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mon. Mr. Taylor tells me that he has never seen them alive, and that 

 there are but few specimens in the collection of the Jamaica Institute. 

 For a more detailed account of the economy of the species the reader is 

 referred to Gosse, 'Birds of Jamaica,' p. 263, where the species is referred 

 to as C.Jiaviventer. 



123. Ara tricolor {Bec/is(.)'i — There seems to be little doubt that a 

 species of Ara has occurred on the island. It is the general opinion of 

 some of the most intelligent native hunters that I talked with that a large 

 red Parrot has been shot on the island, and that it still occurs at times. 

 This last seems to me very doubtful. Mr. Taylor writes: "Jamaican ex- 

 amples not seen. All the domesticated birds I have seen appear to have 

 been brought over from Cuba." The reader is further referred to the 

 Gosse, 'Birds of Jamaica,' pp. 260-263, where a most detailed account of 

 the occurrence of a species o^ Ara on the island is given. 



(yTo be cofitintied.) 



SUMMER BIRDS OF THE CREST OF THE PENN- 

 SYLVANIA ALLEGHANIES. 



BY JONATHAN DWIGHT, JR. 



Various observers in the Virginias and the Carolinas have 

 aheady called attention to the distinctly Canadian tinge of the 

 fauna on the higher mountains of the Appalachian system, but 

 until recently there has been little to shov\^ that like conditions 

 prevail at much lower altitudes in the State of Pennsylvania. 

 The present paper not only proves this most conclusively, as re 

 gards the bird life, but also brings together for the first time 

 in a list those birds that make their summer home in the moun- 

 tain region of the vState. It is the outcome of two brief visits 

 made at the height of the breeding: season to some of the more 

 elevated portions of the mountains. 



The first occupied a period from June 18 to June 35, 1S90, the 

 localities visited being the vicinity of Altoona in Blair County 

 and that of Cresson in Cambria County, at which latter place 

 most of my time was passed. The second occupied from June 

 10 to 17, 1891, and this time portions of Luzerne, Sullivan, and 



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