248 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
Poule de l’eau.— Col. Feilden records this species as a resident 
in Barbados as late as 1888. Mr. A. M. McLean told him that 
about twenty-five years ago the Water Hen and Coot were both 
abundant at Graeme Hall swamp, and it was no uncommon sight to 
see twenty or thirty of both species swimming about together in the 
open water. The cutting down of the brush about Valentia swamp 
a few years ago banished them from there, and it is probably no 
longer a resident of the island. 
I did not meet with this bird on Si. Vincent, but Lister says : “ I 
think this bird is only an accidental visitor to the island. An indi¬ 
vidual of this species was captured alive in an exhausted condition 
after a severe gale, in Brabon Bay by a Mr. Nevison, who kindly 
sent it to me.” 
On the Grenadines the White Seal Coot is common at Mustique, 
Mayreau, and Union Island, occurs at Canouan, and is abundant at 
Carriacou and at Isle Ronde. It is common in all the large swamps 
on Grenada, and is found on the Grand Etang Lake and on Lake 
Antoine. 
Vanellus vanellus (Linn.). Lapwing.— Col. Feilden writes : 
“ Dr. C. J. Manning has in his aviary a live Lapwing which was shot 
at and injured in one wing on December 24, 1886, in the island of 
Barbados. This bird has been in confinement eighteen months 
when I saw it, and appeared to be quite healthy.” Mr. J. H. Flem¬ 
ing (Auk, vol. 18, p. 272, 1901) records this species from the 
Bahamas. 
Squatarola squatarola (Linn.). White-tailed Plover; 
Black-bellied Plover; Gray Plover; Loggerhead. — Col. 
Feilden says : “This is a rather rare autumnal visitor (to Barbados), 
in some years none alighting; it generally arrives after the Golden 
Plover, toward the close of the shooting season; it hardly ever set¬ 
tles in the pastures, or by the decoy ponds, but on the rocky shores, 
where it consorts with Ringed Plovers, Turnstones and Sanderlings. 
I procured a specimen on September 22, 1888.” Wells says that 
small numbers arrive in Carriacou in September and October. 
It is recorded from Grenada, but thus far has not been obtained 
on St. Vincent, although it probably visits that island, as well as 
most of the Grenadines. 
Charadrius dominicus Mull. Golden Plover. — Col. Feilden 
says : “ Stragglers arrive (at Barbados) as early as July and the 
