256 PROCEEDINGS : BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
Col. Feilden says, speaking of this bird on Barbados: “ A rare visi¬ 
tor, though seldom a year passes without one being shot at Graeme 
Hall swamp. Mr. I. Tingling informed me that he saw one there in 
the autumn of 1887, and another on September 17, 1888.” 
Ober obtained this bird on St. Vincent, and there is an adult 
female in the British museum collection procured by Mr. G. Whit¬ 
field Smith on that island in 1889. 
Stercorarius crepidatus (Gmeh). Jaeger.— An adult 
female of this species with enlarged ovaries was brought to Col. 
Feilden alive on July 10. 1888, at Barbados. It had been caught 
by a fisherman with a hand-net. The bird was rather thin, but not 
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emaciated. 
Mr. M. J. Nicoll observed a bird of this species between St. Vin¬ 
cent and Carriacou on January 27, 1904. There are no other 
records. 
Larus atricilla Linn. Mauve ; Laughing Gull. — Specimens 
of this species from these islands are somewhat smaller than others 
from more northern points in its range; but as in many gulls, birds 
from the north average larger than examples from more southern 
localities. I have not considered it advisable to give it a subspecific 
name. 
The Laughing Gull is casual on Barbados. Col. Feilden has a 
specimen shot by Dr. Manning in the summer of 1887, and another 
killed on July 24, 1888. 
This bird is common along the shores of St. Vincent and Grenada, 
but in the former island is mainly confined to the Kingstown dis¬ 
trict. In Grenada one or two may usually be seen flying about the 
docks and wharves of St. George’s. 
In the Grenadines the Laughing Gull is common everywhere, 
particularly so about Carriacou, where it is seen in flocks of twenty 
or thirty. Wherever pelicans are feeding there are usually to be 
found a few birds of this species, watching for a chance to get a 
share of the larger birds’ meal, which they do by alighting on the 
latters’ heads and reaching down into their beaks. 
At Carriacou after a rain these birds frequent the pastures in 
numbers, particularly at Beausejour and Harvey Vale. They nest 
on the small islets about Carriacou, and rather generally on the 
more isolated keys all through the Grenadines. 
The eggs are three, sometimes four, dark buff, with blotches of 
brown, that sometimes form a ring about the larger end. 
