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Dendroica eoa, D. pharetra and D. palmarum, I hare never met with. 



33. Seiurus aurocapillus. 34. Seiurus noveboracensis. These two species 

 are regular annual visitors. On the 5th of August, 1862, I found a pair of the 

 last named species at the river side, near Spanish Town, but they generally 

 arrive at the end of that month or in the beginning of September and depart in 

 the early part of April. 



Mr. Hill has the drawing of a third species with the plumage of the S. 

 aurocapillus, but without the fulvous crown. 



42. . This is another of Mr. Hill's beautiful drawings, a 



pair of Creepers, with a nest, taken near Spanish Town. The nest is a dome, 

 like those of the Certhiola fiaveola that are elaborately covered with down. 

 I have never met with this species. 



VIREONIDjE. 



53. Vireo altiloquus. {Vireosylva olivacea, Gosse.) From early in March 

 till, October, the Tom Kelly abounds, but is rare during the winter months. 

 Nests are found from April till August. It is a neat cup suspended be- 

 tween two twigs or a fork, 3 inches across, and rather more than 2 deep on 

 the outside and 1 within ; constructed of grass intermixed with down, webs, 

 tendrils, fibre, grass and leaves, but always lined with grass or fibre, generally 

 that of the root of the trailing Cereus. The eggs are two or three, oval, 

 pointed, some rather elongated, measuring f by of an inch ; porphyry- white 

 with a few reddish dots and points sparely scattered about it, some have 

 large dots about the larger end. Their song is of these notes : ' ' tchew-tchew 

 it," several times repeated ; this is its matin hymn, at other times varied 

 with " tchew-it-tchew-ee-tchew-ee-tchew-it." 



52. Vireo modestus. ( Vireo noveboracensis, Gosse. ) This, though a perma- 

 nent resident, is not so common as the Tom Kelly. The nest is very frail and 

 slightly made, suspended from a fork or two near twigs, composed of horse hair, 

 fibre, fine grass, and the flower stalks of grass, the wall so thin that the eggs 

 are easily seen through it. These are generally two, rarely three in number ; 

 porphyry- white, splashed with fine reddish dots and points and measure 

 13-16ths by 9-16ths of an inch. The note of this species is at times a wailing 

 cry, resembling somewhat the mewing of a cat. 



193. We have another Vireo very similar to this, but with its irides 

 reddish. 



Mr. Hill has recognized the Vireo gilvus on the railway line between 

 Spanish Town and Kingston. 



AMPELID^E. 



54. Ampelis cedrorum. (A. carolinensis, Gosse.) The Cedar bird is not a 

 constant visitor, several years intervening between the periods of their advent ; 

 they, however, when they do come, generally appear in considerable num- 

 bers, remaining only for a few days. I have only met with them twice, but I 

 have no note of the dates. 



55. Myiadestes armillatus. (Ptiliogonys, Gosse.) The Solitaire is entirely 

 restricted to the dense highland woods ; it is at times very common about the 

 woods, above New Castle, in Port Royal Mountains, and along the ridges be- 

 tween that parish and St. George's, as well as about Abbey Green, one of the 

 approaches to the Blue Mountains. I have never seen the nest or eggs. A 

 Maroon, from Moore Town, once told me he had met with a nest, and that it is 

 like a small calabash, made of stems of bind weed, (trailing plants), and 

 thatch fibre and trash, and that the eggs were greenish with brown spots. 



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