Vol ;*. XI1 ] Clark, Extirpated West Indian Birds. 259 



EXTIRPATED WEST INDIAN BIRDS. 



BY AUSTIN H. CLARK. 



In the present paper I have brought together all the evidence 

 as to the existence in former years of birds not known at the pres- 

 ent day on the islands of Barbados, St. Vincent, the Grenadines, 

 and Grenada (with the exception of the members of the family 

 Psittacidae) , and have given them what appears to me to be (in 

 the light of my recent studies in West Indian ornithology) their 

 proper standing. 



Some of the birds represent (as the Purple Gallinule, Tonornis 

 martinica) merely locally extirpated colonies of wide ranging spe- 

 cies, while others (as Cindocerthia) were probably subspecifically 

 or even specifically distinct from those on the neighboring islands. 



? Podilymbus podiceps {Linn.). 



Pied-billed Grebe. 



The Tivo-Peny Chick Hughes, Nat. Hist. Barbados, p. 71 (1750). 

 Podiceps dominions, The Two-Penny Chick Scho.mb., Hist. Barbados, p. 

 682 (1S4S). — Feilden, Ibis, 1SS9, p. 503; W. I. Bull., Ill, p. 352 [1902]. 



Hughes mentions a Grebe "of the Bigness and much the Colour 

 of the American Quail " as occurring in Barbados in his day. 

 Schomburgk also in his list includes a Grebe under the name of 

 P. dominicas. P. dominicus has never been found in the Lesser 

 Antilles, but Podilymbus podiceps is a breeding resident in many, 

 if not most of the islands, and there is a specimen in the British 

 Museum from Barbados. It is not known there at the present 

 time. The name " Two-Penny Chick," formerly applied to the 

 Grebe, is still used on the island, but now refers entirely to the 

 Sora (Porzana Carolina). 



Col. Feilden has followed Schomburgk in giving the Grebe as 

 P. dominicus ; but for the reasons given above I prefer to regard 

 it as Podilymbtis podiceps. 



