306 Mr. P. R. Lowe on Birds collected 



Barbados. 



Leaving Monte Carlo on Nov. llth^ 1907, we arrived at 

 Barbados on Dec. 4th and left that island on Dec. 12th. 

 During this and a previous visit I obtained specimens 

 of all the resident birds on the island except the Vireo. 

 They are so well known that I merely add a note or two on 

 one or two forms which seem to call for remark. 



Zenaida aurita Temm. & Knip. 



This very handsome Dove is fairly generally distributed 

 over the island, but is nowhere very abundant except in 

 the hilly " Scotland " district. I shot a few examples, and 

 it seems to be distinguishable by well-marked differences 

 from other forms of this genus found in the Lesser Antilles. 



Cham^pelia antillaru.m. 



Chamcepelia antillarum Lowe, Bull. B. O. C. vol. xxi. p. 109 

 (1908). 



This Grround-Dove, which is also found on the islands of 

 St. Vincent and Grenada, has the base of the bill olive- 

 brown, with no trace of either yellow, orange, or crimson, 

 except that in some specimens, in the perfectly fresh state, 

 there is to be seen the thinnest possible line of yellow along 

 the upper edge of the mandible. Its nearest ally is C. ber- 

 mudiana Bangs ; but the bill of that bird is almost uniformly 

 black, while the edges of the mandibles have a thin line of 

 crimson. C. antillarum is also larger and much richer in 

 coloration than examples from Bermuda. 



I have twenty specimens in my collection from the three 

 islands. How much further north along the Antilleau chain 

 this form extends, I have had no opportunity of discovez'iug. 



El^nia martinica barbadensis. 



Elainea barbadensis Cory, Auk, v. 1888, p. 47. 



Elcenia martinica martinica Ridgw. Birds North and 

 Middle Amer. pt. iv. p. 426. 



Elainea martinica Nicoll, Ibis,. 1904, pp. 558." 



Elainea martinica Berlepsch, Proc. Fourth Intern. Orn. 

 Congress, 1907, p. 394. 



