Blanquilla Island, Venezuela. 121 
I have had much pleasure in naming this bird after 
Sir Frederic Johnstone. 
In E. marchii the black coloration of the under parts 
ceases abruptly at the lower margin of the breast, and this is 
sufficient, without other characters, to distinguish the species 
not only from the Blanquilla bird but from all others of the 
genus. J have examined the very fine series of E. marchii 
from Jamaica, San Domingo, and Barbados, in the British 
Museum, while I have a few examples in my own collection ; 
and this feature is very striking throughout. 
In describing E. sharpii—which, from its locality (Curacao), 
might be thought likely to be similar to the Blanquilla bird— 
Dr. Hartert (¢ Ibis,’ 1893, p.316) says :—“ g. Beneath similar 
to £. bicolor, but the black above confined to the forehead and 
sides of head; back and rump paler, a little more shaded 
with greyish; the black of the breast somewhat less deep 
and duller.” 
In depth of colour the Blanquilla bird approaches nearest 
to specimens from Venezuela, Trinidad, and Margarita 
Island, which birds Dr. Hartert (/. c.) calls H. omissa; but in 
these the colour above is decidedly lighter, the dark blotches 
over the mantle are absent, the head is not so black, the flanks 
are olive-grey instead of black, the under wing-coverts are not 
nearly so dark, and the abdomen and vent tend to have light 
greyish edges. One of my specimens from Margarita Island 
has the “scaling” on the abdomen, while the other has not. 
Speaking of the differences between birds from the Lesser 
Antilles, Tobago, Venezuela, and Margarita Island (E. 
omissa) and birds from the Bahamas (E. bicolor), Mr. Ridgway 
says (B. North & Middle America, i. p. 540) :—‘ Collectively 
they represent a form which may readily be distinguished 
from E.b. bicolor of the Bahamas by the decidedly shorter wing 
and tail and the brighter olive or olive-greenish upper parts.” 
While a series of six males in my collection from St. 
Thomas and St. Kitts agree with this description with respect 
to colour, one specimen from St. Thomas is decidedly darker 
than any I have seen from the Bahamas. On the other hand, in 
an adult male from Inagua (Bahamas), in the British Museum, 
