82 Sir W. Jardine on the Ornithology of the Island of Tobago, 



distinct towards the lower part of the breast, where they are lost. 

 Entire length from ^f^ to 8y\ inches ; of bill about 1/^ j of wing 

 in all 4-j^2 • ^^^ specimen 8 1 wing Sy^^ • 



SiTTASOMUS GRISEUS, Javd. S. 



" Resident ; this bird is said to be hitherto entirely unknown 

 in Tobago, hence it has no provincial name, but finding it to cor- 

 respond exactly with Wilson's Brown Creeper so far as regards 

 manners, I have applied that name to it/^ Above grayish oil- 

 green ; scapulars, rump and tail brownish orange. Below gray- 

 ish oil-green, under wing- covers, base of the secondaries and 

 part of the inner webs of the last quills yellowish white. Lengths 

 of three specimens 7, Q^-^, 5y^^ inches ; wing of two first Z^^ ; 

 of last 3y^5^. 



Thryothorus striolatus, Sivain. (Wood Wren^ or Gray-throat 

 Wood Wren.) s. 



" This species has a lively and powerful whistle, pronounced 

 distinctly and with great emphasis, running over the notes in a 

 shrill voice often repeated. Feeds on spiders, &c. This bird 

 long remained unobserved by me ; my attention was arrested by 

 his sprightly notes, and I am inclined to think that frequent ex- 

 cursions in the woods about the season of incubation might be 

 the means of eliciting some new species, which at other seasons 

 remain mute and unobserved from the extreme height of the trees 

 as well as the thick foliage and impenetrable nature of our under- 

 woods.^' 



To the last three or four birds the name ^' Woodpecker '' or 

 " Creeper " seems commonly applied in Tobago, though they 

 are known to be a form quite different from the true Woodpeckers 

 to be after noticed. 



Troglodytes furva, Vieill. (God Almighty Bird or Wren.) s. 



"This is a beautiful warbler; so domestic, that it builds in 

 general either inside our dwelling-houses or somewhere in the 

 vicinity, makes a coarse nest lined inside with feathers and lays four 

 eggs. Remarkable for its cleanly habits — carries all the excre- 

 ments of its young out of doors ; feeds upon insects, and is by 

 nature all the year what the European robin is by necessity in 

 winter, making our houses its constant home. It darts with ra- 

 pidity on the most venomous insects — a first attack separates the 

 tail of the scorpion from the body, then both portions are carried 

 in triumph to feed its young. I have often when writing been 

 so annoyed with this little warbler pouring forth his song upon 

 a chair-back within 10 feet of my desk as to be obliged to expel 

 him from the house^ which is not easily done, especially if they 



