Messrs. A. and E. Newton U7i the Birds of St. Croix. 59 



basi ima et crisso cinnamomescenti-albis : alis fusco-nigri- 

 cantibus, tectricibus majoribus albido, remigibus cinnamo- 

 meo extus marginatis : rostro et pedibus nigro-fuscis : long, 

 tota 7"0^ alfe 3'6, caudse 2'7, tarsi 1-2, rostri a rictu '8. 



$ supra cinuamomea, interscapulio obscuriore, uropygio dilu- 

 tiore, subtus sordide alba : alis caudaque nigrieanti-fuscis, 

 illis cinnamomescenti-albo limbatis, hujus basi late cinna- 

 momea. 



Hab. in Sahara Algeriensi, arbusta frequentans. 



Obs. Forsan Dromolcea isabellina Lochii, sed cum Saxicold 

 isabellind Riippellii et Temminckii minime cosequalis. 



8. Saxicola halophila, Tristram. 



Suprk cinnamomea, superciliis et dorso postico pure albis : late- 

 ribus capitis et alis nigricantibus ; his sordido albo anguste 

 marginatis : Cauda alba, rectricura lateralium fascia lata 

 terminali et duabus mediis fere omninb fusco-nigris : subtiis 

 alba, gutture et pectore cinereo adumbratis : rostro et 

 pedibus nigris : long, tota 5*5, alse 3*5, caudse 2*4, tarsi 

 I'O, rostri a rictu 0'6. 

 $ mari similis, sed coloribus paullo dilutioribus, et lateribus 



capitis prsecipue minus nigris. 

 Hab. in Sahara Algeriensi, loca sahfera frequentans. 



9. Saxicola homochroa, Tristram. 



Pallide cinnamomea, subtiis dilutior : cauda nigra : venti'e uro- 

 pygio et crisso cum basi caudse albis : alis nigrieanti-fuscis 

 sordido albo omnino limbatis : rostro et pedibus nigrieanti- 

 fuscis : long, tota 5'5, alse 3'5, caudse 2'5, tarsi '95, rostri 

 a rictu 0*6. 

 Hab. in Sahara Tunitana. 



VI. — Observations on the Birds of St. Croix, West Indies, made, 

 between February 20th and Aur/ust 6th 1857 by Alfred 

 Newton, and, between March 4th and September 2Sth 1858 

 by Edward Newton. (Part I.) 



The Danish Island of Saint Croix, or, as it is often called, Santa 

 Cruz, lies between 64° 40' and 64° 59' longitude West of Green- 

 wich, and in lat. 17° 45' North, about forty miles nearly due South 

 from St. Thomas, and eighty miles East by South of Porto Rico. 

 It is about twenty miles in its greatest length, which lies almost 

 due east and west, with a breadth varying from one to four 



