1871.] MR. P. L. SCLATER ON THE BIRDS OF SANTA LUCIA. 2/1 



the latter, having the lower back, belly, and crissum yellow, but of 

 an orange (not sulphur) yellow. This yellow colour is also much 

 wider both above and below, and embraces the upper tail-coverts, 

 which in I. portoricensis are black. 



Lieut. Tyler appears to have figured this bird in his drawings 

 (fig. 6) as the " Carouge, male;" whilst his " Carouge, female" 

 (fig. 15) is much more like Icterus bonana of Martinique, which 

 may probably also occur in Santa Lucia. 



13. Quiscalus lugubris, Sw. ; Scl. C. A. B. p. 141. "Merle," 

 indig. 



Quiscalus barita, Taylor, Ibis, 1864, p. 168. 



Apparently undistinguishable from skins in my collection from 

 Trinidad, Cayenne, and Guiana. The bill is slightly more curved 

 on the culmen, but not long enough for Q. inflexirostris, Sw. (An. 

 in Men. p. 300). I have exactly similar skins from Martinique, the 

 male being one of Mr. Taylor's specimens, determined by him as 

 Q. barita. But Mr. Cassin has recently shown* that the Gracula 

 barita of Linnaeus must be referred to the Jamaican species usually 

 called Q. crassirostris, Sw. 



14. Elainea martinica (Linn.). 



Tyrannula martinica, Cassin, Pr. Ac. Sc. Phil. 1860, p. 3/5. 

 Elainea martinica, Taylor, Ibis, 1864, p. 169. 



Two skins of an Elainea sent by Mr. Semper are, no doubt, of 

 this species, as identified by Mr. Cassin, I. s. c. As far as I can tell 

 from the present specimens, they are likewise undistinguishable from 

 my E. riisii of St. Thomas (Cat. A. B. p. 217). 



A further question arises, as I have already pointed out (P. Z. S. 

 1870, p. 834), whether this Antillean species is really separable from 

 E. payana of the continent. This I am not able at present to de- 

 termine satisfactorily. 



15. Myiobius latirostris, Verreaux, Nouv. Arch. d. Mus. ii 

 Bull. p. 22, t. 3. f. 2 (1866). 



Two skins of this little Tyrant-bird, which M. Jules Verreaux has 

 recently described from specimens transmitted to the Museum of 

 Paris by Bonnecourt. 



Its nearest ally is Myiobius phceocercus {Mitrephorus phceocercus 

 of my Cat. A. B. p. 228), which it greatly resembles in general 

 colour. But it has a much broader bill, and no bars on the wings. 



In Santa Lucia this bird is called the Gobemouche Solitaire. The 

 iris is marked " brown ;" and the legs in the living bird dark green. 



16. Myiarchus erythrocercus, Sclat. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1868 

 p. 631. 



I have long had a skin of this bird from Dominica, collected by 

 * Pr. Acad. Phil. 1866, p. 405. 



