Vo '- x ~| Scott on the Birds of Jamaica. 



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OBSERVATIONS ON THE BIRDS OF JAMAICA, 

 WEST INDIES. 



BY W. E. D. SCOTT. 



II. A LIST OF THE BIRDS RECORDED FROM THE ISLAND, WITH 

 ANNOTATIONS. 



(Continued fr 07n Vol. ZX, p. 375.) 



147. Hadrostomus niger (Gmel.). Black Shrike. Judy. Mountain- 

 dick— Said to be common above three thousand feet in the mountain 

 districts. Not observed during my stay on the island. 



148. Tyrannusdominicensis (GmeL). Gray Kingbird. — Apparently 

 a migratory species, leaving the island during the winter months. The 

 majority pass through the island, but many remain to breed. 



149. Pitangus caudifasciatus (D'Orb.). Common Petchary. 

 p IPIRI . — Very abundant at most points which were visited. This was 

 particularly noticeable in the regions near the sea level. Above fifteen 

 hundred feet elevation, at least in the winter, they were not nearly so 

 common, but Gosse ('Birds of Jamaica,' p. 178) says that he has observed 

 them at Bluefields Peaks. At Priestman's River, on February I4> these 

 birds were generally building nests, and the breeding season was fairly 

 begun. 



150. Myiarchus validus (Cab.). Tom-fool— This does not seem to 

 be a very common species, and I did not meet with it, except on two occa- 

 sions, below twelve hundred feet above the sea. At Stony Hill it was 

 more common than at any other point visited, but even here it was among 

 the rarer birds. In general habits and appearance it reminds one very 

 much of Myiarchus crinitus. 



151. Myiarchus stolidus (Gosse). Little Tom-fool. — Commoner than 

 M. validus, and much more generally distributed. Though met with 

 more commonly at Stony Hill than at other points, yet a few were 

 noted at all places visited, though in the immediate vicinity of the sea 

 I did not find them. Gosse does not seem to have been acquainted with 

 M. validus, and speaks of this species only in a general way. According 

 to him it breeds in hollow stumps, about the last of June or in early July, 

 as young were taken from such a location, grown so as to be recognized, in 

 August ('Birds of Jamaica,' pp. 168-169). 



152. Blacicus barbirostris (Swains.). Flat-bill. — This was the com- 

 monest Flvcatcher observed at Stony Hill, and was an abundant bird at 

 that point. At Boston, near Priestman's River, though seen several times. 

 it was not nearly so abundant as at the higher altitude of Stony Hill. 

 The breeding season had not begun, nor was it imminent, when I left the 

 island. 



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