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examples found in Dominica and St. Lucia — M. oberi Lawr. 

 They are also easily distinguished, both in size (larger) and 

 coloration, from examples of M. iyrannulus Miiller. 



MOLOTHRUS ATRONITENS (Cabauis). 



At the southern end of Grenada this beautiful glossy 

 Cow-bird is rapidly establishing itself. I saw numbers flying 

 about with flocks of Quiscalus luminosus, and shot four 

 specimens. The bird has a most charming song — a series 

 of low musical flute-like notes of extraordinary sweetness. 

 I listened to one for some time as it sang on the ground 

 beneath a mangrove bush. 



Los Testigos Islands. 



Leaving Trinidad on the afternoon of Dec. 31st, we 

 arrived in the early morning of Jan. 1st, 1908, at this 

 group of little-known islands and after some trouble found 

 a very snug and safe anchorage in an almost land-locked 

 position under the lee of the largest of them, which is called 

 Testigo Grande (Great Witness) or Goat Island. 



These islands, six or seven in number, lie off the north 

 coast of Venezuela. They are forty-three miles from the 

 mainland, eighty-five miles from Grenada, and fifty-one 

 miles north-east (roughly) of Margarita. 



Testigo Grande is of greater extent than is given in the 

 sailing directions. We put its length at from three to 

 three and a half miles, but its shape is very irregular, and 

 in the short time at our disposal we had no opportunity of 

 taking more accurate measurements. Its greatest height 

 is (roughly) 400 to 500 feet. 



Scattered round it are other smaller islands or rocky 

 fallarones. The group is periodically inhabited by fisher- 

 men, who go there from January to April, but we were 

 informed that one family now lived there all the year. 



Testigo Grande is thickly wooded and covered with very 

 varied vegetation, in spite of the waterless condition in which 

 we found it. Many of the trees attain quite respectable pro- 

 portions, and there seemed to me to be an unusual variety. 

 Besidec: many that were unknown to me, I noticed Logwood, 



