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Table of dimensions. 



Hab. Martinique. The label ou No. 7ol3G states that the species 

 is " abundant in high valleys." 



Remarks. — I have applied Swainson's name to this species with 

 some hesitation, because Mr. P. L. Sclater (P. Z. S. 1871, p. 269) 

 stares, that he has " compared the Santa Lucia skins of this bird with 

 two examples of M. genibarhis in the Swainsonian collection at Cam- 

 bridge (which, although not so marked, are in all probability typical 

 specimens), and find them agree." On the other hand, the Martinique 

 bird agrees much better with the figure and description of Swainson, 

 which give the chin as having the same color as the throat. And as it 

 is not quite clear from the statement of Mr. Sclater— who expressly 

 mentions, that the St. Lucia skins do not agree with the said figure and 

 description — to perceive, whether the birds in the Swainsonian collec- 

 tion differ in the same manner, I have preferred to give the name in 

 question to the form which best agrees with the plate and the descrip- 

 tion, and to which Prof. S. F. Baird, in his admirable review (1. c.) 

 already has applied the name. From Professor Baird's description it is 

 evident that he has had before him specimens of this species, and that the 

 determination of the locality, "Martinique," in the Lafresnaye collection 

 was right. Besides, it is more probable that Swainson has had speci- 

 mens from Martinique than from Sta. Lucia, since birds from the former 

 island were common in collections, while it' is very doubtful whether 

 any skins at all had been brought to Europe from the latter at the time 

 when Swainson described his species. 



3. MYADESTES SANCT^-LUCI^ Stejneger. 

 [PLatell, Fig. 4.] 

 1^71.— Myiadestes genibarhis Sclat. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1871, p. 269.— Semper, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond. 1872, p. 649.— SCL. and Salv. Av. Neotrop. (1873) p. 4. 



Mus. CoMP. ZooL. Cambr. :N"o. 29582. {Ad. JSta, Lucia. John 

 Semper.) 



Second primary two and a half times the 1st, which is attenuated and 

 very slightly fiilcate; 2d attenuated and slightly si nuated at end; 3d 

 normal; 2d intermediate in length between 7th and 8th, 3d equal to 6th, 



