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reddish-white, handsomely marked with spots and 

 angular clouds of red-brown, much resembling the 

 sinuous outline of land on a terrestrial globe. 



COMMON PETCHARY.* 

 Tyrannus caudifasciatus. D'ORBIGNY. 



D'ORBIGNY in the Ornithology of Ramon de la 

 Sagra's work on Cuba, has described and figured 

 this species, which in its appearance and manners 

 very much resembles the King-bird of the United 

 States, as it does also the preceding species. It 

 is, however, a permanent inhabitant of Jamaica. 

 In "Westmoreland and St. Elizabeth's, the name 

 Petchary is applied indifferently to this and the 

 grey species, as the equivalent term Pitirre, in 

 Cuba seems to indicate any species of Tyrannus. 

 Vieillot has described a closely allied bird, if not 

 identical with ours, by the name of Tyr. Pipiri. 

 But in the neighbourhood of Spanish Town, this 

 species is distinguished from the grey, to which 

 the name Petchary is there confined, by the term 

 Loggerhead, which, with us to leeward, is applied to 

 the rufous species, T. Crinitus. It is well to be 

 aware of this confusion of local names, or we may 



* Length 8^ inches, expanse 13, tail 3^, flexure 4, rictus l-^ tar- 

 sus 1, middle toe ^. 



Irides hazel. Intestine short, about 4 inches, caeca rudimentary: 

 stomach slightly muscular. 



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