1894
Feb.23
(No 2)
St. Thomas
  I saw this morning on St. Thomas one Thrush
(probably Margarops fuscatus), several Honey Creepers
(Coereba portoricensis) with white superciliary stripes,
great number of Eutheia bicolor, two fine large
Hummers with dark velvety (?) throats and broad
rounded tails and a Kingfisher (Ceryle alcyon [female])

  The Grass Quits were everywhere. In the town they
were quite as familiar as Passer domesticus (but
less tame) and while we were dining on the
piazza of the hotel they were continually alighting
on the floor among the tables and hopping about
apparently in search of crumbs. They chipped like
our Sparrows and also made a fine, hissing tre-e.

  The Hummers were together and one repeatedly
rose above and swooped down over the other
making, all the time, a shrill squeaking like
that of T. colubris. Doubtless they were a pair
mating.

  The little Honey Creepers behaved much like our
Mniotilta, creeping and hopping by turns & taking
frequent short flights.

  The Kingfisher was sitting in a palm by
the roadside and we passed within 20 ft of
it.

  I heard no bird singing whatever and no sound
of insects. The latter seemed scarce. I saw a