21(5 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
fered the most. Hundreds, if not thousands of birds were killed on 
the island, and quantities were driven out to sea and lost. Allenia 
albwentris after the storm became a common resident on Union 
Island and Carriacou (possibly on some of the other Grenadines 
also), places where previously it had been unknown. It has since, 
however, died out at both places. One or two parrots (A. guild- 
ingii) were picked up dead on the shores of St. Lucia. The effects 
of the storm were not felt all at once. For days afterwards parrots 
and “ Rainier ” ( Columba squamosa ) would stray into the smaller 
towns in so helpless a condition that many fell a prey to the 
negroes. It is possible that starvation was the cause of this, as 
every green thing had been destroyed, and it was several days 
before the trees began to put forth buds. When the vegetation did 
begin to recover from the shock the whole island, I was told, pre¬ 
sented much the appearance of a rugged New England landscape in 
the spring. A number of the parrots were obtained alive at this 
time, and some of them are living in captivity yet. Several were 
sent to England, where, I believe, one or two are now in the Zoo¬ 
logical society’s garden at Regent’s Park, and Messrs. T. R. Nairn 
and Thomas Osment of Kingstown have each a beautiful bird in 
their possession. 
Bequia was also considerably damaged by this storm, but the 
other Grenadines escaped ; there was a strong gale at Canouan, and 
a moderate one at Union Island, but only slight damage was done 
at the former place and none at all at the latter. 
On May 7, 1902, occurred the first of the late eruptions of the 
St. Vincent Soufrffire, which resulted in the loss of almost 2000 
lives and the total destruction of every living thing on and in the 
vicinity of the volcano. The whole district was bulled under tons of 
“ash ” and scoria. The devastated area was about one third of the 
entire island and was the district from which the types of Mya- 
destes sibilans and Catharopeza bishopi had been obtained; it was 
on the Soufri&re, actually within the crater, where formerly the lat¬ 
ter of these two birds had been most frequently met with, and the 
higher altitudes of that mountain were the chosen home of those 
exclusively woodland species which inhabited the island. The 
ejecta from the volcano fell with sufficient force at Belair estate at 
the opposite end of the island (fourteen miles away) to riddle the 
leaves of the breadfruit trees and, without doubt, to kill such small 
