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Another specimen, marked male, and of quite different colors, I have no 

 doubt is the young of this species; though Mr. Ober in his notes says of it, 

 (No. 428): " The quickest to respond to my call on the Souffriere, was this 

 little bird. It seems an associate of the preceding species (L. JBishopi), though 

 I never saw them closely together; yet in general shape and habits, especially 

 in search for insects, they resembled one another. As I have got both male 

 and female of the other, it precludes the possibility of its being the adult 

 of the former. That there may be no doubt, I have preserved one in rum." 



The color of this specimen (No. 42S), is of a dark olive-brown above, lighter 

 below, and where the white markings are in the adult, it is of a pale dull 

 rufous; on the throat showing some white, and around the eye partially white ; 

 the marks on the ends of the tail-feathers are precisely as in the black speci- 

 mens; the quills are dark brown; the tail-feathers arc black. But what I con- 

 sider conclusive evidence of its being the young of L. Bisltopi is, that on the 

 crown the black feathers are beginning to appear. Had it not been marked as 

 a male, I should have taken it for the female of this species. But according to 

 Mr. Ober, the sexes are alike. 



Types in National Museum, Washington. 



Remarks. This is a remarkable species, and at first I was at 

 a loss where to place it properly ; I determined it to be a Sylvico- 

 line form, yet unlike any of that family in coloration. On com- 

 paring it with the description and plate of Leucopeza Semperi, 

 Mr. Sclater's new form from St. Lucia (P. Z. S., 1876, p 14), 

 1 determined it to be a second species of that peculiar genus, 

 and, like that species, having long and light-colored tarsi. 



Mr. Ober recjuested that I would bestow the name of our 

 friend Mr. Nathaniel H. Bishop on some West India bird of 

 his procuring, if the opportunity offered ; and it gives me 

 much pleasure to connect his name with so remarkable a 

 species. Mr. Bishop has had much experience in West Indian 

 exploration, and it was in a great measure due to his influence 

 and representations, that Mr. Ober's visit to these islands was 

 determined upon ; he also contributed substantial aid, by the do- 

 nation of instruments, and in other ways. 



The habits of this bird would seem to be like those of the 

 wren, as Mr. Ober has on the labels, " Wren ? " He states that 

 they are "very rare and very shy, and found in the crater and 

 dark gorges of the Souffriere." 



Three specimens were obtained in November, 1877, and one 

 in February, 1878. 



