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in May so common were they. March 

 26th at Aguadita they were again 

 abundant at 6450 feet. April 1st I 

 noted many flocks at El Roble at 7850 

 feet and on April 6th a single one was 

 observed on the paramo near Sibate 

 at 8800 ft. 



Yellow Palm Warbler. January 13th 

 a single specimen seen at Kingston, 

 Jamaica. 



Prairie Warbler. Several seen at 

 Kingston, January 13th. 



Louisiana Water Thrush. The first 

 one was noted on the Magdalena at 

 Puerto Berrio on January 30th. On 

 March 11th 1 found a single individ- 

 ual at Villavincencio This bird was 

 feeding along the banks of the same 

 little stream where the two Black Poll 

 warblers were shot. Another was seen 

 on March 14th at Buenavista at 4400 

 ft. and another at Fusugasuga at 7500 

 ft. en March 24th. 



Mourning Warbler. January 30th, 

 Puerto Berrio, a single bird was taken. 

 Two more were shot at Villavicencio, 

 one on March 11th and one on the 

 12th. At Fusugasuga two were noted 

 at 6000 ft. on March 22d and 24th. 



Maryland Yellow-throat. Several 

 seen in the Botanical gardens at 

 Kingston, Jamaica on January 13th. 



Canadian Warbler. Consuelo Febru- 

 ary 6th, 4000 ft. at Aguadita, 6450 ft 

 a male specimen was taken. This bird 

 was the usual yellow on the breast, 

 but the black wreath was just making 

 its appearance. On March 27th, sev- 

 eral were seen in the same locality, 

 one a male in full spring plumage. All 

 of the Canadians were noted in heavy 

 woods traveling in company with other 

 warblers and especially with the lit- 

 tle Yellow, blue-black and rufus crown- 

 ed "Redstarts," of Colombia. 



American Redstart. January 13th, 

 single at Kingston, Jamaica. March 

 11th and 12th they were abundant at 

 Villavicencio at 2000 ft. A few were 



also seen at Santa Marta on April 

 29th. 



Grey-Cheeked Thrush. Only one 

 specimen noted. This bird was taken 

 in the forest above Consuelo at about 

 4 00 ft. 



Olive-backed Thrush. February 6th, 

 Consuelo, 4000 ft. Single in woods. 

 March 14th, Buenavista, 4400 ft. Two 

 seen in very deep woods. These two 

 birds were feeding about damp places 

 in the forest. March 24th, on the hills 

 above Fusugasuga at an altitude of 

 7500 ft. a pair were noted. March 26th 

 at Aguadita a single in an open wood 

 at 6450 feet. March 27th, several more 

 were noted in heavy woods in the 

 same locality and altitude. Three 

 were noted late the same day in the 

 same location. These were probably 

 the same birds as they do not move 

 very far in a day. The last one was 

 noted on April 3d at El Roble 7850 

 feet. The bird was in open cover close 

 to a heavy forest where such birds as 

 Tucans and calistes abound. It was 

 a strange combination and novel ex- 

 perience to see the Olive-backed 

 almost side by side with typical birds 

 thrush cf the northern states feeding 

 of the tropics. It strikes one as be- 

 ing more like a zoological garden than 

 nature in its natural state, just as it 

 was hundreds of years ago. 



It is interesting to note these rec- 

 ords of the Olive-backed Thrush in 

 connection with my article on the mi- 

 gration of this species in THE OOLO- 

 GIST for September, 1914. Had I 

 possessed the above data at the time 

 of writing that article, the winter range 

 shown on my map might have been ex- 

 tended to Colombia. 



In order that the location of the 

 places mentioned in this paper may 

 be more thoroughly understood I give 

 an outline of the trip from start to 

 finish, naming each locality in the ord- 

 er visited. 



