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Bulletin of the British 
kinds by the hurricane of September 1898 had been very 
great. A small bronze-green Humming-bird, which had 
before been the commonest and boldest bird in the island, 
had, it was believed, entirely disappeared. During the seven 
weeks of Mr. Dasent's stay be had not noticed one of these 
birds, though on previous visits they w r ere to be seen, sitting 
on telephone wires &c., and as plentiful as Swallows in 
summer in England. Mr. Thompson, the Administrator, 
had told him that since the hurricane he had neither himself, 
nor had he met with anyone who had, observed one of these 
birds. Two other Humming-birds, formerly less common 
than the extinguished species, still existed in the island, but 
in much reduced numbers. 
A Parrot, usually to be found only with difficulty in the 
mountain forests, and a Pigeon (known locally as “ Ra¬ 
inier ”)—also an exceptionally shy bird—after the hurricane 
came about, and even into, the towns in search of food, in 
large numbers (the Parrots singly, the Pigeons in small 
parties), many of them in such an exhausted state as to be 
easily caught by hand. 
Mr. Sclater called attention to the Report of the Society 
for the Protection of Birds (of which he was one of the 
Vice-Presidents) as adopted at the Anniversary Meeting on 
26th February last. Mr. Sclater was quite in accord with 
the general objects of this Society as explained in their 
prospectus, although, as regards protective legislation, he was 
of opinion that interference in this matter by Acts of Parlia¬ 
ment might be sometimes carried too far. He thought, 
however, that every lover of birds would do well to join the 
Society. 
Mr. Sclater stated that Messrs. Goodfellow and Hamilton 
(who were present as guests on this occasion) had lately 
returned from a successful expedition in the Colombian and 
Equatorian Andes, during which they had made a collection 
of upwards of 5000 bird-skins, comprising examples of many 
rare species. The travellers had landed at Buenaventura on 
the Pacific coast in April 1898, and had thence crossed the 
