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Fam. FRINGILLID^. 



16. Loxigilla noctis (Linn.). 



"'Black-binl.' 



"Leugtb, (?, 54 iu. ; alar extent, 1); wiug, 3. 



" Leugtb, 9, 5 iu. ; alar extent, 8i ; wiug, 2^. 



" The yonug at first are like the females — gray. Its favorite tree is 

 the silk cotton ; it is very plentifully distributed." 



There is but oue pair of this species iu the collection ; they are of 

 rather smaller dimensions than examples from Dominica. The bill is 

 also somewhat smaller, but yet very much larger thau that cf the bird 

 from Guiana, which 1 called var. propinqua in the Dominica catalogue ; 

 the last is of a much smaller size. 



17. Phonipara bicolor (Linn.). 

 " 'Ground Sparrow.' 



" Length, <?, 4^ in. ; alar extent, Gf ; wiug, 2. 



" The most numerous of any species ; everywhere it is found, except, 

 l)erhaps, in the depths of the ' high woods'. It breeds in nearly every 

 month from February to October ; its nest is dome-shaped, like nearly 

 all those of small birds in these islands. I procured many nests and 

 eggs iu Dominica.'' 



Fam. ICTERID^. 



18. Quiscalus ? 



"A bird called the ' Bequia Swee ', from its note ; a black bird, much 

 resembling the Crow Blackbird, though smaller, the female the color of 

 the female Cowbird ; is plentiful iu the adjacent keys, and a few have 

 been blown here by storms." 



Fam. TYRANNIDtE. 



19. Iilainea martinica (Linn.). 

 " Flycatcher. 



" Length, S , 6^ iu. ; alar extejit, 11 5 wing, 3J. 



"The most common of these birds; much frequents the silk-cotton 

 tree and the low bushes on hill sides." 



20. Myiarchus oberi, Lawr. 



" Flycatcher ; ' Pii)eree.' 

 " Length, (^, 8| in.; alar extent, 12^; wing, 4. 



'•A companion of the preceding species, and found in the same locali- 

 ties." 



21. Tyraimus rostratus, Scl. 

 " Piperee. 



"Length,!?, 9 iu.; alar extent, 15J ; wing, 4|. 

 "Common iu town and country." 



