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Lister, who resided for some time in the island, and was thoroughly 
acquainted with its ornithology. The latest list is by the present 
author, and is of practically no scientific importance, having been 
compiled from memory during a stay there for the West Indian 
bulletin, at the instance of Sir Daniel Morris. It was written more 
as a guide to protective legislation than as an enumeration of the 
species inhabiting the island, and is, unfortunately, replete with 
•editorial and typographical errors. The preface, including an 
account of the geology of St. Vincent, is, however, useful. 
The Grenadines and Grenada .— Wells’articles on the ornithol¬ 
ogy of Carriacou are (except for a few passing notices by the earlier 
authors, and a short note by Lawrence) the only references we have 
to bird life in the Grenadines, and the present author has been the 
first to undertake a thorough investigation of those islands. It is to 
be regretted that nothing has hitherto been written concerning this 
district, where the South American and West Indian forms are 
more or less intermixed, as otherwise we should have at our com¬ 
mand much valuable information regarding the encroachment of 
the continental element upon Lesser Antillean territory, a consider¬ 
able part of which appears to have taken place in very recent years. 
Four lists of the birds inhabiting Grenada have been published in 
addition to a number of articles that mention certain species of that 
island or describe new forms. The first was by Lawrence (’ 78 b) 
based on the notes and collections of Ober. Six years later, John 
Grant Wells, a native of Grenada, published at St. George’s a small 
pamphlet containing the names of the birds of Grenada, as identified 
by Lawrence. This was followed in the same year by an excellent 
account of the avifauna of the island written by Wells, and pre¬ 
pared for publication by Lawrence. In recent years there has 
appeared in each issue of the Grenada handbook a list of the 
names, both scientific and local, of all the birds known from Gren¬ 
ada, and another of the birds found at Carriacou. The former was 
compiled by Wells for the Handbook, and the latter was taken 
from his articles on the birds of Carriacou. 
The appended bibliography contains the more important refer¬ 
ences to the literature on the ornithology of the southern Lesser 
Antilles, and the works of the earlier authors who have dealt with 
this group of islands in general. Monographs of certain groups, 
books dealing with North, Central, or South American species, or 
