A Holiday in the West Indies. 109 



A Holiday in the West Indies. 



By a. Sutcliffe 



(Concluded from page 295, Vol. I., N.S. 



My holiday was now drawing- to a close. \Ve had made 

 many nice friends, who Avanted to show us different parts of 

 the Island of Ti-inidad. We accepted an invitation to pass 

 a week end at a friend's house up in the hills, and set out 

 in a Ijuggie early in the morning. It was a lovely drive of 

 ahoul eight miles. I was surprised at the numlier of Tanagers 

 in the cofoa plantations, the Blue, Black, Maroon, and Scarlet, 

 were very luimerous, liehaving' in a very similar way to our 

 Blackbird. Desmarest and Yellow-liellied Tanagers were not 

 so numerous. The Violet Tanag-er, whose native name is 

 Louis D'or, could be seen in flocks of quite a hundred. There 

 were many Finches, l)ut they were difficult to identify. The Yel- 

 low-hciided Marsh Bird we met with in small parties. I only 

 once re:"ognised the Red-breasted Marsh Bird, although there 

 we;'(^ hup.di-cds of birds I could not identify. On the Tuesday 

 I saw a few Spotted Emerald Tanagers, quite close to our 

 friend's house. On the Monday we set out on a l>athing 

 expedilion to Mazaresch Bay, one of the most lovely spots 

 in the ^Vo ;t Indie^i. There are huge cliffs on each side, with a 

 perfect white coral beach, blazing hot with the vertical sun 

 and th(> water as clear as crystal. Here we spent about two 

 hours, roaming about in the beautifully cool water, under the 

 shade of the clilfs, amusing ourselves trying to dive deep 

 enough to touch the rocks, which only looked to be a few 

 feet down, but were really about 20 feet from the surface, the 

 clearness of the water made it very deceptive, one could see 

 the fish swimming about. There were scores of Pelicans wdiirl- 

 ing round and above us, and when they " spotted " a fish 

 down they came, quite 100 feet just like a ball, and when a 

 few feet from the water shot out their lony- neck and went down 

 without a splash. They returned to the surface practically 

 every time with a fish, often nearly as big as themselves, it 

 was most interesting to watch them, in fact my friend .nearly 

 had to dress me to get me away. We had a mishap before we 

 left, our dog was bitten by a snake, and died almost instant- 

 aneously, so we had to leave him for the John Crows, who 



