-52 
1894 
March 4 
Barbado s. 
Clear and very warm. We left St. Vincent at 5 P/M. 
yesterday and came to anchor in the open roadstead at 
Barbados a little after daybreak. 
At 9 A. M. Chapman and I went ashore and after 
walking a short distance through the town took a carriage 
and drove out into the country. It proved singularly bar¬ 
ren and uninteresting for it was nearly flat and chiefly 
in sugar cane and grass fields with now and then a small 
piece of low scrub much like that of Florida. The soil 
is said to be fertile but it looked parched and worthless. 
The vegetation was withered and dusty and many of the trees 
and shrubs were nearly bare or very thinly covered with 
leaves. There were few fine trees except in the town, 
where we saw literally scores of "banyans" similar to the 
one at St. Kitts and many other beautiful trees. 
Birds literally swarm on this island but curiously 
enough they all seem to have squeaky or wheezy notes and 
we did not hear a single musical song. We saw Grackles 
(Quiscalus ), Euethia bicolor , Pvrrhulagra 
Coereba , Dendroica , Dendroica aestiva ? 
and Eulampis .jugularis ? . 
The Grackles looked much like ours but they are 
smaller and the females are colored like the males. They 
have yello?; eyes and the male is"boat-tailed!! They are 
probably the most numerous of the sixteen species of land 
