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OBSERVATIONS ON THE BIRDS OF JAMAICA, 

 WEST INDIES. 



11. A IJSr OF rilK BIRDS RECORDED FROM HIE ISLAND, WIIU 

 ANNOTATIONS. 



BY W. E. D. SCOTT. 



The PURPOSE of the following list is to show as concisely as 

 possible the actual species that are known to have occurrecl on 

 the island of Jamaica, with some account of their habits and dis- 

 tribution, time of appearance if mioratory, and place and time 

 of breeding. During the short time, five months, that I spent on 

 the island, I was able to gather much useful information, but 

 this alone would have been quite inadequate to the purpose of 

 this paper, and I am much indebted to a number of gentlemen of 

 Jamaica for information, both written and verbal, which will be 

 duly indicated where data so obtained are used. 



To Mr. Charles B. Taylor of Rae Town, Kingston, Jamaica, 

 who was for a time the acting curator for the Department of 

 Zoology of the Jamaica Institute of Kingston, lam under great 

 obligation for manuscript notes, the records of his own observa- 

 tions. I shall have frequently to quote these and shall refer to 

 them without further comment as Mr. Taylor's notes. 



Having had little time or facility for the study of the water 

 birds, especially such as are migratory, I am obliged to use 

 information already published, in order to make this list as 

 complete as possible. At the same time care has been taken to 

 exclude all species from the list save those that have been abso- 

 lutely recorded from the island. 



I. Podilymbus podiceps {^Linit.). Pied-billed Grebe. — This is a 

 resident on tlie island and both Pliilip Henry Gosse, Esq., and the hite 

 Riciiard Mill, Esq., of Spanishtown speak of it as '■'Podilymbus carolinoi- 

 .</.■;.?" or "Black-throated Grebe." Mr. Hill found the bird not rare on 

 the River Cobre, but dc^es not state at what season of the year he ob- 

 served it. 



The only individual that I met with during the past winter was taken 

 on a small pond near Priestmans River, Portland Parish, on the 23d Jan- 



