﻿Aruba, 
  Curaqao, 
  and 
  Bonaire. 
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  (3) 
  The 
  distribution 
  of 
  the 
  two 
  forms, 
  E. 
  bicolor 
  and 
  

   E. 
  marchi, 
  as 
  given 
  by 
  Dr. 
  Sharpe 
  cannot 
  be 
  maintained. 
  

   There 
  is 
  no 
  doubt 
  that 
  the 
  Greater 
  Antilles, 
  Jamaica, 
  San 
  

   Domingo 
  (and 
  Porto 
  Rico 
  ?) 
  are 
  inhabited 
  by 
  E. 
  marchi, 
  

   but 
  Dr. 
  Sharpe 
  was 
  misled 
  by 
  insufficient 
  materials 
  into 
  

   including 
  St. 
  Thomas 
  in 
  its 
  range. 
  I 
  have 
  shot 
  several 
  

   males 
  on 
  St. 
  Thomas, 
  which 
  clearly 
  show 
  that 
  this 
  island 
  is 
  

   tenanted 
  by 
  E. 
  bicolor 
  proper, 
  the 
  same 
  as 
  the 
  Bahaman 
  form, 
  

   which 
  is 
  the 
  typical 
  one. 
  Dr. 
  Sharpe 
  now 
  agrees 
  with 
  me 
  

   that 
  the 
  bird 
  from 
  St. 
  Thomas 
  is 
  E. 
  bicolor, 
  and 
  not 
  E. 
  marchi 
  ; 
  

   he 
  further 
  writes 
  me 
  that 
  the 
  only 
  male 
  from 
  Santa 
  Lucia 
  in 
  

   the 
  British 
  Museum 
  is 
  a 
  badly 
  made-up 
  skin 
  and 
  difficult 
  

   to 
  determine, 
  although 
  it 
  looks 
  somewhat 
  like 
  E. 
  marchi. 
  

   The 
  Barbadian 
  bird, 
  singularly 
  enough, 
  is, 
  in 
  Dr. 
  Sharpens 
  

   opinion, 
  E. 
  marchi, 
  while 
  the 
  other 
  islands 
  of 
  the 
  Lesser 
  

   Antilles 
  are 
  inhabited 
  by 
  E. 
  bicolor. 
  This 
  seems 
  very 
  curious, 
  

   but 
  the 
  outlying 
  island 
  of 
  Barbados 
  differs 
  geologically 
  

   and 
  zoologically 
  in 
  many 
  respects 
  from 
  the 
  Lesser 
  Antilles 
  

   {of. 
  Feilden, 
  Ibis, 
  1889, 
  p. 
  478) 
  ; 
  therefore 
  it 
  is 
  not 
  very 
  re- 
  

   markable 
  that 
  Barbados 
  should 
  have 
  a 
  different 
  form 
  of 
  

   Euetheia, 
  but 
  possibly 
  additional 
  materials 
  might 
  show 
  that 
  

   it 
  is 
  not 
  the 
  same 
  as 
  E. 
  marchi 
  — 
  unless 
  it 
  has 
  been 
  intro- 
  

   duced, 
  which 
  is 
  not 
  likely, 
  as 
  it 
  is 
  so 
  common 
  on 
  that 
  

   island. 
  

  

  (3) 
  A 
  series 
  of 
  skins 
  from 
  Aruba, 
  Curasao, 
  and 
  Bonaire 
  

   belongs 
  to 
  neither 
  of 
  these 
  two 
  forms. 
  Berlepsch 
  (J. 
  f. 
  O. 
  

   1892, 
  p. 
  81) 
  first 
  pointed 
  out 
  the 
  differences 
  of 
  this 
  new 
  

   form, 
  but 
  having 
  received 
  only 
  one 
  male 
  he 
  did 
  not 
  know 
  

   whether 
  these 
  differences 
  were 
  constant 
  or 
  not. 
  I 
  have 
  named 
  

   it 
  E. 
  sharpei, 
  in 
  honour 
  of 
  Dr. 
  Sharpe 
  and 
  his 
  work 
  on 
  the 
  

   Fringillidse. 
  

  

  (4) 
  The 
  birds 
  from 
  Venezuela 
  and 
  Tobago 
  are 
  similar 
  

   inter 
  se, 
  but 
  differ 
  slightly 
  from 
  the 
  Bahaman 
  form, 
  to 
  which 
  

   they 
  are 
  most 
  nearly 
  allied. 
  These 
  therefore 
  must 
  stand 
  as 
  

  

  JrE. 
  omissa 
  (Jardine) 
  (type 
  ex 
  Tobago). 
  

  

  (5) 
  It 
  might, 
  on 
  account 
  of 
  the 
  close 
  relationship 
  of 
  these 
  

   forms, 
  the 
  not 
  yet 
  sufficiently 
  defined 
  distribution 
  of 
  them, 
  

   and 
  the 
  possibility 
  of 
  the 
  occurrence 
  of 
  intermediate 
  forms. 
  

  

  