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species. Although Cuba has the same number of endemic forms, 
many of them are evidently of North American origin, and cannot 
therefore be considered faunally as important as those of Jamaica. 
Haiti has two more peculiar genera than Jamaica, but it has only 31 
peculiar species as against 43 on Jamaica, and only 48 West Indian 
forms as against Jamaica’s 60. Toward the east the avifauna 
diminishes in intensity, Porto Rico having but one peculiar genus, 
10 West Indian genera, 18 peculiar species, and 37 West Indian 
species, while St. Thomas contains 4 West Indian genera, 1 charac¬ 
teristic species, and 11 West Indian forms. 
Passing to the Lesser Antilles, we find that the group comprising 
Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, and St. Lucia is the most impor¬ 
tant, as it contains 46 peculiar species and 5 peculiar genera. In 
this group should also be placed Montserrat and the northern end 
of St. Vincent. This gives us 6 peculiar genera and 49 peculiar 
species. The Lesser Antillean genera not included entirely within 
these limits are: Eulampis (Nevis to St. Vincent), Sericotes (St, 
Thomas to Grenada, and Barbados), Bellona (Porto Rico to Gren¬ 
ada, and Barbados), Cinclocerthia (St. Kitts to St. Vincent), Allenia 
(St. Eustatius to Grenada). The included genera are: Gmelinius 
(Dominica), Melanospiza (St. Lucia), Leucopeza (St. Lucia), Catha- 
ropeza (St. Vincent), Rhamphocinclus (Martinique and St. Lucia), 
Cinclilerminia (Montserrat to St. Vincent). 
In this group of islands as defined the following species call for 
special mention. Aestrelata f haesitata formerly occurred in the 
mountains of Guadeloupe and Dominica. Setophaga ruticillci is 
known as a resident on Dominica only. This appears to be an iso¬ 
lated colony from North American stock, comparable to the case of 
Erismatura jamaicensis and Querqiiedula discors , both of which 
breed in the Grenadines. Nomonyx dominicus (Guadeloupe and 
Dominica), Guara alba (Dominica), Melanerpes Iherminieri (Guade¬ 
loupe), and Mimocichla albiventris (Dominica) represent colonies 
of Greater Antillean forms, while Saltator guadeloupensis (Guade¬ 
loupe, Dominica, and Martinique), Ceryle stictipennis (Guadeloupe 
and Dominica), Antrostomus rufus (St. Lucia), JJrubitinga anthra- 
cina cancrivora (St. Vincent), and Regerhinus uncinatus (Gren¬ 
ada) 1 are unmistakably South American. The parrots of this region 
1 The continental species which have worked up from Trinidad and Tobago 
are not considered in this connection. 
