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reached St. Vincent, and reptiles were relatively much more 
numerous. 
Ober gives this bird as occurring on the Grenadines, but this 
must be a mistake, as except on Bequia and Mustique it is wholly 
unknown to the natives, nor could I find anv trace of it. 
In habits this species resembles B. platypterus. The nest is 
rather bulky, and is usually placed in a large tree, often a bread 
fruit or a cabbage palm. In the spring of 1903 there was a nest in 
one of these palms in the Botanic gardens at Kingstown, St. Vincent, 
from which young were successfully raised. The eggs are usually 
three in number, dull bluish white in color and are (in the six sets 
which I have examined, in the collection of the late Mr. John Grant 
Wells, now in the possession of Dr. Dunbar B. B. Hughes of Car- 
riacou) unspotted. I was informed by natives that this bird always 
lays unspotted eggs. 
Pandion haliaetus carolinensis (Gmel.). Sea Hawk; Fish 
Hawk. — Col. Feilden says of this bird in Barbados: “An irregu¬ 
lar and somewhat rare visitor in the fall. Several appeared during 
the month of October, 1887. One of these is preserved in the col¬ 
lection of Dr. C. J. Manning ; another, a female, shot about the 
same time, is in the possession of Mr. Herbert Hart. An adult 
male, shot at Graeme Hall swamp on September 28th, 1888, was 
forwarded to me in the flesh by Dr. Manning.” 
It occurs regularly as a visitor to St. Vincent, the Grenadines, 
and Grenada, arriving in August, although stray individuals are 
sometimes to be met with throughout the year. When I was stav¬ 
ing at Chateaubelair, St. Vincent, in October, 1903, there was a sin¬ 
gle individual of this species that could almost always be found 
about the mouth of the Richmond River. Mr. Thomas Huckerlw, 
the Wesleyan parson of the district, told me it had been there for 
about six months. At Union Island, Mr. L. McIntosh showed me 
the claws of eight or ten of these birds which he had shot there. 
I met with it myself among the Grenadines at Mustique, Bequia, 
Union Island, Prune, and Carriacou. > 
Regerhinus uncinatus (Cass.). Ring-necked Hawk. —This 
hawk is a resident in Grenada, but is not numerous. It is usuallv 
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found in the vicinity of the seacoast. 
