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THE AUK: 



A Q^UARTERLY JOURNAL OF 



ORNITHOLOGY. 



VOL. VIII. July, 1891. No. 3. 



OBSERVATIONS ON THE BIRDS OF JAMAICA, 

 WEST INDIES. 



I. NOTES ON THE HABITS OF THE YELLOW-BILLED TROPIC 



BIRD {^Pha'vthoii flavlrostris^ . 



BY W. E. D. SCOTT. 



In beginning a scries of papers for this journal, recording tlie 

 results of some observations carried on while in the Island of 

 Jamaica, West Indies, during the past winter, I wish to publicl}' 

 acknowledge my indebtedness and to express my thanks for the 

 many comtesies extended to me by the following gentlemen : His 

 Excellency Sir Henry A. Blake, K. C. M. G., Governor of the 

 Island; the Hon. Neale Porter, Colonial Secretary, etc., etc. ; the 

 Hon. James Allwood, Under Colonial Secretary, etc., etc. ; 

 the Hon. Valentine G. Bell, C. E., Director of Public Works; 

 the Hon. W. Bancroft Espeut, of Portland, and the Hon. W. Faw- 

 cett, B. Sc, F. L. S., Director of Public Gardens and Plantations. 

 To Oscar Marescaux, Esq., of Kingston, and Robert B. Camp- 

 bell, Esq., Superintendent of the Jamaica Railway, and partic- 

 ularly to Frederic Wesson, Esq., of New York City, I am under 

 special obligation. 



