presence known by a song, which is more remarkable for variety than for sweetness. For its 

 roosting place it usually selects the small palm trees, which grow in damp situations, where the 

 arrival of each additional member of the flock is greeted with a cackling, which does not cease 

 until darkness sets in. M. Leotaud adds that the gourmands of Trinidad highly appreciate 

 this Thrush, particularly at the season when it feeds on certain aromatic berries. 



Tardus gymnophthalmus may be readily distinguished from all its congeners in America, 

 by the broad naked skin round the eye, which, in life, is of a bright yellow. Hence its trivial 

 name in Trinidad is " Le Grive & pauptires jaimes." 



Our figure of this Thrush is taken from a Venezuelan specimen in Sclater's collection. 



Januaet, 1869. 







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