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or in trees, sometimes as much as ten feet from the ground. The 
two eggs are white. 
G-eotrygon montana (Linn.). Perdrix. — Formerly com¬ 
mon in the higher parts of St. Vincent and Grenada, but now prob¬ 
ably extirpated from the former island, and very rare on the latter. 
It is essentially a ground species, thereby falling an easy prey to the 
mongoose. 
Wells says that the nests are usually placed near the ground in 
trees or on stumps, very often in a tree fern; the eggs are two, 
light coffee-color, one usually darker than the other. 
Coccyzus minor minor (Gmel.). Cuckoo Manioc ; Rain- 
bird. — On examining a series of thirty-eight specimens of Coccy¬ 
zus minor from the islands of Dominica, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, the 
Grenadines, and Grenada, I find that there are three forms appar¬ 
ently well worthy of recognition. 
The bird from Dominica has been named Coccyzus minor do- 
minicae by Captain Shelley (Cat. birds Brit, mus., vol. 19, p. 306, 
1891), and is characterized as having a larger and thicker bill than 
C. m. minor , and in being darker, especially below. Mr. Riley 
(: 04b, p. 285) has renamed this form C. m. shelleyi , believing the 
name dominicae to be too close to dominions, g iven ( Cuculus do¬ 
minions') by Linnaeus (Syst. nat.,vol. 1, p. 170,1766) to the resident 
West Indian Yellow-billed Cuckoo ( C. americanus) ; but it seems 
to me that the two terms dominions and dominicae are sufficiently 
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distinct, and no change in nomenclature is called for, although it 
certainly would have been better had Captain Shelley chosen some 
other designation for his new bird. 
The series of 19 specimens of this species from the Grenadines 
and 4 from Grenada collected by myself shows that the birds from 
these localities are identical, there being no difference between 
those from Grenada and those from the smaller islands. Mr. Riley 
(ioc . cit.) includes Grenada in the habitat of C. rn. dominicae , and 
gives the measurements of a specimen from that island which cer¬ 
tainly is not the form I obtained there. All my birds were taken 
in the vicinity of Point Saline, near the southern end of the island, 
on low-lying ground, open, or grown up to scrubby bushes and 
cactus, just such conditions as obtain on the Grenadines. The 
larger part of the island, however, is damp and more or less wooded 
resembling in this respect Dominica, St. Lucia, or St. Vincent; and 
