18/1.] MR. P. L. SCLATER ON THE BIRDS OF SANTA LUCIA. 267 



Lieut. Tyler's name. Supposed scientific name. Page 



12. Kossignol Thryothorus martinicensit* 5 



[ 13. Grosbeak Saltator martinicensis 6 



14. Grivotte Margarops montanus 6 



15. Carouge (femelle) Icterus banana 6 



16. Trembler Cinclocerthia macrorhyncha 6 



17. Pere noir Loxigilla noctis 7 



18. Sucrier Certhiola martinicana 7 



19. Perdrix croissant Geotrygon mystacea 8 



12. St. Vincent. — St. Vincent was formerly the residence of an 

 energetic and most observant naturalist, the Rev. Lansdown Guild- 

 ing, F.L.S., well-known to the first founders of this Society, who, 

 however, unfortunately died at an early age in this island without 

 having carried out his plans for a fauna of the West Indiesf. 



Mr. Guilding paid most attention to the invertebrate animals ; but 

 his collections contained a certain number of birds, amongst which 

 was a new Parrot, described after his decease by Mr. Vigors as Psit- 

 tacus guildingii, and probably a native of St. Vincent. 



13. Grenada and the Grenadines. — Of the special ornithology of 

 this group nothing is known. 



14. Barbados. — The sole authority upon the birds of Barbados is 

 Sir R. Schomburgk's well-known work on that island £. This con- 

 tains (p. 681) a list of the birds met with, accompanied by some few 

 remarks. It does not, however, appear that birds attracted much 

 of the author's attention ; and more copious notes would be highly 

 desirable. 



Although Tobago and Trinidad are geographically reckoned in 

 the windward division of the Lesser Antilles, they have zoologically, 

 I believe, nothing whatever to do, with them. Both have been 

 peopled with life from the adjacent mainland ; or if in the case of 

 Tobago this was not originally the case, it has been overrun with 

 continental species, and, as well as Trinidad, now presents few, if 

 any, traces of Antillean forms. Of the ornithology of both of these 

 islands we have excellent accounts — of that of Tobago by Sir William 

 Jardine §, from the collections of Mr. Kirk, and of that of Trinidad 

 more recently from the pens of Dr. Leotaud|| and Dr. Finsch^]". 



Having thus summed up how much, or rather how little we yet 

 know of the ornithology of the Lesser Antilles individually, I pro- 

 ceed to give an account of the collection of birds of Santa Lucia, for 

 which, as above mentioned, I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. 

 Des Vceux. 



This collection contains examples of the following twenty-five spe- 

 cies, amongst which is one that appears to have been hitherto unde- 

 scribed. 



* Sclater, P. Z. S. 18G6, p. 320. 



t See his sketch of his plans, Zool. Journ. ii. p. 437. He died in 1832. 

 t History of Barbados : London, 1847. 

 § Annals of Nat. Hist. vols, xviii., xix., xx. (1846-47). 

 |j Oiseaux de l'ile de la Trinidad : Port of Spain, 1866. 

 1[ See Proc. Zool. Soc. 1870, p. 552. 



