1879.] MR. P. L. SCLATER ON BIRDS FROM MONTSERRAT. 765 



Local Name, as given by Mr. Sturge. Scientific Name. 



1. ■' Thrush " Margarops densirostris. 



2. " Yellow-breasted Sparrow " Certhiola dominicana. 



3. "Sparrow" Phonipara bicolor. 



4. "Kingfisher" Ceryle alcyon. 



5. "Quaker-bird" Coecyzus minor. 



6. "Killie-Hawk" Tinnunculus sparverius. 



7. "CrabGaulin" Ardea herodias. 



8. " White Gaulin " Ardea candiclissima. 



9. " Waterwiteh " Butorides virescens. 



10. " Blue Pigeon " or " Rainier " Columba corensis. 



11. " Mountain-Dove " Zenaida martinicana. 



12. " Partridge Dove " Geotrygon mystacea. 



13. "Coot" Gallinula galeata. 



14. "Diver" Podilynibus podiceps. 



Mr. Sclater observed that all these birds also occurred in the 

 neighbouring islands of Barbuda, Antigua, and Guadeloupe, or one 

 of them, as recorded by Mr. Lawrence in his articles on Mr. Ober's 

 collections from these localities lately published in the ' Proceedings 

 of the United-States National Museum.' At the same time it was 

 highly desirable that further collections should be made in Mont- 

 serrat, where it was quite possible that peculiar species would still 

 be found amongst the Passeres. 



[P.S. Jan. 30th, 1880. — Mr. Sturge has since sent me examples 

 of three other species of birds from Montserrat — namely, Loxiyilla 

 noctis, Elainea martinica, and Puffinus obscurus, — and has kindly 

 promised to continue his collections. — P. L. S.] 



Mr. R. G. Wardlaw Ramsay exhibited a specimen of Pericrocotus 

 flammeus in an abnormal state of plumage, and made the following 

 remarks : — 



'"' I have the pleasure of exhibiting a rather interesting specimen 

 of Pericrocotus Jlammeus, which I obtained some years ago on the 

 Neilgherry Mountains, in Southern India. 



" Briefly speaking, the normal plumage of the adults of this species 

 is red and black in the male, and yellow and grey in the female. The 

 plumage of the young male is much like that of the adult female ; and 

 specimens are to be found in museums exhibiting every stage of the 

 transition from the grey-and-yellow to the black-and-red dress. The 

 peculiarity in this particular specimen, which is a male, is that it has 

 entirely assumed the black plumage of the adult male without any 

 attempt having been made to chauge the yellow into red ; so that we 

 have here a specimen, to all appearances adult, which is partly 

 clothed in the dress of the male and partly in that of the female. 



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