12 BIRDS OF JAMAICA. 



AliCBDINIDAB. 



True Kingfishers. 

 Megaceryle alcyon alcyon. (Linne). Belted Kingfisher, 



A common winter resident and migrant from eastern North America. 



PiCIDAB. 



Woodpeckers. 

 Sphyrapkus varms varius. (Linne). Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. 



A common winter resident and migrant from eastern North America. 

 Ceniurits radiolatus. (Wagler). Jamaican Woodpecker. 



Peculiar to Jamaica, and common in many places, it is, however, rather locally dis- 

 tributed. 



MiCEOPODrDAE. 



Swifts. 

 Wephoecetes niger jamaicensis. (Eidgway) . Jamaican Black Swift, . 



A common resident species, that breeds in the higher mountains. It may at times 

 however, be seen, circling in large, loose flocks over the lo^v lands. 



This form is not entirely confined to Jamaica, as the same sub-species occurs in Porto 

 Bico. 

 Streptoprocne lonaris pallidr.jrons. (Hartert). Antillean Collared Swift. 



This is a not uncommon resident species with much the same habits as the Black Swift. 

 This Swift also occurs in Cuba and the Isle of Pines, but the form found in Haiti is 

 different. 

 Tackornis phoenicobia phoenicobia. Gosse. Jamaican Palm Swift. 



A common resident species, that breeds in the palms. The same form also occurs in 

 Haiti, but differs from the birds of Cuba and the Isle of Pines, which belong to another 

 sub-species. 



Teochilidab. 



Humming Birds. 

 minima. (Linne). Vervain Humming Bird. 



A common resident species, peculiar to Jamaica. The only other species of the genus 

 is found in Haiti. 

 Anthracothorax mango. (Linne). Mango Humming Bird. 



This also is a common resident species peculiar to Jamaica.. 

 Aithurus polytmus. (Linne). Streamer-tailed Hummingbird. 



This conspicuous species, with its long graceful tail, and bright red bill, is very common 

 all over the southern slope of the island. 



The genua AUhurus, with its two species, is peculiar to Jamaica. 

 Aithurus scitulus. Brewster and Bangs. Black-biUed Streamer Tail. 



Pound on the northern slope of the island, this species can at once be told from A. 

 polytmus by its wholly black bill.It is also smaller and darker in colour.It appears to 

 be quite as abundant in its country as is A. polytmus on the south slope. 



CoTINGrDAB. 



Chatterers. 

 Hylonax validus. (Cabanis). Gosse's Flycatcher; Tom-fool. 



A monotypic genus peculiar to Jamaica. This bird is resident, and generaLy dis- 

 tributed on the wooded slo^ es of the mountains, but is nowhere common. 

 Platypiaris niyer. (Gmelin). Black Becard. Mountain Dick 



(female); Judy (male). 

 Peculiar to Jamaica, a resident and common locally in the higher \ arts of the island. 



Ttrannidab. 



Tyrant Birds. 

 Tyrannus dominicensis dominicensis. (Gmelin). Gray Kingbird.. 



A summer \i8itor to the Island, where it breeds, arriving in spring and departing m 

 autumn. It also breeds in the more northern Lesser Antilles, the other Greater Antilles, 

 and northward to the south-eastern United States, 

 Tolmarchus jamaicensis. (Chapman). Jamaican King Bird; Loggerhead, 



An abundant resident, peculiar to Jamaica. 

 Myiarchus stolidus. (Gosse), Stolid Flycatcher. 



