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lent article*, by the veteran ornithologist Prof. Sundevall, on the 

 birds of this island, founded on a collection made by Dr. A. von Goes. 

 The species enumerated are forty-seven in number, amongst which 

 the most interesting, perhaps, is the Euphonia Jlavifrons, originally 

 obtained, along with one or two other species, in the latter .part 

 of the last century, and figured by Sparrman in his ' Museum 

 Carlsonianum,' along with several other species from the same 

 island. 



4. Barbuda. — Of this British island I believe I am correct in 

 saying that nothing whatever is known of its ornithology, or of any 

 other branch of its natural history. 



5. St. Christopher and Nevis, to which may be added the adja- 

 cent smaller islands St. Eustathius and Saba. — Of these islands also 

 our ornithological knowledge is of the most fragmentary description. 

 Mr. T. J. Cottle was, I believe, formerly resident in Nevis, and sent 

 a few birds thence to the British Museum in 1839. Amongst these 

 were the specimens of the Humming-birds of that island, which are 

 mentioned by Mr. Gould in his well-known work. Of the remainder 

 of this group of islands we know absolutely nothing. 



6. Antigua. — Of this fine British island, I regret to say, nothing 

 whatever is known as regards its ornithology. Amongst the many 

 thousands of American birds that have come under my notice during 

 the past twenty years, I have never seen a single skin from Antigua. 



7. Montserrat. — Exactly the same as the foregoing is the case 

 with the British island of Montserrat. 



8. Guadeloupe, Deseadea, and Marie- gal ante. — An excellent 

 French naturalist, Dr. l'Herminier, was for many years resident as 

 physician in the island of Guadeloupe. Unfortunately, Dr. l'Her- 

 minier never carried into execution the plan which I believe he con- 

 templated, of publishing an account of the birds of that island. He 

 sent, however, a certain number of specimens to Paris and to the late 

 Baron de la Fresnaye, to whom we are indebted for the only article 

 ever published on the birds of Guadeloupe t, or of the adjacent 

 islands. 



9. Dominica. — Dominica is one of the few of the Caribbean islands 

 that has had the advantage of a visit from an active English ornitho- 

 logist. Although Mr. E. C. Taylor only passed a fortnight in this 

 island in 1863, and had many other matters to attend to, he never- 

 theless contrived to preserve specimens of many birds of very great 

 interest, of which he has given us an account in one of his articles 

 on the birds of the West Indies, published in 'The Ibis' for 1864 

 (p. 157). It cannot be supposed, however, that the birds of this 

 wild and beautiful island can have been exhausted in so short a space 

 of time, even by the energetic efforts of our well-known fellow- 

 labourer. This Society have also upon one occasion received a va- 

 luable present from Dominica, in the shape of the splendid Parrot 



* " Foglame pa on S. Bartheleiuy, efter de af Dr. A. von Goes kemsanda saui- 

 lingarna bestamde;" af Carl J. Sundevall ((Efversigt af Kongl. Vetenshaps- 

 Akademiens Forhandlingar, 1860, p. 579). 



t Rev. Zool. ISM, p. 167. 



