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joined us in the channel between Trinidad and Granada, 
but I do not think that this has really been the case. 
We had a fine sunset, the sea very calm with 
three shining pathways radiating from the ship towards as 
many vfhite clouds low down in the East from vmich the 
light was reflected — a phenomenon new to me. 
Water Birds of the West Indies. 
Kow that I am on the point of leaving the West 
Indies, it occurs to me to enter a fev/ general comments 
on the water birds which I have seen. They have been very 
few in numbers both as regards species and individuals, 
a fact which is doubtless due to the great depth of the 
water, even very near the islands, and the consequent 
scarcity or lack of feeding grounds. In many of the harbors 
and along most of the leeward shore I did not see a single 
bird of any kind and at the most there would be only a 
few Brovm Pelicans and now and then a Royal Tern or two. 
The only Gulls which I saw anywhere v/ere a single bird, 
which I took to be a Herring Gull, at Port-of-Spain, and 
three or four Black-heads (L arus atricilla ) at Grenada. 
Booby Gannets and Tropic Birds kept well of shore as a 
rule and virere novirhere very numerous. There a good many 
Frigate Birds about Morros (Trinidad) and the neighboring 
vjaters but they were very scarce elsewhere, I saw the 
