558 Mr. J. H. Gumey's Notes on 



these markings being mucli broader and of a more gnttate 

 form. 



In ' The Ibis ' for 1859, at p. 63, an account was given by 

 Messrs. A. and E. Newton, of the Kestrel inhabiting the 

 island of St. Croix, with a figure of its egg at plate xii. fig. 7 

 of the same volume; I have had the advantage of examining 

 two males from St. Croix, and two females, one pair being 

 the gift of Messrs. Newton to the Cambridge and the other 

 to the Norwich Museum, 



Both these males are remarkable for the large size of the 

 black spots with which the grey lesser and median wing- 

 coverts are interspersed, and still more so for many of the 

 feathers, at the point of which these black spots are situated, 

 showing a smaller rufous spot immediately behind the black 

 one. The Cambridge male shows from three to five conspi- 

 cuous black spots on the edge of the outer web of each 

 rectrice, and corresponding spots, but in most of the feathers 

 less numerous, on the edge of the inner web ; these spots in- 

 crease in size as they approach the black subterminal band. 

 In the Norwich male, which is probably an older bird, these 

 spots are smaller and less numerous, especially on the central 

 pair of rectrices and on the pair next adjoining them. In 

 both these males, but especially in the Cambridge specimen, 

 the black spots on the flanks are somewhat broader than in 

 T. sjmrverius ', both specimens show broad and bar-shaped 

 spots on the back, these being somewhat more profuse than 

 in most old males of T. sparverius, which, with the exception 

 of the peculiarities just mentioned, they otherwise resemble. 

 Both the St. -Croix females agree in markings and coloration 

 with the Montserrat female to which I have already referred. 



Mr. Lawrence has recorded the occurrence of T. antillarum, 

 but without any description of the specimens obtained, in the 

 islands of Antigua, Barbuda, Martinique, and Grenada, in 

 his valuable catalogues of the birds collected in those islands 

 by Mr. Ober. I have seen no specimens from any of these 

 localities ; but by the kindness of Messrs. Salvin and Godman, 

 I have been able to examine the following examples in their 

 collection in addition to those which I have already men- 



