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Olive-backed Thetjsh (Turdus olwaceus). Met with in 

 October, 1849, and at no other period. This thrush is not 

 described either by Wilson or Audubon, and appears to 

 have been overlooked by those celebrated ornithologists. 

 Gerard, in his account of the birds of Long Island, de- 

 scribes the species under the above name. ' 



MiGEATOEY Theush {Turdus migratorius). On the 13th 

 of March, 1850, I fell in with a small flock of these 

 thrushes ia a cedar grove, near Chief Justice Butterfield's 

 pond ; and the day following, a friend who resided near 

 the spot, sent me a fine specimen. Five years afterwards, 

 I received a specimen from Mr. Hodgson Smith, of Eiddle's 

 Bay; this was on the 29th of March, 1855. 



Cat Bied {Orpheus Carolmensis). This bird is very de- 

 structive to grapes, and feeds with avidity on the smaU 

 capsicum, or bird pepper, the most pungent of -its kind, 

 which it plucks and swallows entire. 



Yellow-ckowited Wood Waeblee (Sylvicola coronata). 

 Another specimen was obtained on the 5th of April, 1855, 

 and three others were found (April 30th, 1854), in a collec- 

 tion of skins prepared by Captain Tolcher (56th Eegiment), 

 who informed me that he shot them at Somerset from a 

 flock of those birds, which numbered upwards of a hun- 

 dred. The date of this occurrence I have omitted to make 

 note of. 



Ptne-ceebping Wood Waeblee (S. jpinus). On the 5th 

 of October, 1850, the night being very dark, with a pouring 

 rain, many of these birds were captured on the outer ledges 

 of the lantern of the lighthouse, on Gibb's Hill; one of 

 these I obtained. On the 15th of October, in the same year. 

 Captain Drummond observed from his quarters, at Ireland 



