394 Clark, Black Forms of the Genus Ccereba. [oct* 



Formerly not uncommon in the vicinity of Kingstown and the 

 immediate windward district of St. Vincent, but now exceedingly 

 rare, if not actually extinct. 



Black Form. 

 Blackbird. 



Certhiola atrata Lawr., Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci., Vol. I, p. 150 (1878); Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. I, pp. 190, 487 (1878); Lister, Ibis, 1880, p. 

 40; Sal.. & Godm., Biol. Cent. Am., Aves, Vol. I, p. 250 (1883); 

 Ridgw., Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. VIII, pp. 28, 30 (1885); Cory, 

 Auk, Vol. Ill, p. 53 (1886); Ibis, 1886, p. 473; Scl., Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., Vol. XI, p. 47 (1886); Cory, Birds W. I., p. 67 (1889); Rendall, 

 Zoologist, 1897, p. 447; Nicoll, Ibis, 1904, p. 563; [Clark], W. I. 

 Bull., Vol. V, p. 86 [1904]. 



Coereba atrata Cory, Auk, Vol. VIII, p. 40 (1891); Cat. W. I. Birds, pp. 

 17, 116, 134 (1892); Ridgw., Birds No. & Mid. Am., Vol. II, p. 422 

 (1902). Mayn., Cat. Birds W. I., p. 25, No. 245 (1903). 



Abundant all over the island of St. Vincent. 



Coereba wellsi (Cory). Grenadines and Grenada. 

 Normal Form. 1 



Louis d'Or; Sucrier. 



Certhiola sp. Lawr., Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. I, p. 278 (1878). 

 Certhiola atrata (!) Lawr., Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. I, p. 269 (1878). 

 Certhiola saccharina Ridgw., Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. VIII, pp. 28, 



30 (1885); Cory, Auk, Vol. Ill, p. 50 (1886); Scl., Cat. Birds Brit. 



Mus., Vol. XI, p. 42 (1886); Wells & Lawr., Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 



Vol. XI, p. 613 (1886); Cory, Birds W. I., p. 64 (1889); [Clark], 



W. I. Bull., Vol. V, p. 86 [1904] (Grenadines). 

 Coereba saccharina Cory, Cat. W. I. Birds, pp. 17, 116, 134 (1892); Wells, 



Auk, Vol. XIX, p. 348 (1902); Birds Carriacou, Grenada Handb., 



1904, p. 150, No. 69; Ridgw., Birds No. & Mid. Am., Vol. II, p. 415, 



and footnote (1902). 



The normal phase of plumage of C. wellsi is exceedingly rare 

 on Grenada. Mr. Wells, who lived nearly all his life on the island, 



i Certhiola godmani Cory (Auk, Vol. VI, p. 219, 1889) was founded on a specimen 

 of Ccereba luteola (Cab.) taken on Grenada. 



