146 New Species of Birds from St. Vincent. 



XI V. — Descriptions of Seven New Species of Birds from 

 the Island of St. Vincent, West Indies. 



BY GEORGE N. LAWRENCE. 

 Read May 13th, 1878. 



When Mr. Ober liad completed his investigations in Do- 

 minica, he proceeded to St. Vincent ; but unfortunately, while 

 there, he had two attacks of fever, one early in October, from 

 which he soon recovered, but in December he had a relapse ; 

 by this he was completely prostrated, and it was not until the 

 end of January, that he was convalescent. 



There were also constant rains, and consequently his collect- 

 ing was seriously interfered with. He thinks, however, that 

 the specimens obtained, and the birds observed, complete quite 

 thoroughly the avi-fauna of the island. 



He left for the island of Grenada about the first of March, 

 at which time he forwarded to the Smithsonian, the collection 

 made in St. Vincent. This was received by me about the first 

 of April. There are only 90 specimens, representing 35 

 species ; seven of these I consider new to science, and their de- 

 scriptions are given below. Besides the species sent, he 

 enumerates 24 others, which he either saw, or had named to 

 him as undoubtedly frequenting the island ; making the total 

 number 59. I expect soon to give a complete catalogue of 

 them, together with his notes, which I now have. 



1, Turdus nigrirostris- 



Female. Front, crown, and occiput dark warm brown, each feather of the 

 crown and occiput with a shaft-stripe of dull pale, rufous; upper plumage reddish 

 olivaceous brown, deeper in color on the upper part of the back and on the wing 

 coverts ; the latter have their ends marked with small spots of bright rufous, 

 which possibly may be an evidence of the example not being fully mature ; the 

 tail is of a dark warm brown, the shafts black ; inner webs of quills blackish 

 brown; the outer webs reddish brown, of the same color as the tail feathers; 

 the shafts are glossy black ; under lining of wings clear cinnamon red ; under 

 plumage light brownish ash, with the middle of the abdomen aud the crissum 

 white ; on the upper part of the breast, a few feathers end with dark reddish 



