PART I. 
List of birds obtained and observed during the year 1904 
and hitherto unrecorded from Dominica; with notes on their 
habits and occurrence and descriptions of three new species. 
The following list and notes are compiled from my own 
observations and collections, made during the period from January 
first 1904 to August first 1905. In all cases I have excluded 
all species of which 1 have not actually obtained specimens, 
or in which the characters are so pronounced and the circum- 
stances under which they have been observed are such as to 
render their identification positive. 
In Part II I have included all species now recorded from the 
island, including those observed during the past year. Many of 
the species hitherto recorded have so increased or diminished in 
numbers, or have so changed in their habitat ; dusing the thir- 
teen years since the list by my brother, Mr. G, E. Verrill and 
myself, was published that I have deemed it of interest to note 
such information, as well as any new: facts in regard to nesting 
habits, changes of plumage etc., as I have obtained by the exam- 
ination of additional specimens and observations made during all 
the various seasons of the year. 
Although the new additions to the Dominican avifauna iw 
very large, Lam quite positive that the list of species occurring 
here is still far from complete. 
In addition to the migratory birds,—many species of which 
no doubt escape observation or are irregular or casual in their , 
visits,—there are many portions of the island which have never 
been visited by any collector and which may well contain species 
not only unknown to the island fauna but quite possibly new to 
Science as well. 
In facu I now have specimens of two new species of Humming- 
birds ; one of which is herein described and which I have named 
in honor of the Hon. H. Hesketh Bell, Administrator of Domini- 
ca, whose interest in the ornithology of the island which he 
governs, has proved an invaluable aid to me in my researches. 
Before describing the second species I have considered it wise to 
procure additional material; as it so closely resembles a species 
from the more southern islands that it may, upon the examina- 
tion of a larger series of specimens, prove merely a local variety 
or insular form, 
Nearly all the resident species are known to the natives by 
local “ Patois” names, but in many cases the male and female of a 
