CLARK: LESSER ANTILLEAN BIRDS 
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Tryngites subruficollis (Yieill.). Buff-breasted Sand¬ 
piper. — This bird is recorded as a rare visitor to Barbados. Col. 
Feilden has one obtained in the autumn of 1887, another on 
October 6, 1888, and a third about the year 1847. 
Actitis macularia (Linn.). Spotted Wag; Spotted Sand¬ 
piper. — Abundant throughout these islands, many remaining all 
the year. On Barbados it is especially common along the streams 
in the Scotland district. On Grenada and St. Vincent it follows up 
the water courses into the mountains, to the borders of the high 
woods and even beyond. 
Numenius hudsonicus Lath. Crook-billed Curlew; 
Woodcock; Hudsonian Curlew. — Rather uncommon, though 
regular migrant, arriving in the early part of August. It has not 
yet been recorded from St. Vincent. 
Numenius borealis (Forst.). Chittering Curlew; Eskimo 
Curlew. — Col. Feilden says: “Arrives about the end of August, 
but passes more frequently in September. The first I obtained in 
1888 was on September 5, when immense numbers passed over the 
island, though comparatively few alighted. The same day great 
Hocks of Golden Plover ( Charadrius dominions) and Long Legs 
(Totanus flavipes) arrived. I saw over a hundred of each of these 
species shot at one stand by a single gun.” Hughes (1750, p. 77) 
says: “These, as well as most Curlieus, often come in great hocks. 
They are next in bigness to the Crooked-billed Curlieu.” Both 
Hughes and Schomburgk (’48, p. 681) give this bird the local name 
of “ Shivering Curlew.” 
Wells says that at Carriacou and Grenada this curlew comes in 
with the plovers, but remains only a few days. On September 5, 
1904, I saw two birds of this species on a mudhat near Harvey 
Vale, Carriacou, in company with great numbers of Yellow-legs ( T. 
flavipes). These were the only examples I met with during my 
entire stay in the West Indies. 
The Eskimo Curlew has never been recorded from St. Vincent 
although it doubtless occurs there. 
Recurvirostra americana Gmel. American Avocet. — Col. 
Feilden says that Mr. Massiah informed him that he shot an Avocet 
at Valentia swamp in the autumn of 1880, and Mr. I. Tingling shot 
another on October 1, 1888, at Finney’s Hill, St. Philip’s, Barbados. 
Himantopus mexicanus (Mull.). Black-necked Stilt.— 
