Birds of Mu7itserrat. 489 



Mr, Lawrence Icterus oberi (See Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. iii. 

 p. 351). 



5. ElAINEA MARTINICA. 



I know little of the habits of this bird. My specimen was 

 shot near the Cot, in the same locality and on the same day 

 as Cinclocerthia ruficauda ; and I believe 1 frequently saw it 

 elsewhere. 



6. EuLAMPis JUGULARis. Ruby-throat Humming-bird. 

 This species is nowhere by any means common ; and yet I 



observed it occasionally in suitable situations on the slopes 

 of the mountain-ravines and on the skirts of the high woods in 

 nearly every part of the island which I visited, but never at 

 less than 1000 feet elevation. Its existence was scarcely 

 known to the planters and officials of the island, to whom the 

 Emerald-crest [Orthorhynchus exilis) and the common Long- 

 billed Humming-bird [Eulampis holosericeus) were as fami- 

 liar as Sparrows are to us. 



The first bird I shot in the West Indies was a beautiful 

 example of Eulampis jugularis, which I saw displaying its 

 dazzling ruby breast and metallic-green wings at the white 

 flowers of a beautiful tree growing on the slope of a ravine 

 known as the Banana Gut, facing the sea, and within sight of 

 a magnificent view of the neighbouring islands of Nevis and 

 Redonda, the most charming spot, I think, that it has ever 

 been my lot to see. I saw the bird fall ; but it was some time 

 before I discovered it, lodged between the leaf-stalk and the 

 stem of one of the stately and beautiful bananas with which 

 the accessible parts of the ravine or gut were planted. 



7. Eulampis holosericeus. Long-billed Humming-bird. 



This species is very common in the gardens and among the 

 flowering shrubs throughout the island, in company with the 

 little Emerald-crest {Orthorhynchus exilis). 



I obtained two or three mutilated specimens of the bird, 

 but did not preserve them, imagining that I should meet with 

 the same species in Trinidad. 



Mr. Holme and I identified it beyond doubt, by reference 

 to authorities, as Eulampis holosericeus. 



