330 Mr. P. R. Lowe on Birds collected 



Cuba I have also seen the candelabra-like flower-scapes of 

 the Agave crowded with another Icterine bird, viz. Icterus 

 hypomelas. 



Blanquilla Island. 



On January 7th we arrived at Blanquilla Island, which 

 Sir Frederic Johnstone had very kindly consented to touch at 

 again to enable rae to get a series of specimens of the Parrot 

 found there, which I had been unable to do during our previ- 

 ous visit. In addition to securing seven of these birds, which 

 are to be found in abundance on the island, I also obtained one 

 or two examples of a Tyrant, Tyrannus dominicensis (Gmelin), 

 which I did not meet with on our first visit to the island in 

 1906, and four more examples of the Myiarchus which I have 

 referred in my paper on the birds of Blanquilla (' Ibis/ 1907, 

 p. 118) to Myiarchus tyrannulus. I think there can be no 

 doubt, however, that these birds should be called Myiarchus 

 brevipennis Hartert. I have compared my examples with a 

 series kindly sent to me by Dr. Hartert from the Tring 

 Museum, and mine appear to be identical with his. 



ChRYSOTIS KOTHSCniLDI. 



C/irysotis rothschildi. Hartert, Bull. B. O. C. iii. p. xii ; id. 

 Ibis, 1893, pp. 123, 328; Lowe, Ibis, 1907, p. 117. 



Six males, two females, and one immature specimen 

 unsexed. 



I have compared my series of Parrots from Blanquilla 

 with a series from Bonaire, which Dr. Hartert kindly lent 

 me for comparison from the Tring Museum. It included 

 the two types of C. rothschildi. As noted above, I have 

 referred my Blanquilla birds to this form, but the series is 

 rather puzzling. 



Some of my specimens agree with C. rothschildi in that 

 the green coloration extends to the lower mandible, and 

 is seen as a bar on either side of the chin. The distribution 

 of the yellow colour on the vertex and sides of the head 

 also agrees with Dr. Hartert's description of this bird ; 

 but, ou the other hand, several of my examples exhibit 



