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examples found in Dominica and St. Lucia— M. oberi Lawr. 
They are also easily distinguished, both in size (larger) and 
coloration, from examples of M. tyrannulus Muller. 
Molothrus atronitens (Cabanis). 
At the southern end of Grenada this beautiful glossy 
Cow-bird is rapidly establishing itself. I saw numbers flying 
about with flocks of Quiscalus luminosus } and shot four 
specimens. The bird has a most charming song—a series 
of low musical flute-like notes of extraordinary sweetness. 
I listened to one for some time as it sang on the ground 
beneath a mangrove bush. 
Los Testigos Islands. 
Leaving Trinidad on the afternoon of Dec. 31st, we 
arrived in the early morning of Jan. 1st, 1908, at this 
group of little-known islands and after some trouble found 
a very snug and safe anchorage in an almost land-locked 
position under the lee of the largest of them, which is called 
Testigo Grande (Great Witness) or Goat Island. 
These islands, six or seven in number, lie off the north 
coast of Venezuela. They are forty-three miles from the 
mainland, eighty-five miles from Grenada, and fifty-one 
miles north-east (roughly) of Margarita. 
Testigo Grande is of greater extent than is given in the 
sailing directions. We put its length at from three to 
three and a half miles, but its shape is very irregular, and 
in the short time at our disposal we had no opportunity of 
taking more accurate measurements. Its greatest height 
is (roughly) 400 to 500 feet. 
Scattered round it are other smaller islands or rocky 
fallarones. The group is periodically inhabited by fisher¬ 
men, who go there from January to April, but we were 
informed that one family now lived there all the year. 
Testigo Grande is thickly wooded and covered with very 
varied vegetation, in spite of the waterless condition in which 
we found it. Many of the trees attain quite respectable pro¬ 
portions, and there seemed to me to be an unusual variety. 
Besides many that were unknown to me, I noticed Logwood, 
