228 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
f Podilymbus podiceps, Ionornis martinica ; while according to 
Hughes the Scaled Dove ( Columba squamosa) used to visit the 
island regularly. It is probable that most, if not all, of these birds 
did occur when Barbados was clothed in natural forest, as Allenia is 
a common and widely distributed form; Cinclocerthia is common 
from Nevis and Barbuda to St. Lucia, and used to be on St. Vin¬ 
cent ; Margarops occurs from the Bahamas to St. Lucia, and has been 
obtained in recent years on Barbados; Puteo antillarum is abun¬ 
dant on the neighboring islands; Strix nigrescens is common on 
Dominica, St. Vincent, and Grenada ; Podilymbus podiceps occurs 
throughout the West Indies, and has been found on Barbados; and 
Ionornis is a common bird in the West Indies wherever there are 
swamps. No parrakeet is at present known from the Lesser Antilles; 
but Hughes and Scliomburgk both mention one, and there appears 
to be good evidence that these birds formerly existed on Martinique 
and Guadeloupe, so I believe we are safe in admitting it, at least 
provisionally. 
Owing to the rather general and intelligent interest taken in 
ornithology at Barbados, and to the f^ct that all parts of the island 
are accessible to the sportsman, and also because of its geographical 
position away from the other islands and not protected, so to speak, 
at all by them, a rather full list of migrants and accidental visitors 
has been recorded, no less than 50 from North America (including 
the shore birds), 13 from neighboring islands and the adjacent main¬ 
land, and 5 from the Old World. 
Annotated List. 
Podilymbus podiceps (Linn.). Pied-billed Grebe.— The 
Pied-billed Grebe is a rather uncommon resident on Grenada, Isle 
Ronde, and Carriacou. There is a specimen in the British museum 
from Barbados. 
Mr. J. H. Riley (: 04 b ? p. 278) finds that two birds of this species 
from Antigua and Barbuda differ slightly from North American 
examples. Mr. B. S. Bowdish remarks (.Auk, vol. 19, p. 357, 1902) 
that a specimen obtained by him at Aguadilla, Porto Rico, is 
