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Lucia is 40, but as yet no general list of them has been given. The 
Museum of Comparative Zoology having lately received three con- 
siderable collections of the birds of this island from Mr. Semper, 
numbering altogether nearly 350 specimens and adding 16 species 
not as yet recorded from this locality, I take the present oppor- 
tunity of giving a connected list of the birds of this island, and 
of adding a few remarks respecting some of them. I take pleasure 
in here expressing my thanks to Mr. George N. Lawrence for aid 
in determining several of the species, and for revising many of my 
identifications. 
The sixteen species marked with a * are newly added; two 
marked t are given on the authority of Dr. Sclater; seven others 
marked $ are known only from Santa Lucia. 
X 1. Margarops sanctae-lucise, Sclater , Ibis, 1880, p. 73 . = M. her- 
minieri , Scl., P. Z. S., 1871, 268. — M. lierminieri var. semperi, 
Lawr., MS. 
Before the number of the “Ibis” for January, 1880, reached this 
country, Mr. Lawrence had sent for publication in the Bulletin a descrip- 
tion of the Santa Lucia Margarops, he bestowing upon this form the name 
semperi. As Mr. Lawrence’s paper contains a detailed comparison of 
the Santa Lucia form with the true M. herminieri from Guadaloupe, (Dr. 
Sclater’s comparison is with the Dominican form, which Mr. Lawrence 
has recently separated specifically from M. lierminieri under the name 
M. dominicensis, — see Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1880, 16,) I have his per- 
mission to give it herewith : — “ This [the Santa Lucia form] differs from 
the typical M. herminieri from Guadaloupe in being of a lighter brown 
above, with a tawny shade, instead of dark olivaceous ; the difference in 
the markings of the throat feathers is very decided, in M. herminieri they 
having fulvous- white centres, with brown margins, while in the other they 
are whitish with brown central stripes ; the most striking difference 
between them is that in the new species the abdomen is pure white, 
whereas in M. herminieri, with the exception of a small white space on 
the lower part, the abdomen is covered with conspicuous lanceolate-shaped 
markings, the centres of the feathers being white with well-defined brown 
borders ; in the Guadaloupe bird the under surface of the tail feathers is 
reddish-brown, and the white terminal portions of the under tail-coverts 
are edged with light brown, while in the bird from Santa Lucia the under 
surface of the tail feathers is grayish-ash, and the white ends of the tail- 
coverts are not bordered ; the last-named species has the bill dull brownish- 
yellow, and it is larger than that of M. herminieri, which has the upper 
mandible dark brown, and the under clear yellow. There are seven 
examples of the Santa Lucia form, all closely agreeing in plumage ; the 
sex of none of them is indicated, but probably both sexes are represented.” 
Lawrence , MS. 
