Sir WiUiam Ingrams Birds of Parndisc 
371 
Sir William Ingram's Birds of Paradise at Little 
Tobago. 
Pee O. Millsum. 
Continued /roni 'page 337. 
No lats are on the island, and but one kind o[ small uuakc. 
Supposedly broken potk-ry of the earibs is found and appears by no means 
scarce . Sea birds abound, and plenty of good sea fish can be had for 
the trouble or pleasure if you like, of catching them. It does not ajinear 
as thougli Squirrels inhabit this part of the world like they do in Tobago, 
anil where Ihcy are such a pest to the cocoa planter. Small ch'ared 
track.-, intersect the island for convenience sake in allowing one io get 
about an(i o\-er it, the upper and centra! one being known as " Broadway 
Koad.' There is also brought into view the clear and deep blue sea 
below, and in tlic distance, and across Tobago shore and its inountain 
landscape. Among the various numbers of the wild plant:; which grow 
upon Little Tobago, two lots stand out pre -eminently', namely a palm 
and a sort of wild tannia, and this is due to the immense gregarious 
quantities in which they are met. Each is found in Tobago, but neither 
is evei' apparently crammed togelhur there in the masses tha'. ons iiccs 
them here The first is the local bag palm, Thriiinx nrgciitca, whose 
leaves are of a silvery liue underneath, and the other is that known to 
botanists as Anthurinm huokiri. Thousands upon thousands of each 
of thesit plants simply grow luxuriantly all over the place and in every 
stage of growth and development. Where they are best seen to per- 
fection are in those positions that have been formed by tlie aid and 
shelter of the wild trees which screen and protect them from the high 
winds and froni diiect contact with the sun. The teeming numbers of 
large, broad and long shining green leaves, accompanied as they are with 
the extended tail-like dark reddish flowering and fruiting parts of the 
innumerable Anthurlums, arrest attention from the most casual of ob- 
servers. This latter plant was referred to in particular, if we mistake 
not, sometime back by cue of Sir William's sons, after he had visited 
his father's island, in an article he wrote for the " Ijondon Field." 
Many — one might say in truth, thousands of them — of the dwarfer 
formi'i: ThriiKix palms are magnificently shaped plants and would 
bring Joy to the heart of the best of plant cultivators, could they but 
see such beautiful foliaged plants. But these are for Bob'.s glorifi- 
cation only. On the other hand the older of them have tall, slender 
trunk.5 Tipon which are poised the heads of leaves with its floral and 
fruiting (seeding ) jiorlions nestling away uj) among the branches of the 
island's higher trees, such as one might instance as the West Indian 
Turpentine tree (Bitmrra), the manjak (clammy cherry), or yet again 
another vernacular umbrella tree {Cordia ), Dogwood (riscidia), and 
Sideroxylon . Only two ferns were seen during the few hours visit, 
an Adianttim in the ground, and a climbing Polypodium. A block of 
tall cabbage palms i^Crcodoxa) were noticed. Of shrubs there were Clean 
