l86 TlMEHRI, 
New Colony Birds. — From time to time, since the 
publication of SALVIN'S revised list of the birds of 
British Guiana in the Ibis, various species have come to 
hand j I append a list of these additions for reference. 
Tyr annus pipiri Coccygus americanus 
Chlorostilbon atala Picumnus spilogaster 
Malacoptila fusca Pyroderus orocensis 
Scops ustus Asio mexicanus 
Ciccaba virgata Buteola brachyura 
Circus maculosus Micrastur mirandolei 
Accipiter tinus Spizaetus tyr annus 
Rostrhamus leucopygus Falco aurantius 
Pandion haliaetus Cathartes urubitinga 
Ardetta exilis Porzana flaveiventris 
Porphyrio parvus Podilymbus podiceps 
Erismatura dominica Querquedula cyanoptera 
Thalassidroma pelagica Sula fusca 
Biological Station at Jamaica. — It seems certain 
now that the proposed Marine Biological Observatory at 
Jamaica will be established. The desirability of such a 
station in a suitable position in the tropics is so obvious, 
and has been already so ably stated, that little further 
need be said ; and that Jamaica, owing to its central 
and uniquely favourable situation, and with its high 
range of hills offering opportunities of change to workers 
from the colder climes, has been fixed upon as the site, 
augurs well for the success and permanence of the 
movement. 
It seems to us, however, that from the inception of the 
scheme, it would have been wiser to have adopted a 
wider basis— that, instead of there being simply a Marine 
