446 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



my kind friends Capt. M. Short and Mr. Trochilus Tucker in 

 Tobago, I found it to be fairly common on the windward side of 

 the island. It will not be out of place to mention that the last- 

 named gentleman's father collected Humming-birds for the late 

 Mr. Gould nearly thirty years ago, and, visiting him one morning 

 by appointment in London, mentioned that he had received news 

 by cable of the birth of another son. " Call him Trochilus," 

 said Gould ; and it was so arranged when Mr. Tucker returned to 

 Iere ! The young birds have a barred throat and dirty white 

 breast, as immature plumage. 



Glaucis hirsuta, Gm. " Rachette." — This bird was very 

 partial to the flowers of the balisiers which abound on the banks 

 of streams and damp shady places. I took it both at Claxton's 

 Bay in Trinidad and Tobago. 



Agyrtria niveipectus, Cab. and Heine. " Gorge blanc." — 

 Found both in the Caparo Valley and Savana Grande districts of 

 Trinidad, but I did not observe it in Tobago. 



Amazilia tobaci, Gm. — It was not until I visited Tobago that 

 I secured skins of this bird ; the first one I shot was on my way 

 to Robinson Crusoe's cave. Though I visited this historic cave 

 in a vain attempt to secure the Fish- eating Bat, Noctilio leporinus, 

 Linn., it was a sad awakening to view the reality, after the boyish 

 remembrances I retained of Defoe's charming romance. In a 

 few years there will no cave at all, and now the action of the 

 waves — for it is on the windward side of the island — has reduced 

 it to a mere cupboard of stalactitic limestone, in which you can- 

 not stand upright, and the roof is so cracked that it looked as if 

 the report of a gun might bring the whole thing down about 

 one's ears. 



Campy lopterus ensipennis, Sw. — In size this was the largest 

 of all my West Indian Hummers. I saw it nowhere, save 

 on the Richmond Estate in Tobago, and then always on the 

 wing. 



Bellona ornata, Gould. — Though the male of this bird was 

 very common in St. Vincent, I still had the greatest difficulty in 

 obtaining a female, and when I did I also obtained the nest and 

 eggs of the bird. The nest was built in the mouth of a small 

 cave high up in the Waliilabo Valley, where I stayed with my 

 hospitable friends, the MacDonalds, for the purpose of collecting. 



