in general appearance and behavior, hopping about on the 
ground in the busiest streets and with the same bounding 
or bouncing motion. It is a more silent bird,however, and 
it appears to be less social for we seldom saw more than 
two together. Several of our passengers mistook these 
birds for House Sparrows. 
We left Barbados at 4 P. M. and had a wonderfully 
smooth and pleasant run to Trinidad. The sea was almost 
as calm as a small lake. Chapman saw an Audubon’s Shear¬ 
water before sunset and at about 11 P. M.I heard many 
times at short intervals what were probably the cries of 
this species. They seemed to come from the surface of the 
water close under the rail of the ship and were so loud and 
peculiar as to attract the attention of everyone who hap¬ 
pened to be on deck at the time. One of the passengers 
thought that it resembled the screams of a small child and 
suggested that one of the negro women on board had thrown 
her baby over the rail but to my ear they were more like 
the snarling growl of an angry cat. 
It was very warm this evening even on deck for the 
trade wind was unusually light and we were running nearly 
before it. 
