374 Messrs. A. and E. Newton's Obsei'vations 



by Captain Baudin in tlie years 1796-8. His work *, accom- 

 panied by notes by M. Sonnini, was not published until twelve 

 yeai's after his return to France. It contains an "Essai sur 

 rhistoire naturclle dcs ilcs danoises," from whicli (vol. ii. p. 3D) 

 we transcribe what relates to the birds, adding our own com- 

 ments. 



" La petite perruchc, ou tovi a tete d'or. — Psittacus tui Gm., 

 352." This is in all probability the Parrakeet which is now 

 found in St. Thomas, and there only (as far as we know), 

 restricted to the hills on the eastern side of the harbour, called 

 Havensigt. To our brother, Mr. F. R, Newton of St. Croix, 

 we are indebted for some specimens of this bird, obtained during 

 the past summer, which not only, as indeed might have been 

 predicted from its habitat, is not Gmelin's Ps. tui, but appears 

 to be a species hitherto undescribed. It belongs to the genus 

 Cunurus, and, though it a good deal resembles C. aruginosus 

 G. R. Gray, yet differs from that bird in wanting the brown 

 throat. We subjoin the character of this new species drawn up 

 by Mr. Sclater, who has bestowed upon it the name of Conuriis 

 xantholamus, and described it in the 'Annals of Natural History ' 

 for September last (ser. 3, vol. iv. p. 325) : — 



"Lsete viridis, pileo summo cjerulesccnte; froute lato, oculorum 

 ambitu, lateribus capitis et gula aurantiaco-flavis : pectore ful- 

 vescente : abdomine et tectricibus alarum inferioribus pallide 

 flavo-viridibus, ventre medio aurantiaco-flavo : remigibus alarum 

 intus fusco-nigris, extus cserulescenti-viridibus ; cauda subtus 

 flavicanti-olivacea, supra dorso concolore, apicem versus cajru- 

 lescente; rostro nigro, pedibus nigricantibus. Long, tota 9*5, 

 alffi 5-3, Cauda 4.-3." 



The next birds in M. Ledru's list are — 



" Le carouge de Cayenne. — Oriolus Cayennemisf, Gm., 391 ; " 

 and " Le grebe-duc-Laart. — Colymhus thomensis, Gnu, 592 : " 

 neither of which do we know. And then comes 



"Le pigeon vert. — Columba Sancti-Thoma, Gm., 778" — 



* " Voyage aux lies de Teneriffe, la Trinite, Saint-Thomas, Sainte- 

 Croix et Porto-Ricco, &c. Par Andre- Pierre Ledru, &e. Paris, 1810." 

 2 vols. 16ino. 



t Perha])s Pendullnus dominicensis (Linn.), whicli is common in St. 

 Domingo, and, we believe, occurs in Porto Rico. — Ed. 



