Sir W. Jardine on the Ornithologij of the Island of Tobago. 329 



Mimus gilvus, Vieill. (Mocking-bird.) s. 



Apparently a common species on the island and the only one 

 found in Tobago. From Jamaica again we receive the North 

 American species, which seems to take its place there, and ac- 

 cording to Mr. Gosse it is common and probably not migratory, 

 as it is stated to be vocal at all seasons. " Frequents our dwell- 

 ings and builds on fences, &c. It is to be heard every morning 

 at the very earliest dawn of day by those who have trees around 

 their dwellings pouring forth the sweetest notes imaginable, 

 resembling the mavis, although imitating the most of our feathered 

 tribes. They may be easily tamed, and hop along the ground with 

 the rapidity of the magpie in quest of food, which is grasshoppers 

 and worms." 



Turdus jamaicensis, Linn. (Mavis.) s. 



Utters "a ' chuck chuck ' while hopping along the ground, is 

 particularly shy and restless, feeds upon small berries and upon 

 the seeds of the cabbage -tree." 



Turdus xanthoscelus, Jard. (Black yellow-legged Thrush.) 



" Remarkably shy: a rich mellow note all this month (April) and 

 until July." This species we have been unable to find described 

 or to see in any collection, and three specimens only have been 

 received. The skin of the male somewhat stretched is 9y^, 

 though perhaps from 81 to 9 inches will be nearer the natural 

 dimensions. Length of wing to end of longest feather 41. The 

 plumage is of a uniform black ; the feathers of the vent and 

 under tail-covers tipped with grayish white ; bill and legs have 

 been bright yellow. The female is above of a dull olive or oil 

 green, beneath paler and more tinted with ochraceous, the chin 

 indistinctly striated with a darker shade ; the under wing-covers 

 and axillary feathers ochraceous ; bill and legs brownish yellow, 

 apparently not so brilliant as in the male. A young male has 

 many of the feathers tipped with a triangular spot of yellowish 

 brown, and according to age would be no doubt more or less 

 thus marked. 



Tyrannus crudelis, Swain, n. 



" A native : begin to build about the 1st of April. On pulling 

 down a decayed building some time ago originally constructed 

 of common pine, in which the carpenter-bee had constructed 

 thousands of cells, and which on being disturbed literally covered 

 the place like the casting of bees in Europe, I was amusing my- 

 self looking at the workmen and the bees over my head, when 

 suddenly my attention was drawn to an adjoining roof, where the 

 shrill voice of some twenty or thirty Tyrants bursting forth si- 

 multaneously showed that their harvest was already begun. I 



