CLARK: LESSER ANTILLEAN BIRDS. 
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India regiment told Col. Feilden that lie saw one captured by some 
boys with a dog in the swamp below St. Ann’s fort in the same 
month and year. 
This bird is rare on St. Vincent, but may sometimes be found in 
the vicinity of Arnos Vale and Calliaqua. It is common on Grenada 
and the Grenadines wherever there are swamps. On some of the 
smaller islands it is very abundant, as at Isle Ronde and Mabouya, 
where the natives catch it in fish pots baited with corn. They also 
hunt out and destroy numbers of nests every year, because they say 
it destroys their growing corn, climbing up the stalks and tearing to 
pieces the ears. 
The nest is placed on the ground in swamps, and is composed of 
grass and weeds. The eggs are from six to ten, creamy white, 
finely dotted with umber. 
Gallinula galeata (Licht.). Red Seal Coot ; Waterfowl; 
Florida Gallinule. — Col. Feilden says, speaking of Barbados: 
“Resident. A few still lingered in Graeme Hall swamp in 1888, 
from whence I obtained a nest with seven eggs in the month of 
July, when I fully identified the bird. It used to be plentiful at 
several spots in the island, particularly so at Valentia swamp, and 
at a pond on the Three Houses estate, but has been exterminated, I 
think, in those places.” 
A few of these birds may be found about Calliaqua, St. Vincent, 
but they are far from common. 
On Bequia they are sometimes to be found about the roots of the 
mangroves on the Spring estate beach. At Mustique they are 
abundant on the large pond near Mr. Wallace’s house. They occur 
on Canouan, on Mayreau, on the Tobago Keys, on Union Island, and 
are especially abundant on Carriacou and on Isle Ronde. 
On Grenada they are common everywhere among the mangroves, 
being particularly numerous about Lake Antoine. They are often 
seen in the harbor of St. George’s, about the mangroves in the quiet 
lagoon across from the town. 
The nest is like that of Ionornis martinica, and is placed on the 
ground in swamps. The eggs are from six to ten, light buff spotted 
with brown. 
Fulica caribaea 1 Ridgw. White Seal Coot; Waterfowl; 
1 I have thought it best to refer the Coot of these islands to this form, 
although no specimens were obtained. 
