Vol. XXII 

 1905 



Clark, Extirpated West Indian Birds. 262 



Ligon says: "The next is a bird like a Thrush, of a melan- 

 choly look, her feathers never smooth, but always ruffled, as if she 

 were mewing, her head down, her shoulders up, as if her neck 

 were broke. This bird has for three or four notes, the loudest 

 and sweetest that I ever heard ; if she had variety, certainly no 

 bird would go by her ; she looks always as if she were sick or 

 melancholy." 



Hughes writes : " We have Two species of Thrush in this 

 Island." One "is a solitary Bird, and is known by the name of 

 the Quaking Thrush." 



Schomburgk gives " Tardus jamaicensis " in his list, calling it 

 the " Quaking Thrush." 



The members of the genus Cindocerthia all have a peculiar 

 habit of occasionally shivering or shaking, as if afflicted with ague, 

 which has given them the name of " Trembleur " in all the 

 islands where they are found at the present time. This habit 

 is not shared by any other Lesser Antillean genus, so we appear 

 to be justified in referring the " Thrushes " of the authors men- 

 tioned to Cindocerthia. I interpret Ligon : s statement that the 

 bird always appears " sick or melancholy " to have reference to 

 this peculiarity also, a comparison between the shivering of the 

 bird and the shaking of a person ill with a tropical fever. 



At the present time, Cindocerthia occurs on all the islands from 

 Guadeloupe south to St. Vincent, as well as on some of the more 

 northern Lesser Antilles. It was probably driven from Barbados 

 by the deforestation of that island. 



Allenia (? albiventris Later.). 



" Wren." 



Wren Ligon, Hist. Barbados, p. 60 (1673). Hughes, Nat. Hist. Barba- 

 dos, p. 73 (1750). 



Roytelct Ligon, Hist. Barbades, p. 101 (1674). 



Ligon says : " Another there is, not unlike a Wren, but big as a 

 Thrush ; and this is as merry and jolly as the other ^Cindocerthia] 

 is sad ; and as she sits on a stick, jets, and lifts up her train [tail], 

 looking with so earnest and merry a contenance, as if she would 



