328 TIMEHRI. 
Several pairs of Old Witches have quite recently been 
taken to Antigua by Mr, F. E. WARNEFORD with the 
view of checking a plague of ticks infesting his cattle. 
When last heard of the birds were quite at home, flying 
about his farm; it is therefore not unlikely that they 
may soon become naturalized in the Island. 
The distribution of the Cewrebzne Genus Certhiola 
is also rather remarkable, nearly all of the species being 
peculiar to the country in which they are found. Thus 
Certhiola sancti-thome is confined to the Island of St. 
Thomas, C. Jartholomica to St. Bartholomew and C. 
portoricensis to Porto Rico. A very handsome species 
commonly known as the “ Yellow-breast Sparrow” occurs 
in Anguilla and may be peculiar to that Island. The 
British Guiana form Certhzola chloropyga is a very ugly 
and dull plumaged bird. 
Mr. QUELCH has lately contributed to this Journal an 
exhaustive paper on the migratory birds, so that nothing 
remains to be noted on that interesting subjeét, but I may 
here embrace the opportunity of recording that the little 
Golden Warbler, Dendreca estiva, which seems to be 
only a migrant here, breeds regularly in Anguilla, where 
it is known as the wild or bastard Canary. The nest, 
which resembles that of a very large humming-bird, is 
usually placed between the forked branch of a low shrub 
and is composed of fine grass mixed with vegetable down. 
The eggs are white, freckled with brown. 
In the foregoing notes many of our remarkable birds 
remain unnoticed, but some idea may be gathered from 
what has been said of the highly interesting nature and 
splendour of the Neotropical Avifauna. 
