374 
Messrs. A. and E. Newton's Observations 
by Captain Baudin in the years 1796-8. His work *, accom¬ 
panied oy notes by M. Sonnini, was not published until twelve 
years after his return to France. It contains an “Essai sur 
1'histoire naturelle des lies danoises," from which (vol. ii. p. 39) 
we transcribe what relates to the birds, adding our own com¬ 
ments. 
“La petite perruche, ou tovi a tete d'or.— Psittacus tui Gm., 
352." This is in all probability the Parrakeet which is now 
found in St. Thomas, and there only (as far as we know), 
restricted to the hills on the eastern side of the harbour, called 
Havensigt. To our brother, Mr. F. R. Newton of St. Croix, 
we are indebted for some specimens of this bird, obtained during 
the past summer, which not only, as indeed might have been 
predicted from its habitat f is not Gmelin's Ps. tui , but appears 
to be a species hitherto undescribed. It belongs to the genus 
Conurus, and, though it a good deal resembles C. ceruginosus 
G. R. Gray, yet differs from that bird in wanting the brown 
throat. We subjoin the character of this new species drawn up 
by Mr. Sclater, who has bestowed upon it the name of Conurus 
xantholcemus , and described it in the ‘Annalsof Natural History' 
for September last (ser. 3, vol. iv. p. 225):—- 
“Lsete viridis, pileo summo cserulescente; fronte lato, oculorum 
ambitu, lateribus capitis et gula aurantiaco-flavis: pectore ful- 
vescente: abdomine et tectricibus alarum inferioribus pallide 
flavo-viridibus, ventre medio aurantiaco-flavo: remigibus alarum 
intus fusco-nigris, extus cserulescenti-viridibus; cauda subtus 
flavicanti-olivacea, supra dorso concolore, apicem versus cseru¬ 
lescente; rostro nigro, pedibus nigricantibus. Long, tota 9'5, 
alse 5*3, caudse 4‘3." 
The next birds in M. Ledru's list are— 
“ Le carouge de Cayenne.— Oriolus Cayennensisi, Gm., 391; " 
and “Le grebe-duc-Laart.— -Colymbus thomensis , Gm., 592:" 
neither of which do we know. And then comes 
“ Le pigeon vert .—Columba Sancti-Thomce , Gm., 778"— 
* “Voyage aux lies de Teneriffe, la Trinite, Saint-Thomas, Sainte- 
Croix et Porto-Ricco, &c. Par Andre-Pierre Ledru, &c. Paris, 1810. 
2 vols. 16mo. 
t Perhaps Pendulinus dominicensis (Linn.), which is common in St. 
Domingo, and, we believe, occurs in Porto Rico.— Ed. 
