72 Mr. P. L. Sclater on some 
duplicates, which Mr. Lawrence has kindly aided me to 
acquire, has enabled me to make the few notes which I here 
subjoin. 
1. CrncLoceRTHIA RUFICAUDA (Gould). 
Cinclocerthia ruficauda, Scl. et Salv. Ex. Orn. p. 19, t. x. 
Mr. Lister’s skin of this form from St. Vincent does not 
quite agree with the one in my collection, from which the 
figure in ‘ Exotic Ornithology ’ was taken, nor with others 
obtained by Mr. Ober in Dominica. 
The St.-Vincent bird is darker above, especially on the 
head, and of a more greyish tinge below, especially on the 
throat and breast. ‘The bill is -2 inch longer. 
The Dominica form comes nearer in colour to that figured 
in ‘ Exotic Ornithology ;’ but the bill is rather shorter even 
than in the form of St. Vincent, and the tail (in both examples) 
is considerably shorter. 
It is certainly a very singular fact in distribution that the 
birds of this genus in Dominica and St. Vincent should be 
more nearly alike than that of the intermediate island of St. 
Lucia, where the very easily distinguished form, C. macro- 
rhyncha, nobis*, occurs. 
Future writers, who have a better series, may think it 
necessary to separate the St.-Vincent and Dominica birds 
specifically ; but it will be a difficult question to decide which 
is the true Cinclocerthia ruficauda, the locality of the original 
specimen being unknown, and the type not to be found! 
2. MarGaARors HERMINIERI (Lafr.). 
Margarops herminieri, Lawr. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1. p.52 
(Dominica), p. 187 (St. Vincent), p. 851 (Martinique), 
p. 452 (Guadeloupe). 
My skins of this form from St. Lucia, obtained by Mr. 
Semper (P.Z.S. 1874, p. 268), are so different from those 
of Dominica (Oder), that I think it necessary to separate . 
the St.-Lucian bird as a distinct species. Lafresnaye’s 
type of his Turdus herminieri (Rev. Zool. 1844, p. 167) was 
from Guadeloupe. As Mr. Lawrence says nothing on the 
* Ex. Ora. p. 21, pl. xi. 
