SIBDS OP JAMAICA. 13 



A resident species, peculiar to Jamaica, not uncommon locally. Its favourite haunts 

 apparently are the upper edges of the mangrove swamps where they Join the upland. 

 Myiarchus barKrostris. (Swainson). Sad Flycatcher. 



Common resident species, peculiar to Jamaica. 

 Placiciis pallidus. (Gosse). Jamaican Wood Pewee. 



A resident species peculiar to the island. Not uncommon; usually to be found at 

 the edges of clearings on the moimtain sides. 

 Elaenia jallax. (Sclater). Jamaican Elaenia. 



Resident and i eouliar to Jamaica, but a decidedly uncommon species. 

 Myiopagis colta. (Gosse). Cotta Fly-snapper. 



An uncommon resident species, peculiar to the island. 



MiMIDAD. 



Thrashers; Mockingbirds. 

 Mimus polygluttos orpheus. (Linne). Jamaican Mockingbird. 



This species, which is a very abundant resident in Jamaica, is not peculiar to the 

 island, but occurs also in most of the other Gi eater Antilles. 

 Mfirmis gwndlachii hillii. (March). Hill's Mockingbird. 



This sub-si ecies is a resident peculiar to Jamaica, and we believe is extraordinarily 

 local in its distribution, recorded only from a small area of dry limestone, overgrown 

 with cacti and agaves, on the south side of the island, known as the Healthshire Hills. 



TUBDIAE. 



Thrushes. 

 Myadestes solitaniis. Baird. Jamaican SoUtaire. 



The Solitaire, which is resident and not uncommon, occurs only at the higher aliitudes 

 in the mountains, usually not lower than where the tree-ferns begin. It is a wonderful 

 songster, more often heard than seen. 



The species is not strictly confined to Jamaica, the same form ocouning in the western 

 part of Haiti. 

 Haplocichla awanlia. (Gmelin). White-chinned Thrush; Hopping 



Dick. 

 A monotypic genus confined to Jamaica, rather common, found chiefly on the fore- 

 sted mountain sides. 

 Planesticua jamaicensis. (Gmelin). White-eyed Thrush: Shine eye; 



Glass eye. 

 This species is resident and peculiar to Jamaica. It is not uncommon in the thicker 

 forest, but is shy and retiring and seldom seen. 

 [Hylocichla mustelina. (Gmelin). Wood Thrush 



The only record we find for this species for the island is the very unsatisfactory one 

 made by Gosse, Ivho wiites of it as "A regular winter visitor in the neighborhood of 

 Spanish Town, but I have not seen it. " March has suggested that the Wood Thrush 

 thus referred to by Gosse -was Hill's Mocking Bird.] 



CORVrDAE. 



Crows; Jays. 

 [Cyanocorax chrysops. (Vieillot). Black-headed Jay. 



This South American species was included by Gosse in his Birds of Jamaica on the 

 strength of an individual caught alive by a negro near Newcastle. The bird was with- 

 out much doubt an escape from captivity.] 

 Corviis jamaicensis. Gmelin. Jamaican Crow. Jabbering Crow. 



Peculiar to Jamaica, a resident, and found only in the wilder parts of the mountains. 



ViBEONIDAE. 



J Vireos. 



LdeUss oslurni. Sclater. Osbum's Vireo. " 



A monotyjiic genus peculiar to Jamaica; it is found locally in the mountain forest, 

 but appears to be a far from common species. 

 Yireo modestus. Sclater. Jmaican Vireo; Sewy Sewy, 



Common resident, peculiar to the Island. 



