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Buteo (? antillarum Clark). 



West Indian Buzzard. 



Bussard Ligon, Hist Barbados, p. 60 (1673) 

 Milan Ligon, Hist. Barbades, p. 101 (1674). 

 Buteo borealis Schomb., Hist. Barbados, p. 6S1 (1S4S). 



Ligon says: "The birds of this place [Barbados] (setting two 

 aside) are hardly worth the pains of describing, yet, in order, as 

 I did the beasts, I will set them down. The biggest is a direct 

 Bussard, but somewhat less than our Grey Bussard [B. buteo] 

 in England, somewhat swifter of wing ; and the only good they do 

 is sometimes to kill the rats." 



Schomburgk gives "B. borealis" as a resident on Barbados. 

 Probably he refers to this species or a closely related form (as it 

 is abundant on the neighboring islands of St. Vincent, Grenada, 

 and Dominica) for B. borealis does not occur in the Lesser An- 

 tilles, except, perhaps, on St. Kitts. 



Hughes (1750) does not mention any hawk. 



At the time Ligon wrote the greater part of Barbados was still 

 clothed in natural forest, and it is very probable that this hawk 

 was then resident. 



Note. — Falco columbarius is given by Schomburgk as a resident 

 on Barbados (Hist. Barbados, p. 681, 1848). Col. Feilden (Ibis, 

 1889, p. 489 ; W. I. Bull., Ill, 342, [19C2]) believes him to be in 

 error, and he is not confirmed by other authors. However, there 

 is a possibility that it did breed there in his time, as it is said to 

 be a permanent resident on the island of Dominica, and occurs in 

 all these islands as a fall and winter visitor. 



Ionornis martinica (Linn.). 

 Purple Gallinule. 



Blue-Pated Coot Hughes, Nat. Hist. Barbados, p. 71 (1750). 

 Ionornis martinica Feilden, Ibis, 1SS9, p. 499 ; W. I. Bull., Ill, p. 349 

 [1902]. 



