Mr. R. B. Sharpe on Birds from Fao. 475 



ViREo CALiDRis (Linn.). 

 Saltator guadeloupensis, Lawr. 

 Elainea martinica (Linn.). 

 Tyrannus rostratus^ Sclater. 

 EuLAMPis HOLOSERicEUS (Linn.). 

 EuLAMPis jUGULARis (Linn.). 

 Bellona cristata (Linn.). 

 Geotrygon mystacea (Temm.). 

 Ardea virescens (Linn.). 



Mr. Richardson stopped several days in St. Lucia, but 

 collected nothing there, not being able to procure a permit 

 to shoot birds from the authorities; but he purchased a 

 number of skins from a native living in the interior of the 

 island, and among them examples of a black Loxigilla already 

 described ('Auk/ 1886, p. 382) as a supposed new species. 

 The lot contained examples of ten species. 



Myiadestes sanct^-luci^, Stejn. 



CiNCLOCERTHIA MACRORHYNCHA (Sclatcr). 



Ramphocinclus brachyurus (Vieill.). 

 Dendrceca delicata (Ridgw.). 

 Leucopeza semperi, Sclater. 

 Certhiola martinicana, Reich. 



LOXIGILLA RICHARDSONI, Cory. 



Euphonia flavifrons (Sparrm.), 

 Icterus laudabilis, Sclater. 

 CoNTOPUs LATiRosTRis, Vcrr. 



XLVI. — On a Collection of Birds from Fao, in the Persian 

 Gulf. By R. Bowdler Sharpe, F.L.S. &c. With Notes 

 by the Collector, W. D. Gumming. 



The British Museum has received during the past year a 

 valuable series of birds from Mr, W. D. Gumming, who is 

 stationed at Fao, and is a most energetic collector. The 



