1894
Feb 27
(no 2)
Antigua
  The town is decidedly the least interesting place 
that we have thus far seen. The houses and other
buildings are small and of a commonplace style
of architecture but the English Cathedral is rather
attractive, especially within. The interior is finished
with hard pine (from Georgia) oiled. There is a
wonderfully beautiful view of the town & harbor from
the front of this cathedral. There are no gardens or
parks of any special interest & but few shade trees.
I saw a very few Eutheia bicolor, a pair of 
Tyrannus dominicensis, a Sparrow Hawk (spc?)
and great numbers of Coereba bartholemica. The
latter indeed were here the characteristic town
birds and for the first time very greatly outnumbered
the Grass Quits. I was not a little surprised to 
find that the Zee-e-e note which I have heard
on all the other islands but which previous to
this morning I have attributed to Eutheia is
really uttered by Coereba. It has been simply
another case of the "pig note" of our New England
Rails for the Eutheia and Coereba has been
everywhere together and without any real proof I have been
misled by usually finding a Eutheia when I heard
the note. To-day, however, I saw a Coereba make
this sound while I was standing directly beneath
him thus settling the matter.
  Save the Zeeing and an occasional low chirp from
Eutheia I heard no bird voices and there were
no insect sounds. Nor did I see any insects save
a few house flies and two very small mosquitoes.