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species of Buzzard was indigenous. This may have been 

 Buteo latissimus (Wils.), at the present time numerous and 

 resident in St. Vincent. Ligon writes : — " 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 some- 

 what lesse than our grey Bussards in England, somewhat 

 swifter of wing ; and the only good they do is, sometimes to 

 kill the Rats.'' 



■j-27. Falco peregrin us, Tunstall. 



I am indebted to Mr. E. N. Armstrong, of the 'Crane' 

 Hotel, for a fine female example of this species, which was 

 shot near his residence on the windward side of the island, 

 17th November, 1888. 



Obs. Falco columbarius, Linn., is included by Schomburgk 

 in his list as one of the indigenous birds of Barbados, but 

 this is an error. It is, in all probability, an occasional visitor 

 to the island, and a Hawk which one of our party saw at 

 Chancery Lane on the 3rd of November, 1888, probably, 

 from his description, belonged to this species. Mr. Wells 

 has recorded it as an autumnal visitor to the island of 

 Grenada, arriving along with the Liraicolse. On the 27th of 

 October, 1888, whilst driving in Christchurch parish, a small 

 Hawk dashed past the horse's head ; it was, I think, un- 

 doubtedly Falco sparverius. 



-i-28. Zenaida amabilis, Bp. Wood Dove. 



This beautiful species is not uncommon in places where it 

 obtains protection, being numerous in the grounds of Cod- 

 rington College, where it nests on the fronds of the lofty 

 palmistes. I have often seen it in the gardens about Bridge- 

 town, especially in those of Government House and Bishops- 

 court. During my stay in Barbados I neither fired at nor 

 handled one of these birds, and I rather regret now that I 

 did not obtain a specimen for complete identification. This 

 species nests in clifi's as well as in trees. The Hon. Mr. H. 

 King informed me that he had taken the young from the 

 most precipitous side of Chalky Mount. 



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