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Mr. P. R. Lowe on Birds collected 
which I consider to be undoubtedly a good and very 
constant subspecies and similar to the bird found in Jamaica, 
the black of the under parts in adult birds ending abruptly 
on the lower part of the chest or in the middle of the breast. 
Six males which I obtained on the islands of Grenada and 
St. Vincent agree exactly with those from Barbados and 
must be undoubtedly referred to the same subspecies. 
Island of St. Vincent. 
Leaving Barbados on Dec. 12th, we arrived here the 
same day and stayed until Dec. 19th. 
Chrysotis guildingi (Vig.). 
This magnificent Parrot still occurs in sufficient numbers 
on the island to make its preservation a matter of certainty 
if proper care is exercised. Several large flocks are known 
to exist, and 1 was informed by the Revenue Officer at 
Chateau-Belair that they regularly came down to his garden 
among the hills to feed. The effect of the recent eruption 
must have been moderate in regard to its extinction. 
Strangely enough, although a large number of birds are 
strictly preserved on the island, this species remains un¬ 
protected. 
Mviadestes sibilans Lawr. “ Souffriere Bird.” 
This bird was also reported to have been wiped out by the 
eruption. I was told, however, that for days after that 
calamity it was both seen and heard in numbers round 
Chateau-Belair and that it then gradually disappeared, 
having apparently gone back to the mountains. This species 
is not nearly so rare, I believe, as some would have us 
suppose. It lives in the “ high woods” and is very retiring 
and “skulking” in its habits, so, as no one dreams of 
climbing to the densely-wooded mountain-tops without some 
very good reason, very little is known about it. 
In times gone by the Negroes, or rather the Caribs, had a 
superstitious dread of the bird, and did not dream of killing 
it. It used to be very common in and around the Souffriere 
and there never could have been such difficulty in obtaining 
specimens as one might gather from Mr. ObePs accounts. 
