450 REPORT— 1888. 



Hughes, Griffith. The Natural History of the Barbados. In 10 books. 

 London, 1750. Folio, pp. 314, tt. 29. Botany, pp. 97-256. 



Maycock, J. D. Flora Barbadensis. London, 1830. 8vo, with a 

 geological map. 



Schomhurgk, R. The History of Barbados. London. 1848. 8vo. 

 ' Botany,' pp. 573-633. 



Notwithstanding that the vegetation of Barbados has been dealt 

 with by so many diflerent writers, it has not been critically and 

 exhaustively elaborated. It possesses, however, no special interest. 

 Schomburgk enumerates 896 species of flowering plants ; yet, according 

 to Grisebach (' Geograph. Verbr. Pflan. W. Ind.'), only one species is 

 peculiar to the island against twelve in St. Vincent and twenty-nine in 

 Dominica. ' Hughes' Natural History ' is a fine old work, containing 

 admirable engravings by Ehret. 



Zoology. 



Ligon, E. A true and exact History of the island of Barbados. 

 London, 1657. 122 pp. Woodcuts. 



Pp. 60-65 relate to the birds, lesser animals, and insects. 



Hughes, G. The Natural History of Barbados. In 10 books. London, 

 1750. 



Includes particulars about the ' quadrupeds, volatiles, and insects.' 



Schomburgk, Sir E.. H. A History of Barbados ; comprising a geo- 

 graphical and statistical description of the island, and a sketch of his- 

 torical events since the settlement, and an account of its geology and 

 natural productions. London, 1848. Pp. xx and 722. 



Chapter V. pp. 635-683. ' Animated Nature as developed in Barbados,' 

 includes lists of the insects, Crustacea, molluscous animals, and vertebral 

 animals. A part is reprinted under the title, A Description of some new 

 species of fishes from the sea surrounding the island of Barbados, in 

 'Ann. N. H.' (2), ii. (1848), pp. 11-20. 



Steindachner, F. Ueber einige neue oder seltene Fischarten von 

 Westindien und Surinam. ' S. B. Ak Wien,' Ivi. (1867), pp. 347-357. 

 14 species, mostly from Barbados. 



Agassiz, A., and Pourtales, L. F. de. Zoological results of the ' Hassler' 

 Expedition. I. Echini, Crinoids, and Corals. ' Cat. Mus. C. Z.' viii. (1874). 

 pp. 1-31. Plates I.-IV. 



Numerous species from Barbados, including several new. 



Sclater, P. L. On a small collection of Birds from Barbados. ' P. Z. S.,* 

 1874, pp. 174, 175. 



9 species. 



Cory, C. B. An apparently new Elainea from Barbados, West Indies. 

 Auk,' V. (1888), p. 47. 



BAEBUDA. 



A small and very flat island, about half a degree north of Antigua 

 in 17° 40' N. lat. The population is small, and chiefly engaged in 

 breeding cattle and horses. Vegetation consists mainly of brushwood. 



LA DESIRADE (see GUADELOUPE). 



DOMINICA. 



This island lies between the French islands of Guadeloupe to the 

 north-west, and Martinique, to the south-east, in 16° 20' N. lat. and 



