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His manners are much like those of his cousin 

 Bessy, running along with much wagging of the 

 tail, and chirping tsip, tsip, incessantly. He is, 

 however, less aquatic in his predilections. I first 

 observed the species about the middle of Septem- 

 ber ; it was on a low part of the road by the side 

 of a morass. Its attitude struck me, as it was 

 running on the ground with the tail held almost 

 perpendicularly upwards. In the stomach, a mus- 

 cular gizzard, I have occasionally found various 

 seeds, gravel, mud-insects, caterpillars, and small 

 turbinate shells. I was one day amused by watch- 

 ing two, unassociated, walking about a place covered 

 with dry leaves, beneath some trees. I was unseen 

 by them, though quite close. The tail of each was 

 carried quite perpendicular as they walked, which 

 gave a most grotesque effect; but, as if this eleva- 

 tion were not sufficient, at almost every step they 

 jerked it up still higher, the white under-coverts 

 projecting in a puffy globose form. 



Though this species arrives in Jamaica rather 

 later than the preceding, they depart together, 

 about the 20th of April : and soon after this their 

 appearance in the United States is recorded. Un- 

 like the preceding, the present species is said to be, 

 even in summer, destitute of song. 



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