Allen on Birds of Santa Lucia. 165 



Lucia is 40, but as yet no general list of them has been given. The 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology having lately received three con- 

 siderable collections of the birds of this island from Mr. Semper, 

 numbering altogether nearly 350 specimens and adding 16 species 

 not as yet recorded from this locality, I take the present oppor- 

 tunity of giving a connected list of the birds of this island, and 

 of adding a few remarks respecting some of them. I take pleasure 

 in here expressing my thanks to Mr. George N. Lawrence for aid 

 in determining several of the species, and for I'evising many of my 

 identifications. 



The sixteen species marked with a * are newly added; two 

 marked f are given on the authority of Dr. Sclater ; seven others 

 marked % are known only from Santa Lucia. 



J 1. Margarops sanctee-luciae, Sclater, Ibis, 1880, p. 73. = 3/. her- 

 minieri, Scl., P. Z. S., 1871, 268. = M". herminieri var. semperi, 

 Lawr., MS. 



Before the number of the "Ibis" for January, 1880, reached this 

 country, Mr. Lawrence had sent for pubUcation in the Bulletin a descrip- 

 tion of the Santa Lucia Margarops, he bestowing upon this form the name 

 xemperi. As Mr. Lawrence's paper contains a detailed comparison of 

 the Santa Lucia form Avith the true M. herminipri from Guadaloupe, (Dr. 

 Sclater's comparison is with the Dominican form, which Mr. Lawrence 

 has recently separated specifically from M. herminieri under the name 

 M. dominicensis, — see Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1880, 16,) I have his per- 

 mission to give it herewith : — " This [the Santa Lucia form] differs from 

 the typical M. herminieri from Guadaloupe in being of a lighter brown 

 above, with a tawny shade, instead of dark olivaceous ; the difference in 

 the markings of the throat feathers is very decided, in M. herminieri thev 

 having fulvous-white centres, with brown margins, while in the other they 

 are whitish with brown central stripes ; the most striking difference 

 between them is that in the new species the abdomen is pure white, 

 whereas in M. herminieri, with the exception of a small white space on 

 the lower part, the abdomen is covered with conspicuous lanceolate-shaped 

 markings, the centres of the feathers being white with well-defined brown 

 borders ; in the Guadaloupe bird the under surface of the tail feathers is 

 reddish-brown, and the white terminal portions of the under tail-coverts 

 are edged with light brown, while in the bird from Santa Lucia the under 

 surface of the tail feathers is grayish-ash, and the white ends of the tail- 

 coverts are not bordered; the last-named species has the bill dull brownish- 

 yellow, and it is larger than that of M. herminieri, which has the upper 

 mandible dark brown, and the under clear yellow. There are seven 

 examples of the Santa Lucia form, all closely agreeing in plumage ; the 

 sex of none of them is indicated, but probably both sexes are represented." 

 Lawrence, MS. 



