2/2 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON THE BIRDS OF SANTA LUCIA. [Mar. 21, 



Mr. Taylor*, and have given it a MS. name. But after carefully 

 recomparing it with my series of M. erythrocercus, I cannot find 

 sufficient grounds for separating it. The Santa Lucia skins are ra- 

 ther larger than that from Dominica, and have the rufous portion of 

 the inner webs of the rectrices still wider. 



Mr. Semper gives the vernacular name of this species as the 

 "Pipperie Gran-bois." 



17. Tyrannus rostratus, Sclater, Ibis, 1864, p. 87. 



This Tyrant-bird, which is allied to T. griseus (sive dominicensis) 

 of the Larger Antilles, but remarkable for its large bill, was originally 

 described by me in a note to one of Mr. Taylor's papers on West- 

 Indian birds in 'The Ibis' for 1864. Mr. Taylor's specimen being, 

 as he has stated, from Trinidad, I came to the conclusion that the 

 example in my collection might really be from Cayenne, as I had 

 always supposed from the style of preparation. But I have more 

 recently ascertained that an exactly similar preparation is found in 

 some skins from Martinique, and therefore think it more likely that 

 my example of T. rostratus may have been obtained there. If such 

 is the case, I think it is just possible that Mr. Taylor may have 

 made an error in the locality of his skin, and may have collected it 

 in Martinique or Dominica (which he also visited), and not in 

 Trinidad. 



In Santa Lucia Mr. Semper tells us Tyrannus rostratus is called 

 "Pipperie" — a usual name for the larger Tyranni, I believe, in the 

 French colonies. 



18. Eulampis jugularis (Linn.) ; Gould, Mon. ii. pi. 82. 

 " Bronze-winged Humming-bird" indig. 



Mr. Gould gives "Nevis" as the only certain locality of this 

 Humming-bird. Mr. Taylor obtained it in Dominica and Marti- 

 nique (Ibis, 1864, p. 169). We have now examples from St. Lucia. 



19. Eulampis holosericeus (Linn.); Gould, Mon. ii. pi. 83. 

 " Emerald Humming-bird," indig. 



I have also skins of this species from St. Croix {Newton), Domi- 

 nica {Taylor), and Martinique. I cannot quite appreciate the di- 

 stinctness of Mr. Gould's E. chlorolcemus, from some unknown island, 

 though Mr. Gould has kindly done his best to make me realize it. 



20. Orthorhynchus ornatus, Gould, Mon. iv. pi. 206. 

 " Gold-headed Humming-bird," indig. 



Mr. Semper's skins agree with one in my collection obtained by 

 Mr. Taylor in Martinique, which has been referred to O. e.rilis 

 (Ibis, 1864, p. 170). But Mr. Gould now pronounces both the 

 Santa Lucia and Martinique skins to belong to his O. ornatus, which 

 is thus geographically as well as structurally intermediate between 

 O. cristatus of Barbadoes and St. Vincent and O. exilis of the Virgin 

 Islands and Nevis. 



* Vf. Ibis, 1864, p. 169. 



