PREFACE. 



The Birds of Grenada being so little known, the writer 

 has "been induced to prepare the following list, which he trusts 

 may prove of use to those interested in bird-life, and in the 

 island generally. 



There appears to have been little notice taken of our birds 

 until the year 1878, when the Smithsonian Institution of 

 America sent out Mr. F. A. Obek, who made a tour of the 

 West Indies, collecting birds and "taking notes" generally; 

 the result of which was the production of that entertaining 

 volume " Camps in the Caribbees." Mr. Ober made but a 

 short stay in Grenada, and his list of birds amounted to fifty- 

 four : the writer has since added thirty-nine more, and had the 

 pleasure, during the past year, of discovering two birds new 

 to science, (Engyptila wellsi, and Zenaida rubripes,) and also 

 one new to the Antilles, (Cymindis uncinatus.) 



Most of the birds obtained by the writer were sent to the 

 Smithsonian Institution, and determined by G. N. La.wrence, 

 Esquire, of New York, the well known Ornithologist and au- 

 thority on birds. 



JOHN GRANT WELLS. 

 Grenada, 



March 1886. 



