APPENDIX. 153 



White-throated Sparrow. — Contin. 



The typical songs of two Pacific coast cousins of the 

 white-throat are recorded in Zoe, vol. i., 1891, p. 72, by 

 C. A. Keeler. 



Gambel's White-okowned Spaeeow. Goldek-ceowned Spaekow. 



{Z. leucophrys gambeli.) (Z. Coronata.) 



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Morning Song. 



Mr. Horsford having given us an account of a morning 

 concert in New England, let us listen to a report of one in 

 the "gorgeous and sunny Jamaica " : — 



" In these excursions I was interested in marking the successive awak- 

 ening of the early birds. Passing through the wooded pastures and 

 Guinea-grass fields of the upland slopes, while the stars were twinkling 

 overhead ; while as yet no indication of day appeared over the dark moun- 

 tain-peak, no ruddy tinge streamed along the east ; while Venus was blaz- 

 ing like a lamp, and shedding as much light as a young moon, as she 

 climbed up the clear, dark heaven among her fellow-stars, — the night-jars 

 were unusually vociferous, uttering their singular note, ' wittawittawit,' 

 with pertinacious iteration, as they careered in great numbers, flying low, 

 as their voices clearly indicated, yet utterly indistinguishable to the sight 

 from the darkness of the sky across which they flitted in their triangular 

 traverses. Presently the flat-bill uttered his plaintive wail, occasionally 

 relieved by a note somewhat less mournful. When the advancing light 

 began to break over the black and frowning peaks, and "Venus waned, 

 the peadove from her neighboring wood commenced her fivefold coo, 

 hollow and moaning. Then the petchary, from the top of a tall cocoa- 

 palm, cackled his three or four rapid notes, " OP, PP, P, Q ; " and from 

 a distant wooded hill, as yet shrouded in darkness, proceeded the rich, 

 mellow, but broken song of the hopping-dick-thrush, closely resembling 

 that of our own blackbird. Now the whole east was ruddy. 



