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61° W. long. It is twenty-nine miles long by sixteen broad, with an area 

 of 292 square miles, and the mountains attain an altitude of nearly 5,000 

 feet. 



Botany. 



Johow, F. Vegetationsbilder aus Westindien : eine Excursion nach 

 dem Kochenden See auf Dominica. ' Kosmos,' ii. 1884, pp. 112-130, 270- 

 285. Abstract in ' Engler's Jahrbiicher,' vii. (1886), ' Literaturbericht,' 

 p. 76. 



Nicholls, H. A. A. Ths Natural Resources of Dominica. Handbook 

 of the "West Indies and British Honduras, Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 

 1886. Vegetation, &c., pp. 120-126. 



Dominica shares with Guadeloupe a comparatively rich flora, and has 

 been almost thoroughly botanised by Dr. Imray, whose collections were 

 elaborated by Grisebach in his Flora of the British West Indies, and sub- 

 sequently by Baron Eggers, who, from time to time, has sent to Kew 

 specimens of about 250 species of flowering plants. The forests are 

 described as extensive, and abounding in valuable timber. Indeed it is 

 stated that only 55,000 acres, out of 186,000, are under cultivation, and 

 that the rest of the land is for the most part covered with virgin forests. 

 So far as Grisebach's data go, Dominica is by far the richest in endemic 

 speciesof all the Lesser Antilles ; yet it is barely half the size of Guade- 

 loupe, immediately to the north, and the nearer Martinique to the south. 

 Twenty-nine species of flowering plants are apparently endemic in 

 Dommica, against two in Martinique and one in Guadeloupe. 



I Zoology. 



Guppy, R. J. L. Notes of a Visit to Dominica. 'P. Sci. Ass. 

 Trinidad.' Part VIII. (1869), pp. 377-392. 



Besides list of Land-shells there is another of ' Organic Remains from 

 the Pliocene Coral Formation of Dominica.' 



Lawrence, G. N. A provisional List of the Birds preserved and 

 noticed by Mr. F. A. Ober in the island of Dominica. ' Forest and 

 Stream,' New York, 1877. 



Lawrence, G. N. Description of new Species of Birds from the 

 island of Dominica. 'Ann. N. Y. Ac' i. 1879, pp. 46-49. 1877. 



3 species. 



Lawrence, G. N. Catalogue of the Birds of Dominica from collections 

 made for the Smithsonian Institute by Fred. A. Ober, together with 

 his Notes and Observations. 'P. U. S. Nat. Mus.' i. (1878), pp. 



56 species. 



Lawrence, G. N. Description of a new species of Parrot of the genus 

 Chrysotis from the island of Dominica. ' P. U. S. Nat. Mus.' iii. (1880), 

 pp. 2-54-257. 



Other birds are mentioned in this. 



Lawrence, G. M". Description of a new species of Bird of the family 

 Turdida? from the island of Dominica, W. 1. ' P. U. S. Nat. Mus.' iii. 

 (1880), p. 16. 



Angas, G. F. On the terrestrial Mollusca of Dominica. Collected 

 during a recent visit to that island. ' P. Z. S.' 1883, pp. 594-597. 

 20 species. 



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