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4. Ammodromus savannarum (Gra.). 

 Very rare on Curacao, and only met with near Beekenburg, 



in a stony valley of grass and low bushes. Not previously 

 recorded from Curasao. 



5. Zonotrichia pileata (Bodd.) ; Berl. J. f. O. 1892, 

 p. 82. 



Local name " Chonchorrongai." 



As a rule specimens of this bird from Curasao are rather 

 pale, but this character is not constant. It does not build 

 closed nests, as suggested by Herr Peters (J. f. O. 1892, 

 p. 115), but open ones, like other species of this genus. I 

 found two eggs at the end of July. They are of a very pale- 

 blue colour, regularly spotted with rufous. They measure 

 0-8 to 0-6 inch. 



6. Euetheia sharpei, Hartert. 

 Euetheia bicolor, Berl. J. f. O. 1892, p. 81 ; Peters, t. c. 



p. 116. 



Euetheia sharpei, Hart. Bull. B. O. C. vii. p. xxxvii. 



Of all the birds that I collected on my West-Indian trip, 

 those of the genus Euetheia (or Phonipara, as it is termed by 

 Dr. Sharpe and others) are the most puzzling. After a care- 

 ful comparison of all the materials at hand, I came to the 

 following conclusions, and I believe that those ornithologists 

 who have sufficient evidence to form an opinion will agree 

 with me. 



(1) Dr. Sharpe is correct in retaining as a separate sub- 

 species E. marchi, notwithstanding that Mr. Cory has united 

 all the West-Indian Euetheice. A fine additional series from 

 San Domingo has arrived at the British Museum since the 

 publication of the twelfth volume of the Catalogue. I think 

 it will speak well for the distinctness of E. marchi when I say 

 that, on a dark December day in London, I was able to pick out 

 in a minute all the males of E. marchi, without mistake or 

 hesitation, from the box containing E. bicolor, in which they 

 had been provisionally placed. Besides the characters given 

 by Dr. Sharpe in the ' Catalogue of Birds/ E. marchi evidently 

 has the bill of a much lighter brown. 

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