514 Mr. G. E. Lodge on some 



My excursions in Dominica were limited, extending only 

 to daily rides and walks from the town of Roseau. Havings 

 spent three w;eeks here, we left for Tobago, passing Martinique, 

 St. Lucia, Barbados, St. Vincent, Grenada, and Trinidad, 

 stopping a few hours at each place to take in and discharge 

 passengers and cargo, and at Barbados staying two days. 

 Arrived at Tobago, we met with a great disappointment at 

 the outset. Sir Napier Broome, the Governor of Trinidad, 

 under whose jurisdiction is also Tobago, refused our appli- 

 cation to shoot birds. This was most unreasonable, as the 

 permission might have stipulated a limited number of speci- 

 mens of each species, as was the case in Jamaica ; and our 

 stay being a short one, about three weeks, I could not 

 possibly have made much of a raid, as I was shooting and 

 skinning single-handed. According to the Hon. James Kirk^s 

 list of birds of Tobago, there are seven species here (none 

 of which I was destined to shoot), all different from those 

 I had previously met with. However, although I could 

 not shoot I could observe, and while spending all my time 

 here in landscape-painting, 1 nevertheless kept my eyes on 

 the look-out for Humming-birds that might come across my 

 path. As might have been imagined, from not especially 

 hunting for them, my notes are here very meagre. 



In Kirk^s list of the birds of this island the following 

 seven species of Humming-birds are put down, all of them 

 under the generic name of Trochilus : — T. hirsutus, T. lati- 

 pennis, T. mellivorus, T. viridis, T. moschitus, T. audeberti, 

 and T. mango. 



Of these I saw only two species alive, viz., Glaucis hirsuta 

 and Clirysolampis moschitus : one or two of the former, 

 but the latter were fairly plentiful, especially females, 

 and I believe the Emerald Humming-bird is not uncommon. 

 A black boy brought me a young bird he had shot with a 

 catapult, which I believe to be of this species. The throat 

 and lower neck-feathers are emerald-green, but are not fully 

 grown ; body-feathers and under tail-coverts grey, those on 

 upper breast tipped with bronze-green ; lower abdomen 

 white ; head and upper part of back dull golden green. 



