260 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
his note of the size is very close, and he noticed the exclusively 
arboreal habits of the birds. There is no other pigeon or dove of 
this nature which could reasonably be supposed to have been an 
annual visitor to Barbados. 
The Ramier is not rare in the high woods of St. Vincent (to 
which part of the island it is confined), and is common at the 
higher altitudes of Grenada and on all the Grenadines. On these 
latter islands it occurs at all points, even among the low bushes 
along the seashore. Ramier are particularly abundant on Prune 
Island, the "Tobago Ive} 7 s, the western end of Petit Martinique, and 
on Church Rock, between Battowia and Balliceaux. Their num¬ 
bers have of late years seriously diminished on the small islands, 
probably on account of their not being given sufficient protection 
during the breeding season. They nest from the latter part of 
May until August, mostly on the smaller key's. After the 
breeding season they disappear almost entirely from the Grena¬ 
dines, but return the following May. 
This is the chief game bird of these islands, and is much hunted. 
The Tight is rapid and powerful, and the birds regularly cross over 
from one island to another to feed, returning at night to roost on 
the smaller keys. Formerly numbers could be shot any evening 
about four o’clock from Clifton House, Union Island, as they bew 
from that island over to Prune to spend the night. They could be 
obtained at Hermitage House, Carriacou, in the same manner, as 
they bew past, going to one or other of the small keys near by. 
Dr. Dunbar B. B. Hughes, the district medical officer at Carria¬ 
cou, told me that in the spring of 1904 he shot a pure white bird of 
this species on one of the small islets near that island. At about 
the same time there was another, largely mixed with white, on 
Canouan, but it was very wary and nobody succeeded in killing it. 
During the recent eruptions of the Soufri&re on St. Vincent, 
large bocks of Ramier visited Grenada, probably from that island, 
but subsequently disappeared. 
The nest is a loose structure, usually placed rather high. The 
eggs are two, white, much like those of the Domestic Pigeon. 
Zenaida zenaida aurita (Temm.). Wood Dove; Bequia 
Dove; Tourterelle; Seaside Dove. — The Wood Dove is 
common on Barbados in places where it is accorded protection, 
notably in the grounds of Codrington college, the grounds of Gov- 
