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mon, and Ortygornis ponticeriana occurs ; for I saw one in a 
cage in the camp of the 5th Punjab Native Infantry. 
(873) Rayncnma capensis (Linn.). 
Captain Cook, V.C. of the 5th Goorkhas, informed me that 
he had shot a Painted Snipe in the month of January near 
Kurrum. 
(893) TrincorpEs HYPoLEeucus (Linn.). 
A few pairs were about the river in May. 
IV.—WNotes upon some West-Indian Birds. 
By P. L. Scuatzr, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S. 
(Plate I.) 
Mr. LawreEncr’s series of papers upon the birds obtained for 
the Smithsonian collection by Mr. F. A. Ober during his 
visits to the islands of Barbuda, Antigua, Guadeloupe, Do- 
minica, Martinique, St. Vincent, and Grenada*, have greatly 
added to our acquaintance with the avifauna of the Lesser 
Antilles. [have on previous occasionst lamented the deficiency 
of our knowledge in this respect, and may offer our American 
brethren our congratulations on their discoveries in a field 
which, seeing that most of the islands belong to the colonial 
possessions of Great Britain, ought to have been occupied by 
us long ago. At the same time, English naturalists have 
done something towards the investigation of the Antillean 
avifauna since I wrote my article in 1871. With the kind 
assistance of the Rev. J. E. Semper, I have been able to give 
some account of the birds of St. Luciat; and Mr. Mister’s 
exertions $ have recently added something to our knowledge 
of the birds of St. Vincent. An examination of the collec- 
tion made by the last-named gentleman, now in the Museum 
of the University of Cambridge, and of some of Mr. Ober’s 
* See Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1878 and 1879. 
+ See ‘ Nature,’ vol. iv. p. 473 (1871). 
} See P. Z. 8. 1871, p. 263, and 1872, p. 647. 
§ See his notes, antea, p. 38. 
