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dry grasses forming beds along the roadside — fine grasses, 
very like those at home. 
I saw this morning on St. Thomas one Thrush (probably 
Margarops fuscatus ), several Honey Creepers ( Coereba portoric- 
ensis ) with white superciliary stripes, great numbers of 
Euethia 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 
chipp ed like our Sparrows and also made a fine, hissing 
tze- e-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 Trochilus colubris. Doubt¬ 
less they were a pair mating. 
The little Honey Creepers behaved much like our 
Mniotilta , creeping and hopping by turns and taking frequent 
short flights. 
The Kingfisher was sitting in a palm by the roadside 
and we passed within 20 feet of it. 
