THE SOUFRIERE—BIRD. 207 
My precious bird had landed safely at the bottom 
of the gulch, though somewhat soiled, and he now 
reposed in my game-basket, wrapped in a paper cone. 
This was the first soufriére-bird I secured; the next 
day I shot three others; they proved to be a new 
species and were named the Myzadestes sibclans. 
Another species, shot in the same locality, proved to 
be also new, and was afterwards named the Leu- 
copeza Bishopi. 
The day following, Toby’s patience gave out 
entirely, and I was obliged to descend the mountain 
to the Carib country, which, as the cloud of fog lifted, 
I could see from my cave as a lovely green slope, 
lying between dark mountains and blue, white-rimmed 
ocean. 
