104 Mr. P. L. Sclater's Remarks on 



are excavated large and spacious rooms, stable, kitchen, and so 

 forth, which are at all seasons deliciously cool. The entrance 

 to this Robinson Crusoe^s habitation is formed by a subterraneous 

 passage from the surface of the ground some fifty yards distant, 

 and sloping gradually downwards till it emerges in the court- 

 yard just described. 



Our homeward route now lay due north, towards Tripoli ; and 

 a long day's march brought us to the foot of the hills. I heard 

 for the first time the clear song of the Orphean Warbler, Sylvia 

 orphea ; and the Woodchat-Shrike, Lanius auriculatus, seemed 

 very abundant among the olive-groves. Crossing the plain, I 

 met with a large flock of Bee-eaters, Merops apiaster, and I also 

 saw Saxicola ruhetra, Budytes flava, and several more Bush- 

 Babblers, Crateropus acacice. A pair of large Doves crossed our 

 path, but of what species they were I do not feel sure. On the 

 17th April I found myself once more under the hospitable roof 

 of our Consul-General, and on the 18th the Turkish steamer 

 * Tralulus Garb ' afforded me an opportunity of returning to 

 Malta. I afterwards travelled through Tunis and Algeria ; but 

 of no part of my trip do I entertain such pleasing recollections 

 as of my month's sojourn in Tripoli. 



V. — Remarks on Dr. Leotaud's ' Birds of Trinidad' *. By P. L. 

 SCLATER, M.A., F.R.S. &c. 



When we consider the easy communication so long established 

 between Trinidad and this country, and the facilities afforded 

 by the presence in that colony of professional bird-collectors, 

 it is certainly strange that the magnificent forests of that 

 island should have been so little visited by naturalists, and 

 that up to the present time no connected account has ever 

 been published of its rich avifauna. Except the interesting 

 article contributed by our colleague Mr. E. C. Taylor to this 



* Oiseaux de I'ile de la Trinidad (Antilles), par A. Leotaud, Docteur 

 en Medecine de la Faculte de Paris ; Membre Correspondant de la Societe 

 (le Medecine de Gand. Port d'Espagne : Chronicle Publishing Office, 1866. 

 I vol. 8vo, pp. 560. 



