1894
March 4
(No 2)
Barbados.
sixteen species of land birds [delete][?][delete] we saw at least
two or three hundred during our drive. They were in
every grass field and pasture stalking sedately about
precisely in the manner of Quiscalaus aeneus and
every grove of trees was alive with them. I was
much interested in their notes for they seem to
have copied some of them from Agelaeus. [delete[Thus they
have a [/delete] At least the call note (cac) and the cry of
alarm (peer) are curiously like those of our Red-wing.
In addition they utter a series of four notes which
may be rendered as see-quick-come-here in 
high, wiry, squeaky tones with a slight rising inflexion
at the end.
  There was a beautiful Yellow Warbler large, with
the whole crown rich seal brown but otherwise like
D. Aestiva in color & markings. The females lacked
the brown cap and were generally duller than the males.
I also saw a pair of Yellow Warblers which I took
to be true aestiva. I had both male & female under
my glass at short range & in good light.
  We saw only two Hummingbirds one of which seemed
to be Eulampus jugularis. 
  Everywhere that we went but especially in the town
we saw great numbers of Pyrrhulagra [blank space]. It is
of about the size and shape of an English Sparrow
and colored very nearly like the [female] of the species
save that the under tail coverts are dull brick red.
It takes the place of the House Sparrow here and is