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Visitors: — J. Berry, F. Fish, T. Lennox Gilmour, 

 W. E. Graham, O. W. Harvey, S. L. HiNde, T. Miller, 

 H. Ogilvie-Grant, Lord William Percy, H. Russell, 

 R. C. Sturdy, M. R. Taylor, A, R. Ticehurst, S. Whiting. 



Dr. Sclater called attention to the thirtieth edition (for 

 1910) of the • Handbook of Jamaica,' prepared by Mr. J. C. 

 Ford, of the Jamaica Civil Service, and Mr, Frank Cundall, 

 Secretary of the Institute of Jamaica, of which copies had 

 just reached England, and made the following remarks :=— 



" To the first issue of this useful Handbook, published 

 in 1881, the late Prof. Newton and his brother the 

 late Sir Edward Newton (who was for some years Colonial 

 Secretary of Jamaica) contributed a ( List of the Birds 

 of Jamaica,' which has been for many years out of print 

 and unobtainable. When I was in Jamaica last year* 

 I consented, at the request of Mr, Cundall, to prepare a 

 revised edition of this list brought up to date, to be published 

 in the present year's ' Handbook/ The ' Revised List ' 

 follows, as closely as possible, the previous List, only 

 necessary alterations having been adopted. But I have 

 made two small additions by stating the habitat and range 

 of every species, and by appending to the List a few remarks 

 on the general character of the Jamaican Avifauna, 



" The number of species of birds found in Jamaica, 

 according to the present state of our knowledge, is about 

 194, of which 99 are constant residents, 52 are winter- 

 visitors, and 43 are of more or less occasional occurrence. 

 Of the ' Constant Residents/ 42 are peculiar to Jamaica and 

 are not known to occur elsewhere, and 8 of these 42 species 

 are generically distinct. 



" I am not sure that copies of the 'Revised List' will be 

 obtainable without the rest of the volume, but have been 

 promised a certain number of separate copies, which I shall 

 be pleased to supply to any Ornithologists interested in the 

 subject," 



* See Bull. B. 0. C. xxiii. pp. 70-71 (1909). 



