It was subsequently judged desirable to modify this plan, by omitting such species as had been well figured before, in works easily available to the British public.

The plates, however, had been already numbered in agreement with the order in which the species are treated in the work above-named; and this order could not be changed: they are recommended to be arranged, when bound, as they are enumerated in the following table, the numbers being still successive, though not continuous.

London, April, 1849.

CONTENTS.

Buteo borealis[2]
Ephialtes grammicus[4]
Nyctibius Jamaicensis[6]
. . . . . . . . pallidus[7]
Acanthylis collaris?[8]
Tachornis phœnicobia[9]
Cypselus niger[10]
Hirundo euchrysea[12]
Todus viridis[14]
Certhiola flaveola[16]
. . . . . . . . maritima[17]
Lampornis mango[18]
Trochilus polytmus (male)[19]
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (female)[20]
Mellisuga humilis[21]
Trochilus Maria[22]
Merula leucogenys[23]
. . . . . . Jamaicensis[24]
Seiurus Noveboracensis[28]
Sylvicola pensilis[32]
. . . . . . . . eoa[34]
. . . . . . . . pannosa[37]
. . . . . . . . pharetra[38]
Myiobius pallidus[40]
. . . . . . . . tristis[41]
. . . . . . . . stolidus[42]
Tyrannus caudifasciatus[44]
Elania cotta[45]
Corvus Jamaicensis[52]
Quiscalus crassirostris[53]
Tanagra nigricephala[56]
Tanagrella ruficollis[58]
Euphonia Jamaica[59]
Coturniculus tixicrus[60]
Crithagra Brasiliensis[61]
Spermophila anoxantha[62]
. . . . . . . . . . . bicolor[64]
. . . . . . . . . . . adoxa[65]
Pyrrhula violacea[66]
. . . . . . . . Robinsonii[67]
Piaya pluvialis[74]
Geotrygon sylvatica[84]
Zenaida? plumbea[85]
Egretta nivea[90]
. . . . . . ruficollis[93]
Rallus concolor[102]
Ortygometra minuta[104]
Himantopus nigricollis[108]
Anas maxima[110]
Cyanopterus inornatus[111]
Erismatura ortygoides[113]
Podiceps Dominicus[120]

Plate II.

P. H. G. del. et lith.

Reeve, Benham & Reeve, imp.