from the West ladies. 565 



not give Grenada as a locality for this species in his ' Birds 

 of the West Indies/ but adds it in his Catalogue of 1892. 

 It was first described from a specimen shot in St. Vincent. 

 There are no examples of this species in the British Museum 

 except those which I have obtained. 



Mimus gilvus (Vieill.). 



Mimus gilvus Cory, B. W. I. p. 34. 



The Mocking-bird is common at Grenada, especially in 

 the Botanical Gardens in the town (St. George's). Its song 

 resembles that of our Blackbird, and, like that species, it 

 usually sings from the top of a tree. 



Tyrannus rostkatus Scl. 



Tyrannus rostratics Cory, B. W. I. p. 129. 



This Tyrant was numerous at Grand Etang. 



Glaucis hirsuta (Gmel.). 



Glaucis hirsuta Cory, B. W. I. p. 142. 



One female. Iris pale red ; bill black above, yellowish 

 below ; tarsi and toes orange. 



This species was only observed at Grand Etang, where I shot 

 a single specimen. I noticed several flying round a house 

 there, and taking insects from the cracks in the wooden walls. 

 In the thick woods I saw others feeding round the trunks 

 of trees, but I did not observe any of them feeding at the 

 flowers. They make a very loud humming Avith their wings, 

 which can be heard at some little distance. 



Coccyzus minor (Gmel.). 



Coccyzus minor Cory, B. W. I. p. 160. 



I think that examples of this species from the southern 

 islands of the Lesser Antilles are larger and darker than 

 those from further north. I have been carefully through 

 the large series in the British Museum, and find that 

 my example is hardly to be distinguished from Coccyzus 

 dominicce (Shelley, Cat. xix. p. 306), as is also the case 

 with an example in the British Museum from Montserrat. 

 Specimens from St. Vincent are apparently intermediate 

 between C. minor and C. maynurdi. 



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