from the West Lid'ies. 563 



strong measures to protect this magnificent bird from 

 further destruction. It is now confined to the highest 

 peaks of the island. 



In St. Vincent I obtained three specimens only of a single 

 species, Certhiola atrata, which is very abundant there. 

 Examples of this bird from St. Vincent have a less yellow 

 tinge on the abdomen and larger bills than those from 

 Grenada, -which have been lately separated by Mr. Ridgway 

 as Cvereba wellsi (B. N. A. ii. p. 423), but there are inter- 

 mediate examples in the British Museum. 



We left St. Vincent on January 27th for Carriacou, one 

 of the Grenadines, where we arrived the same evening. 

 Between St. Vincent and Carriacou I saw a Skua (Sterco- 

 rarius crepidatus) ; this is, I believe, the second recorded 

 from the West Indies. As we did not get to Carriacou till 

 late in the afternoon and left early the next morning, I only 

 had time to visit a small island in the middle of the harbour, 

 on which I had heard that Pelicans (Pelecanus fuscus) roosted. 

 Besides the Pelicans, I obtained there specimens of Zenaida 

 aurita (Temm.) and dfigialitis semipalmata (Bp.). 



On January 28th we left Carriacou for Grenada, where 

 we anchored the same day. On our arrival we were told that 

 Sir Frederick Johnston's yacht c Emerald/ with Dr. Bowdler 

 Sharpe on board, had been at Grenada about three weeks 

 before us. From St. George's, the capital, Ave drove up to 

 a volcanic lake called " Grand Etang," about 2000 feet 

 above sea-level. In the thick woods round this lake were 

 numbers of birds, but owing to the height of the trees 

 they were difficult to reach. Here I shot an opossum 

 (Didelphys). This is the mammal which, having been in- 

 troduced into Dominica and Guadeloupe, is said to have 

 completely destroyed the now nearly extinct Petrel (CEstre- 

 lata heesitata). I collected examples of the following twelve 

 birds in Grenada: — 



Vireo LAUR.E. (Plate XI. fig. 2.) 



Vireo laura Nicoll, Bull. B. O. C. vol. xiv. p. 95 

 (June 15th, 1901). 

 This Greenlet, of which I obtained an adult male at Grand 



