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seen by us from October to April. If its migrations 

 be, as I have reason to think, not northward and 

 southward, but eastward and westward, this fact 

 is easily accounted for, from the greater nearness 

 of our part to Central America, where they pro- 

 bably winter. This species is found in St. Do- 

 mingo, but not, as it appears, in Cuba, where it 

 seems to be represented by T. Magnirostris, D'Orb. , 

 nor has it been recognised, except accidentall}^ , 

 in North America. Even its wintering about Span- 

 ish Town, seems to be not constant, for from com- 

 munications made to me by Mr. Hill, the present 

 spring, I infer none had been seen through the 

 winter. In Westmoreland, I observed the first 

 individual after the winter, on the oOth of March, 

 at the Short Cut of Paradise-morass ; and a day 

 or two afterwards they were numerous there, and 

 were advancing to the eastward. Yet on the 16th 

 of April, Mr. Hill writes me, *^ It is worth re- 

 marking that, although Grey Petcharies have been 

 several days now with you, they have not made their 

 appearance here yet." He adds the interesting 

 note, afforded by some friends who had in March 

 visited the Pedro kays, that " the Grey Petchary, 

 was seen making its traverse by those rocks," and 

 that " the migratory birds that visited those islets 

 came from the west and departed to the eastward, 

 or, as it was otherwise expressed, they came from 

 the Indian coast, and proceeded on to the coast 

 of Jamaica, coursing from southward and westward 

 to northward and eastward." The dispersion of 

 the arrived migrants along the groves of Jamaica, 



