ON THE ZOOLOGY AND BOTANY OF THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS. 461 



20 species, and a valuable summary of the work that had been done 

 at the avifauna of the Lesser Antilles up to that date. _ 



Semper J. E Observations on the Birds of St. Lucia, with notes by 

 P. L. Sclater. ' P. Z. S.' 1872, pp. 647-653. 



6 species added to the former list. „ d t • 



Sclater, P. L. On some additional species of birds from Santa Lucia, 

 West Indies. ' P. Z. S.' 1876, pp. 13, 14, pi. ii. 



8 additional species, including a new genus and 2 new species. 



Allen, J. A. On the Birds of Santa Lucia, West Indies. ' Bull. JSntt. 

 Orn. Club.' V. (1880), pp. 163-169. 



Adds 16 species to the list. ,t,- ,,a\ ■ 



Sclater, P. L. Notes upon some West Indian Birds. ibis (4;, iv. 

 (1880), pp. 71-75. Plate I. 



One new species from Santa Lucia. 



RidffWay R Description of a new Warbler from the island ot banta 

 Lucia, West Indies. ' P. U. S. Nat. Mus.' v. (1882), pp. 525, 526. 



Cory, C. B. Description of a new species of Rhamphocinclus from 

 St. Lucia. " ' Auk; iv. (1887), p. 94. 



ST. MARTIN. 



To the south of AnguiUa, in 18° 4' N. lat. and 63° 5' W. long., and 

 having an area of thirty square miles and an elevation of nearly 

 2 000 feet.— Tintamarre is an islet on the north-east side of St. Martin, 



ST. THOMAS (SEE VIRGIN ISLANDS). 



ST. VINCENT. 



This island is in 13° 10' N. lat. and 60° 57' W. long., and is about 

 eighteen miles long by eleven broad, with an area of 140 square miles. 

 Surface mainly undulating and suitable for cultivation ; but the extinct 

 volcano, called the Souffriere, in the north, rises to a height ot d,70U 

 feet, and the Morne a Garou to 4,000 feet. The road to the Souffi-iere 

 is described as being embroidered with flowers, such as begonias and 

 orchids, and groves of magnificent tree-ferns abound. 



Botany. 



Guilding Lansdown. An account of the Botanic Garden in the 

 island of St. Vincent, Glasgow, 1825. 4to, pp. 47, with three coloured 



views in the garden and a plan. t, -r. r^ ,t tt c 4.1 



Keport upon the Forests of St. Vincent. By E. D. M. Hooper, of the 

 Indian Forest Department, Colonial Office, 1886. 



Jacquin collected in St. Vincent, and the Rev. Lansdown GmWmg 

 made considerable collections of dried plants between 1820 and 18.30 and 

 transmitted them to Sir William Hooker; but as he was a zoologist 

 rather than a botanist, it is probable that he did not exhaust the flora 



Grisebach describes twelve endemic plants, a larger number than 

 known to him from all the rest of the chain of islands, excluding Dominica, 



from Tobago to Antigua. ^ . , j- xi u i. • 



Guilding's history of the foundation (1765) and progress of the botanic 

 garden of St. Vincent is an interesting and valuable record. It was here 



