CLARK: LESSER ANTILLEAN BIRDS. 
2(55 
Type. — No. 12,796, $ ad., coll. E. A. and O. Bangs. Peter’s 
Hope, St. Vincent, Feb. 11, 1904. 
This form resembles C. m. domirticae from Dominica, but is paler 
below, and has a longer and stouter bill. The color of the under¬ 
parts is intermediate between that of C. m. dominicae and C. m. 
minor from the Grenadines, but the bill is considerably larger than 
in either. 
Mr. Riley includes the St. Vincent Cuckoo under C. m. dominicae , 
but appears to have had no specimens for comparison. None of the 
six Dominican birds which I have examined shows any approach 
to this light-colored, large-billed form. 
Mr. Nicoll (: 04, p. 565), speaking of the Mangrove Cuckoos of 
St. Vincent, says that they are apparently intermediate between 
C. rn. minor and C. m. maynardi ; but he himself obtained no 
specimens on the island, and his statements are based on birds in 
the British museum collection. The two examples which I took, 
as well as others which I saw, were intermediate between C. m. 
minor and C. m. dominicae in color. Mr. Nicoll’s observations 
would, however, be applicable to birds from the Grenadines in a 
rather worn state of plumage, or to specimens in a faded condition 
from those islands; and, in view of the rarity of this bird on St. 
Vincent, and the abundance of C. m. minor on the Grenadines, it is 
very possible that the examples examined by Mr. N icoll from “ St. 
ATncent” were in realitv of Grenadine origan. 
Unfortunately for ornithology, the colony of St. Vincent includes 
not only the island (“ mainland ”) of that name, but also all the 
Grenadines north of Carriacou. Now St. Vincent proper and the 
Grenadines, as pointed out, lie in different faunal areas, and unless 
one can be absolutely certain where a specimen was taken, it is 
unsafe to admit it into consideration. The Grenadine towns are 
locally regarded simply as country villages of St. Vincent, just as 
much as Georgetown, Layou, Chateaubelair, or Barrouallie on the 
island itself. To give an idea of the confusion which might arise: 
Ortalis ruficauda is found only on Bequia and Union Island, and 
Eupsychortyx sonninii occurs only on Mustique, but all these islands 
are politically “ St. Vincent.” Moreover, Coccyzus minor (minor), 
Holoquiscalus luminosus , and the Yellow-breast, Coereba wellsi 
(form morrisi) are abundant on all the Grenadines, while the cor¬ 
responding forms, C. minor (vincentis ), II. dispar , and C. atrata 
