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(3) The distribution of the two forms, E. bicolor and 

 E. marchi, as given by Dr. Sharpe cannot be maintained. 

 There is no doubt that the Greater Antilles, Jamaica, San 

 Domingo (and Porto Rico ?) are inhabited by E. marchi, 

 but Dr. Sharpe was misled by insufficient materials into 

 including St. Thomas in its range. I have shot several 

 males on St. Thomas, which clearly show that this island is 

 tenanted by E. bicolor proper, the same as the Bahaman form, 

 which is the typical one. Dr. Sharpe now agrees with me 

 that the bird from St. Thomas is E. bicolor, and not E. marchi ; 

 he further writes me that the only male from Santa Lucia in 

 the British Museum is a badly made-up skin and difficult 

 to determine, although it looks somewhat like E. marchi. 

 The Barbadian bird, singularly enough, is, in Dr. Sharpens 

 opinion, E. marchi, while the other islands of the Lesser 

 Antilles are inhabited by E. bicolor. This seems very curious, 

 but the outlying island of Barbados differs geologically 

 and zoologically in many respects from the Lesser Antilles 

 (cf. Feilden, Ibis, 1889, p. 478) ; therefore it is not very re- 

 markable that Barbados should have a different form of 

 Euetheia, but possibly additional materials might show that 

 it is not the same as E. marchi — unless it has been intro- 

 duced, which is not likely, as it is so common on that 

 island. 



(3) A series of skins from Aruba, Curacao, and Bonaire 

 belongs to neither of these two forms. Berlepsch (J. f . O. 

 1892, p. 81) first pointed out the differences of this new 

 form, but having received only one male he did not know 

 whether these differences were constant or not. I have named 

 it E. sharpei, in honour of Dr. Sharpe and his work on the 

 Fringillidse. 



(4) The birds from Venezuela and Tobago are similar 

 inter se, but differ slightly from the Bahaman form, to which 

 they are most nearly allied. These therefore must stand as 

 E. omissa (Jardine) (type ex Tobago). 



(5) It might, on account of the close relationship of these 

 forms, the not yet sufficiently denned distribution of them, 

 and the possibility of the occurrence of intermediate forms, 



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