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and also 1 6 blacks from St. Vincent. If the black specimens from 

 Grenada were put with the normals which are almost certainly 

 nothing but a recessive form of the same bird, the variation would 

 strike the eye on even a superficial glance at the drawer. But 

 following the notions so naively expressed in the passage quoted 

 above from W. N. Lawrence, the blacks from Grenada are put 

 apart together with the other blacks from St. Vincent, though 

 two of them were shot on the same date as one of the normals. 



