Messrs. A. and E. Newton on the Birds of St. Croix. 59 
basi ima et crisso cinnamomescenti-albis : alis fusco-mgri- 
cantibus, tectricibus majoribus albido, remigibus cinnamo- 
meo extus marginatis : rostro et pedibus nigro-fuscis : long, 
tota 7*0, alse 3‘6, caudse 2*7, tarsi 1-2, rostri a rictu -8. 
$ supra cinnamomea, interscapulio obscuriore, uropygio dilu- 
tiore, subtus sordide alba: alis caudaque nigricanti-fuscis, 
illis cinnamomeseenti-albo limbatis, hujus basi late cinna¬ 
momea. 
Hah. in Sahara Algeriensi, arbusta frequentans. 
Obs. Forsan Dromolcea isabellina Lochii, sed cum Saxicola 
isabellind Piippellii et Temminckii minime cosequalis. 
8. Saxicola halophila, Tristram. 
Supra cinnamomea, superciliis et dorso postico pure albis: late- 
ribus capitis et alis nigricantibus; bis sordido albo anguste 
marginatis : cauda alba, rectricum lateralium fascia lata 
terminali et duabus mediis fere omnino fusco-nigris : subtus 
alba, gutture et pectore cinereo adumbratis: rostro et 
pedibus nigris : long, tota 5*5, alse 3*5, caudse 2*4, tarsi 
1*0, rostri a rictu 0 - 6. 
$ mari similis, sed coloribus paullo dilutioribus, et lateribus 
capitis prsecipue minus nigris. 
Hob. in Sahara Algeriensi, loca salifera frequentans. 
9. Saxicola homochroa, Tristram. 
Pallide cinnamomea, subtus dilutior : cauda nigra: ventre uro¬ 
pygio et crisso cum basi caudse albis : alis nigricanti-fuscis 
sordido albo omnino limbatis : rostro et pedibus nigricanti- 
fuscis : long, tota 5*5, alse 3*5, caudse 2’5, tarsi *95, rostri 
a rictu 0*6. 
Hab. in Sahara Tunitana. 
VI.— Observations on the Birds of St. Croix , West Indies , made , 
between February 20 th and August 6th 1857 by Alfred 
Newton, and, between March 4>th and September 28 th 1858 
by Edward Newton. (Part I.) 
The Danish Island of Saint Croix, or, as it is often called, Santa 
Cruz, lies between 64° 40 ; and 64° 59' longitude West of Green¬ 
wich, and in lat. 17° 45' North, about forty miles nearly due South 
from St. Thomas, and eighty miles East by South of Porto Pico. 
It is about twenty miles in its greatest length, which lies almost 
due east and west, with a breadth varying from one to four 
