460 DEPORT— 1888, 



Bland, T. On the Relations of the Flora and Fauna of Santa Cruz, 

 West Indies. 'Ann. New York. Ac' ii. (1882), pp. 117-126. A discussion 

 in connection with the mollusca living and extinct in St. Croix. 



ST. EUSTATIUS, or ST. EUSTACHE. 



A small island lying between St. Kitts and Saba, in about 63° W. 

 long, and 17° 30' N. lat. It rises in a pyramidal form from the sea to a 

 height of nearly 2,000 feet. 



ST. KITTS, OR ST. CHRISTOPHER'S. 



Situated to the north-west of Antigua, in 17° 20' N. lat. and 62° 45' "W. 

 long., and having an area of sixty-eight square miles. Mount Misery, the 

 highest peak, has an altitude of 4,060 feet. 



Botany. 



'The higher slopes of the mountains are clothed with grass, while their 

 summits are crowned with noyean or iron wood, Spanish ash, red sweet- 

 wood, wild mahoe, snakewood, white box, dogwood, and other forest 

 trees.' — Handbook of the West Indies and British Honduras, Colonial 

 and Indian Exhibition, 1886. 



Zoology. 



Lawrence, G. N. Description of a new sub-species of Loxigilla from 

 the island of St. Christopher, West Indies. 'P. U. S. Nat. Mus.' iv. 

 (1881), p. 204. 



ST. LUCIA. 



One of the most picturesque of the Windward Islands, situated south 

 of Martinique, in 14° N. lat. and 61° W. long. It is forty-two miles long 

 and twenty-one in its greatest breadth, with an area of 243 square miles. 

 The greatest altitude is about 3,300 feet, and here, as in St. Vincent, 

 there is a ' soufRriere,' or sulphur mountain. 



Maria, Gros, and Pigeon are adjacent islets. 



Botany. 



There is no complete accoant of the botany of this island. Grisebach 

 saw very few plants thence, including a solitary endemic species. 



' Report upon the Forests of St. Lucia.' By B. D. Hooper, Indian 

 Forest Department Colonial OfiBice, 1887. 



Zoology. 



Tyler, R. E. Notes on the Serpents of Santa Lucia. ' P. Z. S.' 1849, 

 pp. 100-104. 



4 species. 



Tyler, R. E. On the Iguana of Santa Lucia. ' P. Z. S.' 1850, pp. 

 106-110. 



Description and habits. 



Sclater, P. L. On the Birds of the island of Santa Lucia, West 

 Indies. « P. Z. S.' 1871, pp. 263-272, pi. xxi. 



