326 ON BIRDS COLLECTED IN DOMINICA. [June 4, 
3. List of Birds collected by Mr. Ramage in Dominica, 
West Indies. By P. L. Scuarer, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., 
Secretary to the Society. 
[Received May 13, 1889.] 
I lay on the table a set of the birds collected, in 1887 and 1888, 
in the island of Dominica, West Indies, by Mr. George A. Ramage, 
the Naturalist employed by the joint Committee of the Royal Society 
and British Association for the investigation of the Fauna and Flora 
of the Lesser Antilles. 
The specimens are 116 in number, and belong to the following 30 
species :— 
*1. Mimocichla ardesiaca (Vieil/.). 
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16. 
Blacicus brunneicapillus, Zawr. 
2. Myiadestes dominicanus, Stejn. 17. Tyrannus rostratus, Sel. 
3. Margarops montanus ( Vieill.). 18. Eulampis jugularis (Zinn.). 
4. Cinclocerthia.ruficauda, Gould. 19. Eulampis holosericeus (Zinn.). 
5. Thryothorus rufescens, Lawr.. 20, Thalurania wagleri (Zess.). 
6. Dendreeca melanoptera, Sharpe. 21. Orthorhynchus exilis (Gm.). 
7. Dendreeca plumbea, Lawr. 22. Coceyzus minor (Gm.). 
8. Setophaga ruticilla (Linm.). 23. Chrysotis bouqueti ( Wag/.). 
9. Vireosylvia calidris (Linn.). 24. Chrysotis augusta, Vigors. 
10. Certhiola dominicana, Taylor. 25. Buteo pennsylvanicus (W2is.). 
11. Saltator guadelupensis, Lafr. 26. Tinnunculus caribbearum (Gm.). 
12. Loxigilla noctis (Linn.). 27. Zenaida martinicana, Bp. 
13. Phonipara bicolor (Linz.). 28. Chamzpelia passerina (Linn.). 
14. Elainea martinica (Linn.). 29. Butorides virescens (Zinz.). 
15, Myiarchus tyrannulus (Diller). «80. Nyctiardea violacea (Linn.). 
The most complete list of the birds of Dominica is that published by 
Mr. G. N. Lawrence in 1878". It contains the names (or synonyms 
of the names) of all the above-mentioned species except two, namely 
Mimocichla ardesiaca and Nyctiardea violacea. As regards the 
latter of these, the species is of wide distribution, and is known to 
occur in others of the Lesser Antilles °; there is no reason therefore 
to remark on its being found also in Dominica. But Mimocichla is, 
I believe, quite a novelty in the Avifauna of the Caribbean group 
of islands. ‘This genus contains four species,and has hitherto been 
supposed to be restricted to the Greater Antilles, M. rubripes and 
M. schistacea being its representatives in Cuba, M. pluméea in the 
Bahamas, and M. ardesiaca in San Domingo and Porto Rico. As 
might have been expected, the Dominican Iimocichla belongs to 
the Porto Rican form. It is, in fact, so nearly similar that I do not 
see sufficient grounds for making it specifically distinct. The only 
difference apparent is the much greater whiteness of the belly in the 
Dominican specimens, whence those who adopt trinomials would, no 
doubt, call it Mimocichla ardesiaca albiventris. Myr. Ramage has 
sent home two male examples of this bird, which were both procured 
at “ Batalie, dry region to leeward,” in March 1889. 
1 “Catalogue of the Birds of Dominica from collections made for the Smith- 
sonian Institution by Fred. A. Ober,” Proc. U.S. N. M. 1878, p. 48. 
? See Cory, Birds of the West Indies (1880), p. 249. 
