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the call if within hearing, but are shy, flying cautiously from tree to 

 tree, never long at rest." 



2. Margarops densirostris (Vieill.). 

 " ' Gros grive.' Very shy. 



" Length, c? , 11^ ; alar extent, 17^ ; wing, 5^. 

 " Length, 9 , 11^ ; alar extent, 17^ ; wing, 5 J. 



3. Margarops montanus (Vieill.). 

 "'Grivette'. 



" Length, ^ , 10 in. ; alar extent, 15 ; wing, 5. 

 "Length, 9, 9J in.; alar extent, 15; wing, 5. 

 "More numerous than the large ^ Gros grive'." 



4. Cinclocerthia ruficauda, Gould. 



" ' Trembleur.' Not so abundant as in Dominica. 

 " Length, <? , 10 in. ; alar extent, 13 ; wing, 4. 

 " Length, 9 , 10 in. ; alar extent, 13 ; wing, 4." 



Fam. TROGLODYTIDJE. 



5. Thryothorus rufescens, Lawr. 

 " Wren." 



"Length, <?, 4f iu.; alar extent, 6|; wing, 2, 

 " Length, 9 , 4f in. ; alar extent, Of ; wing, 2. 



" I found this bird only in the second growth of the hills, and in a 

 wood in the flat portion of the island." 



Fam. SYLVICOLID^. 



6. Siurus nxvius (Bodd.). 



" Water Wagtail. Eare and shy, 



" Length, 9 , in. ; alar extent, 9|- ; wing, 3. 



" In the mangroves bordering the Eiviere Salee, near Point a Pitre." 



7. Dendroeca petechia var. melanoptera, La^vr. 

 " ' Jaune.' Male. 



"Length, c?, 5 in.; alar extent, 7; wing, 2\', tail, 1|, 



" Length, 9 , 4^ in. ; alar extent, 7 ; Aving, 2^^ ; tail, 1|. 



" More numerous than in Dominica ; wdth the two sparrows the bird 

 most commonly met with in the gardens and cofl'ee plantations. In the 

 latter, I find it cliiefly in the pois douce trees, which, origiually planted 

 as wind-breaks for the coffee plants' protection, seam the hills all around 

 in long rows. These trees were the haunt of the sparrows in Dominica, 

 and of the warbler that I found there. They bear a pea-like pod. con- 

 taining seeds surrounded with a sweet pulp, hence their name : pois 

 douce, or sweet bean." 



Male : The crown as far as the occiput is of a brownish-rufous ; the 



