232 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
Note.— Wells (’86a, p. 630) says that there is “a small duck, quite black, 
occasionally found in the sea [about Grenada], I shot one a couple of years 
ago.” The only black duck-like bird which is maritime in habit and which 
might stray into these waters is the Brazilian Cormorant (Phalacrocorax 
brasiliensis), which possibly may range as far north (in the West Indies) as 
Grenada, as it occurs about Trinidad, and either this or a closely allied form is 
abundant along the Venezuelan coast. Mr. Wells was very little acquainted 
with birds, except with those of Grenada (c/. his identification of Erismcitura 
jamaicensis as Colymhus holhoelli), and as this little cormorant more or less 
resembles some ducks in general habits, he might very well have referred to 
it as a duck. 
Felecanus occidentalis (Linn.). Brown Pelican ; Grand- 
gorge.— The Brown Pelican is an irregular visitor to Barbados. 
In 1886 and 1887, according to Col. Feilden, it appeared in flocks 
of hundreds. 
This bird occurs along the shores of St. Vincent, mainly about 
Young’s Island and Calliaqua, but is not at all abundant as a rule. 
It is common throughout the Grenadines, especially about Carria- 
cou, on the Pillories (near Mustique), about the leeward coast of 
Mayreau, and in the vicinity of Bloody Bay and Clifton, Union 
Island. It occurs mainly in the winter months, and almost wholly 
disappears in the spring, but returns in early summer. The Brown 
Pelican does not breed anywhere in these islands, but is merely an 
annual visitor, possibly from southern Xorth America and the 
Greater Antilles. Ober says that this bird “breeds on the rocks 
north of Grenada, as well as through the Grenadines” ; but as after 
careful search and exhaustive inquiry I could find not the slightest 
sign of their ever having done so, I cannot attach any weight to the 
statement. Ober, himself, never visited the localities mentioned and 
probably relied on the assertions of natives at St. Vincent or at 
Grenada, who are (the lower classes) absolutely unreliable. He also 
gives the Spoon-bill (Ajaia ajaia) as casual in Grenada, and the 
Long-billed Curlew (Niimenius longirostris) as having occurred on 
St. Vincent (there are no Lesser Antillean records) apparently on 
the same authority. 
Dutertre says that in the year 1656 there was a great mortality 
among birds of this species, and that the shores of St. Lucia, St. 
Vincent, Bequia, and the Grenadines were strewn with their dead 
bodies. The Brown Pelican occurs all about the coasts of Grenada, 
