1 18 Sir W. Jardine on the Ornithology of the Island of Tobago. 



and upon the crown streaked along the shafts with umber brown. 

 Mr. Kirk's note accompanying this : " The only one with the top 

 that has been met with here, though this island possesses several 

 somewhat similar. I shot this far in the interior of the woods, 

 Weight three lbs. imperial ; eyes dark blue ; cannot say what 

 sex." 



Falco columbarius, Linn. n. 



" Chicken Hawks, very daring birds," is the only observation 

 we have upon this bird, although from the number of specimens 

 received we should judge it to be a common species, specimens 

 of both sexes in mature, immature and intermediate plumage 

 having been sent. This bird is a northern species and is the 

 representing form in America of the European Merlin. The 

 F. cesalon of the Northern Zoology and F. temerarius of Audu- 

 bon are both referable to the American bird, which seems also to 

 range far to the southward, although we are not aware whether it 

 reaches the main land parallel with Tobago. We possess a spe- 

 cimen from the island of Jamaica. 

 • 



Otus americanus, Bonap. n. s. 



(( Native. Seldom or never come to the civilized part of the 

 country, their food being found chiefly towards the interior or 

 about the skirts of the woods. The stomach contained the bones 

 and bristles of a large musk rat. Weight (a male) nine oz. im^ 

 perial." 



Of Insessorial birds we shall find a large proportional number. 



PODAGER NACUNDA, Vieill. S. 



We have only received one specimen of this curious form, and 

 would request Mr, Kirk's attention to its habits. It is known by 

 the figure of Temminck under the name of Caprimulgus diurnuSy 

 by which it is also mentioned in the 'Travels' of Prince Neuwied, 

 who met with it in Brazil. Said to frequent open plains rather 

 than the vicinity of woods, and to feed at an earlier period of 

 the evening than the true night-hawks, whence Temminck derived 

 his name. 



Mr.' Kirk observes : — <e Large Jumbic bird, male, shot in a low- 

 lying situation at the leeward of the island on the 19th Septem- 

 ber 1833, They are migratory, arriving with or before the plover, 

 making their stay a little longer ; only to be found in the west 

 end of the island." 



Chordeiles labeculatus, Jard. s. 

 A single specimen only of this small Chordeiles was received, 

 and we have been unable to refer it to any figure or description, 



