was this little bird. It seems an associate of the pre- 

 ceding species (L. Bishopi)^ though I never saw them closely toj 

 er ; yet in general shape and habits, especially in search for ins 

 they resembled one another. As I have got both male and female 

 of the other, it precludes the possibility of its being the adult of the 

 former. That there maybe no doubt, I have preserved one in rum." 



The color of this specimen (No. 428) is of a dark olive-brown 

 above, lighter below, and where the white markings are in the adult, 

 it is of a pale dull rufous ; on the throat showing some white, and 

 around the eye partially white; the marks on the ends of the tail- 

 feathers are precisely as in the black specimens ; the quills are dark 

 brown ; the tail-feathers are black. But what I consider conclusive 

 evidence of its being the young of L. Bishopi is, that on the crown 

 the black feathers are beginning to appear. Had it not been marked 

 as a male, I should have taken it for the female of this species. But 

 according to Mr. Ober, the sexes are alike. 



Types in National Museum, Washington. 



Remarks. This is a remarkable species, and at first I was at 

 a loss where to place it properly ; I determined it to be a Sylvico- 

 line form, yet unlike any of that family in coloration. On comparing 

 it with the description and plate of Leucopeza Scmpcri, Mr. Scla- 

 ter's new form from St. Lucia (P. Z. S., 1876, p. 14), I determined it 

 to be a second species of that peculiar genus, and, like that species, 

 having long and light-colored tarsi. 



Mr. Ober requested that I would bestow the name of our friend 

 Mr. Nathaniel H. Bishop on some West India bird of his procuring, 

 if the opportunity offered ; and it gives me much pleasure to connect 

 his name with so remarkable a species. 



The habits of this bird would seem to be like those of the wren, 

 as Mr. Ober has on the labels, "Wren? " He states that they are 

 " very rare and very shy, and found in the crater and dark gorges of 

 the Soufriere." 



Three specimens were obtained in November, 1 S77, and one in 

 February, 1878. 



