1894
Feb. 25
(No 3)
St Christopher (or St "Kitts").
  The big "Banyan" tree (it spreads about 150 ft
and its foliage closely resembles that of our Live Oak)
was also alive with birds and they were also
numerous throughout the Park as well as in
the neighboring private gardens. I saw and fully
identified one Mniotilta varia ([female]), a dozen or
more Setophaga ruticilla, several Coereba barthol[,]
numerous Euthera bicolor, three Vireo calidris, and
one Bellona [blank space] (the only Hummer)[.]
  There was also a beautiful male Sparrow Hawk
(Falco [blank space]) with only a slight tinge of
rufous on the faintly barred tail, conspicuous
black cheek markings, and pure white under
parts heavily streaked longitudinally with
blackish. It made several unsuccessful dashes
at the smaller birds & perched over the
terminal spike of a Royal Palm.
  Vireo calidris was singing at intervals through the 
day. Its song is very like our Red-eye's but
more disjointed or less flowing and an occasional
note has a wild ring that recalled the voice of
our solitarius. It[s] call note is also much like
that of V. olivaceous but shorter & harsher.
  The Grass Quits chirp like Sparrows
and make a peculiar ze-e-e which reminded
me of the sound produced by striking a
tightly-strung wire sharply or by whirling a
slender wand about the head. * This I think
was the song. The old birds were feeding broods of young
which were fully grown & resembled the female parents. 

[margin] *At Antigua Feb. 27 I saw a Honey Creeper
Coereba Bartholemica in the act of making
this sound and became convinced that my reference
of the notes to Euthera was a clear mistake.
The two species are almost invariably found together
or near each other.[/margin]