1870. ] DR. 0. FINSCH ON THE BIRDS OF TRINIDAD. 553 
some interest, as I have compared the specimens received from 
Trinidad with others from different parts of America, especially of 
the neighbouring mainland of Venezuela and Guiana. The total 
number of species recognized as found in Trinidad by Dr. Léotaud 
is 297—a number evidently too low, because Dr. Léotaud apparently 
enumerates only those species met with by himself. If he had had 
an opportunity of consulting other reliable works on South-American 
ornithology besides the few cited by him, he would have found a 
considerable number of species to add to his list. The valuable 
Catalogue of American Birds in the collection of Dr. Sclater (1862) 
contains thirty species from Trinidad not included in Dr. Léotaud’s 
work. Mr. Taylor notices thirteen species more, and I myself am 
able to add ten additional species; so that the total number of 
species now amounts to about 350. Further investigations will most 
probably increase this number; for Trinidad, situated close to the 
mainland, and being “nothing more or less than a bit of Venezuela,” 
as Dr. Sclater very aptly remarks, undoubtedly becomes visited 
accidentally by many birds proper to the continent, besides a portion 
of stragglers from the northern parts during the winter season. 
The only species peculiar to the avifauna of Trinidad seems to be 
Psittacula cingulata. 
The collection received by Mr. Kohlmann contains 115 species, 
of which the following are new to Trinidad :—Heleodytes minor, 
Myiozetetes inornatus, Sturnella hippocrepis, Pseudoleistes mela- 
nicterus, Icterus vulgaris, Cardinalis pheeniceus, Sycalis brasiliensis, 
Ramphastos erythrorhynchus, Pteroglossus aragari, and Brotogerys 
tuipara. 
The Catalogue of Dr. Sclater contains the following species marked 
with Trinidad :— 
Sclater, Cat. 
page 
Mimus melanopterus, Lawr. .......+. Ko wtoslece 9 
ET EsCOMY LES GTISCUS (SW) oie cic ais se a 0\e » & slo, o0/eie 16 
Thryothorus rufalousy Datta seat. 2 none ae cs. ole 20 
Anthars: breviunguis, SPIX ws. css siee nes ees see 24 
Euphona flavifrons (Lath.) 2... 2... ceecsseees ree 
Sy iate copana (Ui yout ine ad cekiie sede G2 ve eid OO 
ilonagra glaucocolpas, Oa... 4. dedes cs cae cee 79 
Arremon silens, Bp. .....-0ececeeee aLdeitiieetns eit 
Orchesticus ater (Gml.) ...... LA Ms Ae Re A 98 
Emberizoides macrourus (Gml.) .......0- 2 cere ee 118 
Chrysomitris cucullata (Sw.) ......eeee.+ec0e.- 123 
Sycalis calumatanas Cary. tare sews) ev clletne pte et 126 
Teterus auricapillus, Cass. 4 cic etsis's nosees este Sm nical 132 
Sturnella meridionalis, Scl. ........ee0e08 cree ee 139 
Synallaxis albescens, Temm.........02 0 ede creel LOU 
Phacellodomus frontalis (Licht.)........ 000.055 154 
Picolaptes squamatus (Licht.).........00.+2++00 166 
Pyriglena maculicaudis, Sel... . 2... .226 0s sess cess 185 
Ee OUR TU PIPENIIN) VA reat soy > «a v0.0, a9 x00 » 0:00 2 
Pyrocephalus rubineus (Bodd.) ....eeceee eee ae 227 
