348 G. JE. Verrill — Fauna of the Island of Dominicct. 



Dominican specimens whence, those who adopt trinomials, would, 

 no doubt, call it M. ardesiaca albiventris.^^ And again, a little 

 further on, he alludes tf) it as M. ardesiaca albiventris but gives no 

 further description, and failed, as Mr. Allen remarks in his second 

 paper, to point out some of the principal differences between this 

 and M. ardesiaca (Vieill.) From this and the fact that he calls it 

 M. ardesiaca (Vieill.) in his enumerated list at the head of his article 

 it hardly seems as though he intended to recognize it as a sub-species, 

 and certainly not as a distinct species, which it is clearly shown to 

 be by the following characters given by Mr. Allen in his first article. 

 "Similiar to M. ardosciacea oi San Domingo and Porto Rico, but 

 much smaller, with much more white on the tail, and with the 

 abdomen strong buff instead of plumbeous fading into white." * * * 

 " This species finds its nearest relative in Mhnocichla ardosciacea 

 of Porto Rico and Santo Domingo holding somewhat the same re- 

 lation to it as regards the color of the ventral surface that M. rubripes 

 holds to M. phimbea. The wing and tail are each fullj^ three- 

 fourths of an inch shorter in 31. verrillorum than in M. ardosciacea; 

 the culmen is also shorter ; but the tarsi are slightly longer and 

 the wing appreciably more rounded. The white in the tail is much 

 purer and twice greater in extent, tipping the outer five pairs of 

 feathers instead of being confined to the outer four, as in the other 

 species of the genus, and occupying considerably more than the 

 apical half of th« outer feathers." 



■ Not taken by Mr. Ober, but probably the " 5. Thrush V" men- 

 tioned by Mr. Lawrence (Proc. U. S. Nat, Mus. i., ISVS, p. 5:^), as 

 having been "described l)y several persons, something like the 

 Thrush, but with yellow bill and legs." Nest and eggs not taken 

 but said by the natives to resemble those of the "Trembleur" ( (7. 

 raficauda.^ 



Appended is a list, complete so far as I have been able to ascertain, 

 of all the birds that have been recorded from Dominica. It contains 

 all the species recorded by Mr. E. C. Taylor, who was there in ISO;?; 

 Mr. Ober, who was there in 1877; Mr. Ramage, who was there in 

 1887 and 1888; and my brother and myself, who were there in 1890, 

 and shows what species were recorded by each collector, and whether 

 actually obtained .or observed by him. 



It is, I believe, the most complete list, so far published, of the birds 

 of this island, but it is not yet complete, probably by quite a number 

 of species, and it is, I think, quite probable that in some of the 

 denser and more unexplored parts of the island there may yet be 

 found birds entirely unex[)ect<'d there, or even undescribed s])ecies. 



