488 Mr. T. Grisdale on the 



humid, the Rector remarked that we had now reaehed the 

 elevation at which the bird was expected to be found. He 

 at once commenced operations by placing two of his fingers 

 to Lis lips and calling the birds, a process Avhich he had 

 learned from Mr. Ober, and whicli was taken up when he was 

 tired by each of his pupils in succession. 



The continued repetition of this call without result was 

 becoming ludicrous, rather than monotonous, when at last, 

 from the depths of tlie forest, a faint response was heard, 

 which, coming nearer and nearer as our calls were repeated, 

 at last appeared to proceed from the thick foliage high over- 

 head. Careful inspection now revealed the dim outline of a 

 bird, and I lost no time in firing a shot. 



Whether it was owing to my defective aim, or whether the 

 bird lodged in the thick foliage above, or was hidden among 

 the tangled vegetation below, it is impossible to say; but the 

 most careful search by the whole of the party failed to reveal 

 any trace of the stranger. A few hundred feet further on we 

 repeated our experiment, and, after another trial of our pa- 

 tience, obtained a response as before. This time I handed 

 my gun to Mr. Holme ; and the result of the first shot was 

 repeated, the only satisfaction derived from this second essay 

 being the assurance of the Rector that the bird at which he 

 had shot was an Oriole, and not a common one. 



A further stroll upward was followed by a third attempt, in 

 the carrying out of which I took my gun and brought down 

 the bird, which was immediately secured by our young- 

 companions. 



Soon afterwards we once again repeated the operation ; and 

 this time the Rector was as successful as I had been. Our 

 subsequent repetitions of the call, both in ascending and 

 descending the mountain, failed to elicit the desired response ; 

 but my friend and I were both perfectly satisfied with having 

 secured two specimens of what we believed to be a new bird. 



It was on my return to Barbadoes, at the end of March, 

 from a visit to Trinidad and Demerara, that I found a letter 

 from Mr. Holme, in which he told me that be had heard from 

 Mr. Ober that the bird he had been in search of on Chances 

 Mountain was a new species, and that it had been named by 



