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migration would probably bring many stragglers from the continent, tliat 

 do not make a longer stay than a few days. 



" It is only a matter of regret with me that I could not give the requi- 

 site time to this island during the ' winter months '. I am satisfied^ 

 however, that the few resident species are now fully known. 



"FEEDERICK A. OBER. 



" My thanks are due to Wm. Sharpe, Esq., Wm. Simmons, Esq., Dr. 

 WeUs, Canon Bond of St. Andrews and John Grant Wells, Esq., for 

 courtesies shown me." 



Fam. TURDID^. 



1. Turdus nigrirostris Lawr. 



"Thrush ('Grive'). 



" Length, c? , 9 in. ; alar extent, 15|: ; wing, 5. 



" Leng-th, 9 , 9 in. ; alar extent, 14i ; wing, 4f . 



" In the deep woods one may be startled by a low note of alarm from 

 this bird, like the single cluck of the Mocking-bird of the Southern 

 States. Searching carefully, you may discover the author of it sitting 

 upon a low tree, with head protruded, eagerly examining the surround- 

 ings for the cause of the noise your coming makes. Discovering you, it 

 hastily makes off, ynth a parting chick. Its song is often heard in the 

 high woods, strange notes, ' fee-ow, fee-oo,' etc., often repeated. Anothex 

 cry it has when alighting and unexpectedly discovering your presence, 

 similar to the cry of the Eobin as heard at evening time in spring — n 

 harsh cry mingled with softer notes. I have only found it in the high 

 forests. It must be well along in the nesting period, judging from the 

 condition of those dissected." 



I was much pleased to find four specimens of this species in the col- 

 lection, as but one was obtained in St. Vincent, and that had the plum- 

 age somewhat soiled. These are in good condition and more mature: 

 they have the color of the throat as originally described, /. c, the feathers 

 of a dull white, with shaft-stripes of brown ; there are no rufous tenni- 

 nations to the wing-coverts, as in the St. Vincent specimen ; and the 

 irregidar rufous-brown markings on the upper part of the breast, as 

 seen in that, are only just perceptible in two of the specimens : they have 

 the breast and flanks of a darker shade of brown : the bills of these are 

 not so dark throughout as in the type — shading into brown on their ter- 

 minal halves : this difterence of color is doubtless atti'ibutable to age. 



2. Turdus carribaeus, Lawr. Ann. N. Y. Acad, of Sci. vol. 1, p. IGO. 



" Thrush. 



"Length, 9^ in.; alar extent, 15^; wing, H. 



"Iris wine-red; naked skin around the eye, | mch wide, yellow; 

 beak oUve-green, tipped with yellow. I am positive that I heard this 

 bird in St. Vincent, but only once, and (li<l not obtain, or even fairly see 

 it. Its cry is peciUiar, and once heard could not be mistaken. Itresem- 



