on the Genus Coereba. 513 



upper parts are paler still than in January specimens from 

 St. Thomas. 



Except for their paler throat-patches these Virgin Gorda and 

 Anegada specimens come very near to examples of C. neivtoni 

 from the island of St. Croix, and they have the same shade 

 of olive-green in the coloration of the rump. Clnudlach 

 (J. f. Orn. 1878, p. 179) describes nests and eggs of speci- 

 mens from Porto Eico. He says the nests can be found all 

 the year round, but very seldom do they contain eggs or 

 young. He thinks that the nests are often used as sleeping- 

 places. On March 1 5th he found freshly hatched young, and 

 again in the autumn freshly flown young. In December, 

 1903, on the island of St. Thomas, the late Dr. Bowdler 

 Sharpe and I shot birds in first plumage with yellow eye- 

 stripe and grey of throat mottled with yellowish ; the upper 

 parts being hair-brown, with pale edges to wing-feathers and 

 scapulars. 



CCEREBA NEWTONI. 



[Certhiola] newtoni Baird, Am. Nat. vii. 1873, p. 611 

 (St. Croix, Greater Antilles ; Coll. U.S. Nat. Mus.). 



dereba newtoni Ridgway, Birds N. & M. Araer. pt. ii. 

 1902, p. 416. 



Hah. St. Croix, Greater Antilles. 



8 adult specimens in Coll. Brit Mus. 



In this well-marked species the yellow of the breast is a 

 rich yolk-of-egg colour, and the yellow of the rump-patch is 

 distinctly tinged with olive-green. The white wing-patch is 

 quadrate — that is to say, tlie outer webs at the bases of the 

 primaries are not involved in the white coloration. 



I cannot agree with Prof. Baird that the throat is so dark 

 that it does not present any contrast with the black of the 

 cheeks. The coloration of the throat-patch is almost exactly 

 identical with that seen in C. bananivora. It is paler than 

 C.flaveola, and darker than in C. portoricensis. 



The pileum is nearly, if not quite, black ; the mantle 

 smoky black or sooty grey; the secondaries have conspicuous 

 liiiht ed^es. 



