262 Clark, Extirpated West Indian Birds. \*h£ 



its exclusively arboreal habits. Columba squamosa, although 

 abundant on the neighboring islands, does not now visit Bar- 

 bados, possibly because of the cutting down of the forests. 



Geotrygon montana {Linn.). 



Perdrix. 



This bird appears to be now extirpated from St. Vincent, pos- 

 sibly as a result of the importation of the mongoose. I am told 

 that it has disappeared from St. Kitts, and is becoming rare on 

 other islands, more especially on Grenada. 



Strix (? nigrescens Lawr.). 

 Owl. 



Strix Jiammea Schomb., Hist. Barbados, p. 6S1 (1S48). 



Schomburgk includes " 5. flammea " in his list of the birds of 

 Barbados. No other author mentions any owl, but possibly some 

 form of this genus occurred when the island was largely under 

 forest. It may have been ■S'. nigrescens, at the present time a 

 common resident on Dominica, St. Vincent, Bequia (Grenadines), 

 and Grenada. 



Note. — Colinus virginianus (Linn.) is included by Schom- 

 burgk in his list of the birds of Barbados. There appears to be 

 no evidence that this bird ever lived there, although it is resident 

 on several of the more northern islands. Possibly he came into 

 the possession of a stray specimen captured in the island, as he 

 obtained in this way a specimen of the Ruff (Pavoncella pugnax). 

 A Quail was shot in Barbados in September, 1886, and another 

 seen in September, 1887. 



Cinclocerthia sp. 

 Quaking Thrush. 



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



Grive Ligox, Hist. Barbades, p. 101 (1674). 



Quaking Thrush Hughes, Nat. Hist. Barbados, p. 72 (1750). 



Turdus jamaicensis (!) Schomb., Hist. Barbados, p. 6S1 (184S). 



