1894
March 4
Barbados.
  Clear and very warm.
  We left St. Vincent at 5 P.M. yesterday and
came to anchor in the open roadstead at Barbados
a little after day break.
  At 9 A.M. Chapman and I went ashore and
after walking a short distance through the town
took a carriage and drove out into the country.
It proved singularly barren and uninteresting for it
was nearly flat and chiefly in sugar cane and
grass fields with now and then a small piece
of low scrub much like that of Florida. The
soil is said to be fertile but it looked parched
and worthless. The vegetation was withered and dusty
and many of the trees and shrubs were nearly 
bare or very thickly covered with leaves. There were
few fine trees except in town where we saw
literally scores of "banyans" similar to the one at
St. Kitts and many other beautiful trees.
  Birds literally swarm on this island but curiously
enough they all seem to have squeaky or wheezy notes
and we did not hear a single musical song.
  We saw Grackles (Quiscalus [blank space]), Euethia bicolor, 
Pyrrhulagra [blank space], Coereba [blank space], Dendroica 
[blank space], D. aestiva (?) and [delete]Ry[/delete] Eulampus jugularis?
  The Grackles looked much like ours but they are
smaller & the females are colored like the males.
They have yellow eyes and the male is "boat-tailed".
They are probably the most numerous of the