on the Birds of St. Croix. 375 



of which we trust we may yet obtain specimens, though we 

 have never met with any person in the island v/ho was cognizant 

 of a Pigeon in which green was the prevaihng colour. Gmelin's 

 C. sancti-thoma is by Mr. G. R. Gray (List of Columbse, B. M. 

 (1856), p. 13) referred, but with doubt, to Treron phcenicoptera, 

 Blyth, a Nepalese species, with which the bird from St. Thomas 

 is hardly likely to prove identical. 



M. Ledru says that MM. Baudin and Mauge brought from 

 St. Thomas " le cou-jaune, — Matacilla [sic] pensilis, Gm., 960, 

 qui ressemble un peu a la linotte, — -fringilla linota; mais il 

 est plus mince et plus jaune." ! We have before stated that 

 we are sure that any person, on the look-out for birds in these 

 islands during the winter months, would meet with many more 

 of the North American Warblers than occurred to us ; we there- 

 fore see no reason to doubt that this species, whose proper name 

 appears to be Dendroeca superciliosa, Baird, may be found in 

 either St. Thomas or St. Croix*. 



" Le pigeon cocotzin, ou petite tourterelle, — columba pas- 

 serina, Gm., 787," is evidently the Chamapelia trochila (No. 28) 

 of this paper, which was only separated by Prince C. L. Bona- 

 parte in 1854 from the United States' species with which it 

 had been previously confounded. 



The next statement of M. Ledru is one to which we can 

 scarcely give unqualified assent, even if we felt sure we under- 

 stood his meaning. He includes in his list, but without naming 

 them, " Cinq colibris et deux oiseaux-mouches d'une autre 

 espece (le male et la femelle), dont les couleurs sont moius 

 foncees." Now there is certainly found in St. Thomas, besides 

 the two Humming-birds Eulampis chlorolamus and Orthorhyn- 

 chus exilis (Nos. 8 and 9) of this paper, which also occur in 

 St. Croix, a third species f, of which we have, thanks to the 

 exertions of Herr. Riise, a good series of specimens; and 

 these apparently differ only in size from examples of Lampornis 



* It occurs in Jamaica, from which islands we possess specimens. — 

 Ed. 



t "On May 25th, 1857, I saw in a garden in the town (Charlotte- 

 Amalie) of St. Thomas, a largeish Humming-bird, which was nearly white 

 beneath, and was therefore probably either a female or young male of this 

 species." — A. N. 



