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records for the other islands (St. Vincent, the Grenadines, and 
Grenada), but probably the Shoveler is at least an occasional visitor 
to all of them. Cory gives it as recorded only from Jamaica, Cuba, 
Porto Rico, and St. Thomas. 
Erismatura jamaicensis (Gmel.). Red Diver ; Ruddy Duck. 
— The Ruddy Duck is a rare straggler to Barbados; one was ob¬ 
tained on September 13, 1888, and another in the fall of 1887, at 
Chancery Lane. 
This bird is occasional^ found on St. Vincent and Grenada, is a 
resident on some of the Grenadines, and a visitor to the others. 
Wells found it breeding at Lauriston swamp in Carriacou, and it is 
abundant at the pond at Isle Ronde, nesting in the latter part of the 
winter. 
Wells records Colymbus holboelli from Grenada (Isle Ronde), 
calling it the “Red-backed Diver,” and says : “Abundant at Isle de 
Rhonde Pond.” The bird is, however, this species which is here 
locally known as the “Red Diver.” 
The following references, therefore, should be placed under the 
synonymy of this duck : — 
Podiceps holboelli Wells, List birds Grenada, p. 12 (1886) ; Wells and 
Lawr., Proc. U. S. nat. mus., vol. 9, p. 633 (1886) ; Cory, Auk, vol. 5, p. 
156 (1888) ; Cory, Birds W. I., p. 281 (1889). 
Colymbus holboelli Cory, Auk, vol. 5, p. 156 (1888); Cory, Birds W. I., p. 
281 (1889) ; Cory, Cat. W. I. birds, pp. 81, 185 (1892). 
The nest is placed on the ground in swamps ; the eggs are six to 
ten in number, creamy white. 
Dendrocygna discolor Scl. and Salv. Tree Duck ; Whis¬ 
tling Duck. — On September 7, 1903, when in the woods about the 
upper reaches of Joe’s River, Barbados, I saw three of these ducks. 
They Hew by me several times, and finally alighted in a tree some 
distance off, but could not be approached near enough for a shot. 
My little black boy immediately recognized them as “ Coot.” A 
week later I shot one of these birds from the top of an immense silk- 
cotton tree in this vicinity, but was unable to find it. Col. Feilden 
writes that in September, 1887, a Hock of twenty-seven of these 
ducks appeared in Graeme Hall swamp, and that a wounded one 
was captured and taken to Dr. C. J. Manning, in whose aviary he 
saw it a year later, alive and well. 
