51 S ]\lr. P. R. lo^e — Ol/nrrvafioiiK 



The wiugs of two males of tins very peculiar species both 

 measured 68 mm. ; bills 14 mm. lu this species, therefore, 

 and in some examples from the Bahamas we get the largest 

 wing-measurements met with in the genus. The yellow 

 coloration of the underparts is produced posteriorly as in 

 C. sharpii and C. caboti, but is of a clearer lemon-yellow. 



The outermost rectriccs, as regards the arrangement of 

 the white coloration, conform to the Antillean type (cf. C. 

 cahoti). 



The greyish-white throat-patch does not extend so far 

 down on to the thorax as in (\ hnhamensi<i. 



CCEREBA BARTOLEMICA. 



Certhia hartolemica Sparrman, ]\lus. Carls, fasc. ii. 1788, 

 pi. 57 (St. Bartholomew). 



Cwreba hartolemica Ridgw. Birds N. & ^M. Amer. pt. ii, 

 1902, p. 419 (Islands of St. Bartholomew, St. Eustatius, 

 Angnilla, and Saba; Lesser Antilles). 



Certhiola hartolemica Sclater, Cat. Birds, vol. xi. p. 42 

 (Island of St. Bartholomew); P.Z.S. 1892, p. 499 (Angnilla). 



Hah. St. Bartholomew, St. ^lartins, Anguilla, and Saba 

 Islands ( Lesser Antilles) ; also ? Antigua, ? Barbuda, and 

 ? St. Eustatius Islands (Lesser Antilles). 



9 adult specimens. Coll. Brit. Mus. 



11 ditto (Barbuda and Antigua). Coll. Rothschild. 



Owing to lack of material, our knowledge of the distribu- 

 tion of this species is involved in a good deal of doubt. 

 Sparmann described his bird '' ex ins. St. Bartholeme com- 

 municavit D:nus Eahlberg." Unfortunately this was an 

 immature specimen, to which his description and plate bear 

 obvious testimony. In his plate this young bird is drawn 

 without any indication of a wing-spot and with the yellow 

 superciliary stripe extending forward to the frontal region 

 over and beyond the eye. There is no indication of a frontal 

 band of white. In his description there is also no mention 

 of a unng-spot, a character upon which stress has been laid 

 as one of the distinguishing characteristics of this species. 



I have never seen an exami)lo from St. Bartholomew 



