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68 ZOOLOGICAL GEOGRAPHY. [part III.
Grreater Antilles. They are beautifully-coloured birds,— green
above, red and white beneath, and are exceedingly active in their
movements. To the right are a pair of small humming-birds
{Sporadinus ricordi), not very remarkable in this beautiful
family, but introduced here because they belong to a genus which
is confined to the Greater Antilles.
I'able of distribution of West-Indian Birds.—As the birds of
the West- Indian islands are particularly interesting and their
peculiarities comparatively little known, we give here a table
of the genera of land-birds, compiled from all available sources of
information. Owing to the numerous independent observations
on which it is founded, the discrepancies of nomenclature, and
uncertainty in some cases as to the locality of species, it can
only be looked upon as an approximative summary of the
existing materials on Antillean ornithology.
TABLE OF TEE RESIDENT LAND-BIRDS OF THE ANTILLES.
Note.—Genera confined to the "West Indies are in Italics. An {a) after (1) indicates a
species common to two islands : but where there are two or more species in an island, or
the localities are doubtful, this indication cannot be given. All species not otherwise
noted are peculiar to the Antilles.