BIBDS OEI JAMAICA. 



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River, (for the account of which see Gosse), until quite recently it has worked 

 eastwaid to Old Harbour, Trelawny, and aven as far as Half-way Tree and King- 

 ston Harbour. < 



The Jamaican bird has been named by Sharpe— Sycalisjamaicae, but upon comparing 

 ten fine aduHs in the Museum ol Comparative Zoology, from Jamaica, with South Ameri- 

 can material, we aie unable to verify the characters claimed by Sharpe for the island 

 bird, or to find any others by which to sej.arate it. In our opinion it has not changed 

 since its introduction into Jamaica. 

 Ammodrarmis savannarum savannarum. (Gmslin) Jamaican Yellow-winged Sparrow. 



Grass Pink. 

 A sub-species resident in and pecuUar to Jamaica. It is found in open fields and pas- 

 tures, and, though common in ceitain places, is local in its distribution. 

 Spiza americana. (Gmelin). Dickcissel. 



An accidental \isitor during migration. Recorded only by Dr. Field, who writes 

 that "Mr. Lindell of Congreve Park in April, 1889, saw two large flocks" from which 

 "he shot many individuals; discovering that they were of some species unknown to him, 

 he made and preserved several skins. One of these he gave to me for identification. 

 It proved to be the Dickcissel." 



8UUMABT. 



Of the above 219 species and sub-species recorded as occurring or having oc- 

 curred in Jamaica, 26 are doubtiul records or escapes from captivity; 3 are introduced 

 and naturalized species; 81 are migrants or winter visitors from the north; 5 are summer 

 visitors only, breeding, but migrating south in autumn; 52 are resident breeding species 

 not who lly confined to the island; and the following 52, including one Family — (Euneor- 

 nidae) — and eleven Genera (Oeotrygon, Pseudoscops Siphonorhia, Aithums, Hylonax, 

 Haplocichla, LcUetes, Euneornis, Neospsar, Pyrrhuphonia and Loxipasser) are peculiar 

 to Jamaica, of which five species are now believ ed to be extinct. 



Pterodroma jamaicensis. (Bancroft.) 

 Ballus longirostris caribaeus. Ridgway. 



Oeotrygon versicolor. (Lafresnaye). 



LeptoHla jamaicensis jamaicensis. (Linne). 

 Chaemepelia passerina jamaicensis. (Maynard). 

 Zenaida 7 plumbea. Gosse. 

 Chhroenas caribaea. (Jaquin). 

 Chloroenas inornata exigua. Ridgway. 



Ara gossei. Rothschitd. 

 Ara erythrocephala. Rothschild 

 Eupsitttda nana, (yxgora). 

 Amazona agilis. (Linne). 

 Amatona collaria (Linne) 

 Saurothera vetula. (Linne). 

 Hyetornis pluvialis. (Gmelin). 

 Pseudoscops grammicus. (Gosse). 

 NyctiHus griseus jamaicensis. (Gmelin). 

 Siphoru/rhis americana. (Linne). 

 Todua todvs. (linne). 

 Centurus radiolatus. (Wagler). 

 Mellisuga minima. (Linne). 

 Anlhracotfiorax mango. (Linne). 

 AitkuTv^ polytmus. (linne). 

 Aithurus seittdus. Brewster and Bangs. 

 Hylonax validits. (Cabauis). 

 PMypsaris niger. (Gmelin). 



ToVnuwchvs jamaicensis. (Chapman). 

 Myiarchus stolidus. (Gosse). 

 Myiarchug barbirostris. (Swainaon). 



Blue Mountain Duck. 

 Jamaican Clapper Rail; Man- 



giove Hen. 

 Crested Quail Dove; Mountain 



Witch. 

 White-bellied Dove. 

 Jamaican Giound Dove. 

 Blue Partridge. 

 Ring-tailed Kgeon. 

 Jamaican FlSiiu Pigeon; Blue 



Pigeon. 

 Gosse's Macaw. 

 Red-headed Green Macaw. 

 Jamaican Paroquet. 

 Black-billed Parrot. 

 Yellow-billed Parrot. 

 Jamaican lizard-cuckoo ; 

 Rain Bird, Old Man Bird. 

 Jamaican Eared OaI, 

 Jamaican Potoo. 

 Jamaican Goatsucker. 

 Jamaican Tody. 

 Jamaican Woodpecker. 

 Vervain Hummingbird. 

 Mango Hummingbird. 

 Streamer-tailed hummingbird. 

 Black-billed Streamer-tail. 

 Gosse'a Flycatcher. 

 Black Becard; Mountain Dick; 



Judy. 

 Jamaican Petchaiy. 

 Stolid Flycatcher; 

 Sad Flycatchei, 



