7A.2 Chapman Nevj Birds from Trinidad. T Oct 



ary 5, 1891, in the hills back of Priestman's River, at an altitude of 1500 

 feet above the sea, these birds were not at all uncommon, but were shy 

 and difficult to obtain. They were well known to the people living in the 

 vicinity, who call them •Nightingales,' and who say they live here the year 

 around and breed. This is the only point where I found these birds, and 

 during my stay I procured but three individuals though many were seen 

 and heard. 



210. Merula aurantia ( Gmel. ). Hopping-dick. Two-penny-chick. 

 — This species, closely allied to the following one, is found at lower levels, 

 in fact down to the sea, in thick, woody places. I frequently heard, but very 

 rarely saw this Thrush, and only secured a few examples. It is said to 

 have been formerly very common, and is doubtless one of the species which 

 has suffered by the introduction of the mongoose. For a description of the 

 breeding habits see Gosse, Birds of Jamaica, p. 14. 



211. Merula jamaicensis (G/iiel.). Shine-eye. Glass-eye. — Rather 

 common in the thick woods above fifteen hundred feet, but very shy and 

 difficult to collect, frequenting very thick jungles, and often heard, but 

 seldom seen. 



212. Turdus mustelinus Gmel. Wood Thrush. — Not observed. 

 Recorded by Gosse, Birds of Jamaica, p. 140. 



PRELIMINARY DESCRIPTIONS OF ONE NEW SPE- 

 CIES AND TWO NEW SUBSPECIES OF BIRDS 

 FROM THE ISLAND OF TRINIDAD. 



BY FRANK M. CHAPMAN. 



The publication of a paper on the birds of the Island of Trini- 

 dad, based on collections and observations made during March 

 and April of the present year, being unavoidably delayed, I have 

 decided to present here brief diagnoses of several new birds which 

 will be described at length in a future number of the Bulletin of 

 the American Museum of Natural History. 



Chlorospingus leotaudi * sp. nov. 



Char. sp. — Apparently most like C. chrysogaster Tacz. in coloration 

 but much smaller and with a larger bill. 



1 Named in honor of the late Dr. A. Leotaud, author of 'Oiseaux de l'lle de la 

 Trinidad.' 



