^°1908^^] Clark, The Macaw of Doviimca. 311 



were referred to in a footnote. announcing the fact. By a typo- 

 graphical error, the reference number which should have followed 

 Amazona martinicana was placed after Amazona houqiieti. I did 

 not consider it necessary to call attention to this obvious slip in a 

 special note, more particularly as nothing was said of the species 

 being extinct in the main body of the paper (p. 343) where it is 

 mentioned, while the name martinicana is here used for the first 

 time, provisionally conferred upon a long extinct form. Count 

 Salvadori, however,^ in the following year, notes that "Mr. Clark 

 mentions this species {bouquetil as already extinct," and later ^ 

 publishes a letter from Mr. A. H. Verrill apparently showing that 

 the bird is rather abundant at the present time. While it is un- 

 fortunate that the mistake occurred, I cannot quite see how such a 

 palpable typographical error could have passed unnoticed. As a 

 matter of fact I am happy to be able to state that the bird still 

 exists in certain parts of Dominica. 



Count Salvadori is not convinced by the arguments with which 

 I tried to show that Amazona violaceus (Gmelin) was near A. 

 imperialis Richmond, but thrusts it back again into the synonymy 

 of Deroptyns accipitrinus; Mr. Eothschild has since resurrected 

 it again, however, and I am still firmly of the opinion that it has 

 nothing whatever to do with Deroptyus, for the reasons I have 

 already given. While Mr. Rothschild agrees with me on this 

 point, I must take strong exception to several of the species of 

 Psittacidae he admits to the West Indian avifauna, and in this I 

 am glad to find myself in agreement with such an eminent authority 

 as Count Salvadori. My views on West Indian Psittacidse remain 

 the same as stated in my previous papers. 



Mr. Rothschild appears to have overlooked my article on the 

 West Indian Parrakeets, for he makes no reference to it in his 

 bibliography nor in the main body of his work, nor does he mention 

 the numerous species which have become extinct on Barbados, 

 and several of the other islands, to which I called attention in my 

 'Birds of the Southern Lesser Antilles' (not mentioned by him) 

 and in my 'Extirpated West Indian Birds.' 



1 Ibis, [8] VI, October, 1906, p. 643. 



2 Ibis, [9] I, April, 1907, p. 365. 



