CHAPMAN — BIRDS OP TRINIDAD. 
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THE BIRDS OF TRINIDAD. 
Mr. Frank M. Chapman has published in the Bulletin of 
the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. VI. (1894) 
pp. 1-86, an article on the Birds of Trinidad. This is an 
interesting and valuable contribution to the ornithological 
branch of our local natural history. To render more accessible 
the results of Mr. Chapmans work so far as regards the 
nomenclature of the specimens in the Leotaud Collection m our 
museum I append the list given by him and the numbers 
attached to the specimens. 
Captain Kelsall who was in Trinidad in 1868 had a list of 
the Birds printed and in this list the Species named in Leotaud’s 
book but not represented in his collection were indicated. This 
list included also the name ° of the Scarlet Tanager not 
mentioned in Leotaud ? s book and on the occurrence of which 
in Trinidad a note was communicated to the Scientific Associa- 
tion by Captain Kelsall (see Proc. Scient. Assoc. Trinidad, 
1868 p. 208). As the list prepared by Capt. Kelsall is out of 
print that which follows may be useful. It includes not only 
the French vernacular names given by Leotaud, but the 
English ones given by Mr. Chapman. 
The present list will not only serve as a check-list of the 
Birds of Trinidad but as an index to the collection in the Victoria 
Institute. Notwithstanding the alterations and corrections 
made by Mr. Chapman the paper of the latter is in itself 
testimony to the very excellent work of Leotaud. 
* I observe that Mr, Chapman regards Piranga (Tcinagra) aestiva as 
synonymous wUh P, rubra Linn- Kelsall gives it as a different specwS, 
citing P. erythropis Vieill, as a synonym. 
