218 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
those on the island I had just left was very striking; but I cannot 
say I noticed that the birds about Kingstown were much, if any, 
fewer than on my previous visit. 
Unfortunately, I did not go into the woods when I was first on 
the island ; but Lister, writing in 1880, gives the impression that 
Cinclocerthia, Catharopeza, Myadestes, Geotrygon, and Amazona 
were rather common in his time. Ober says that Troglodytes 
musicus was of very frequent occurrence in 1878. Cinchlerminia 
apparently has always been rare. Lister did not find it, nor did 
Ober obtain any specimens of it, although he heard its “ unmistak¬ 
able whistle” and saw “it as it flitted by in the dusk of the high 
woods.” 
At the present time Amazona guildingii must be put down as 
decidedly uncommon; and if another hurricane should occur within 
the next few years it is doubtful whether the species could survive 
it. 
Catharopeza bishopi I failed to find at all. I made a special 
search for this bird as I was particularly anxious to obtain a good 
series, but could discover no trace of it anywhere. Ober says that 
it was found “in the crater and dark gorges of the Soufri&re.” 
If it were confined to that district there can be no doubt as to 
its fate. Lister records it as “confined entirely to the high 
woods ” but does not specify at what points he met with it. As 
the Soufri&re was the most frequently visited portion of the wooded 
area (there being a rest-house near the summit, accessible by a 
bridle path, where parties often spent the night) he might very well 
have seen it there only. As no one else mentions it, and the natives 
of the island, even the manufacturers of “ mountain dew ” whose 
occupation keeps them largely in the most remote districts, are 
wholly unacquainted with it, it must be considered as extremely 
rare, if it is still to be found at all. 
Cinclocerthia rnjicauda tenebrosa is now very rare, although it 
may possibly be found in certain remote localities. I spent many 
clays in the high woods in localities where this bird used to be com¬ 
mon but neither saw nor heard one. 
Myadestes sibilans I did not obtain, although I searched for it 
at many points on the higher ridges and about the summit of Mt. 
St. Andrew, where it used to be of *frequent occurrence. Its note 
is well known to many of the people on St. Vincent, but I could 
