250 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
Arenaria interpres (Linn.). Rock Plover; Calico-bird; 
Turnstone.— Common on all these islands, arriving in August, 
although individuals may he found at all seasons. They frequent 
the beaches and the more open parts of the mangrove swamps, 
running about between the roots of the mangroves after the man¬ 
ner of the Sora (Porzana Carolina). It is in this latter situation 
that they are usually met with in spring and summer, when they 
are remarkably tame. 
During the migrations they occur in Hocks of sometimes as many 
as thirty or forty individuals; but in the spring and summer they 
are usually found in the swamps in companies of five or six. 
The adults in the rufous plumage are the first to arrive, while the 
immature follow in September. 
G-allinago delicata (Ord). Wilson’s Snipe. — Col. Feilden 
says that this bird is a regular autumnal visitor, sometimes in con¬ 
siderable numbers, to Barbados. Mr. Massiah has shot as many as 
ten couples in a day at Chancery Lane, and Col. Feilden lias shot 
them there himself in the months of September, October, and No¬ 
vember. 
From Hughes’ (1750, p. 78) description of the habits of the 
“Hiding Mopus ” and the measurements he gives for that bird it 
seems probable he refers to this species. The other “Mopuses” 
appear to be two of the smaller shore birds. The name is not at 
present applied to any bird at Barbados. 
On Grenada and the Grenadines, this is a rather uncommon 
migrant, arriving in October and November. It frequents the 
swampy lowlands near the sea. 
The Snipe has so far not been recorded from the island of St. 
Vincent, but it probably occurs there as a rare visitor. The 
absence of swamps possibly accounts for its never having been 
obtained there. 
Macrorhamphus griseus (Gmel.). Duck-leg; Duck-bill; 
Dowitcher.— Col. Feilden says : “Though a regular, is somewhat 
of a rare visitor, appearing along with flights of Yellow Legs 
( Tot anus flavijjes) in August and September. It is, however, suf¬ 
ficiently numerous to be given a local name by the Barbadian 
sportsman.” 
Mr. G. Whitfield Smith has obtained this bird in Grenada and 
his specimens are now in the British museum. 
