376 Messrs. A. and E. Newton’s Observations 
aurulentus (Vieill.) from St. Domingo and Porto Rico, with 
which Mr. Gould has allowed us to compare them. But we are 
far from thinking that the number of species of Trochilidce found 
in St. Thomas is so great as would appear from what M. Ledru 
says, even according to the most moderate interpretation of his 
words; and we venture to suggest that it is swollen from his 
having taken as specific distinctions the different states of 
plumage dependent upon age, sex, and perhaps season, assumed 
by the Humming-birds which we know to exist there. It may 
be worth remarking that there is a dealer in bird-skins in that 
island, whose endeavours to provide purchasers with what they 
may desire, rather than with what actually occur, are quite 
as unremitting as those of some of his paler-faced professional 
brethren in Europe; and we now have in our possession skins 
of Petasophora cyanotis and Ey'ythronota felicice (Bourc.) said 
by him to have been obtained in St. Thomas, but which were, 
doubtless, imported from their native regions on the shores of 
the Spanish Main. 
M. Ledru’s list concludes with— 
“ Un todier, nomme vulgairement perroquet de terre” of 
which we can only say that we know nothing. 
Mr. John P. Knox, in the little work we before quoted from, 
devotes a chapter to the Natural History of St. Thomas, in 
which he gives a slight sketch of its Ornithology (Hist. Acc. 
St. Thos., p. 220), the greater part being copied from Ledru’s 
work. Pie begins with a quaint account of the “ Ani or Black 
Witch,” Crotophaga ani (No. 22), and goes on to tell us that, 
besides the “ Parson Sparrow,” Phonipara bicolor (No. 21), 
“ there is also another sparrow; but its name is unknown : ” a 
species on which we can throw no light. He adds to the 
information supplied by Ledru respecting “the Yellow-neck 
(Matacella [sic] pensilis),” that “it is destructive to grapes,” 
and speaks of “ the Thrush, one or two species,” including therein 
Cichlherminia fuscata (No. 10), as we gather from the context. 
He then states (p. 221) that “a species of parrot and a little 
parroquet (Psittacus tui) are found quite abundant near 
Havensigt.” This latter is doubtless the Conurus xantholcemus 
just mentioned; but we are at present ignorant of the former, 
though we believe there is such a species to be found, and it 
