BIRDS IN JAMAICA. 
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cotton-tree sparrow; so alike in their 
musical calls, of four or five notes 
rapidly runningf up the scale and 
suddenly falling at the end, as to be 
scarcely distinguishable. These lower 
groves are also the resort of the hop- 
ping-Dick, and the red-eyed, white- 
eyed, and black-bellied flycatchers. 
From the green tussocks of the Gui- 
nea-2'rass fields rings out the curious, 
hollow-sounding voice of the tichiero 
{Cotumiculus texireus) ; while the 
banana-bird, bright in his plumage 
of white and yellow and black, and 
the blue quit, a soft sweet warbler, 
delight to dwell among the custard- 
apple and other fruit-trees. From 
the topmost twig of mango or orange 
tree, where he seems quite at home, 
drop the tiny, pearl-like notes of 
that fairy minstrel, who should have 
been Titania's own court musician, 
the tiny vervain humming-bird. 
THE MOCKING-BIRD. 
The mocking-bird, justly entitled 
" the nightingale of the Western 
World," prefei'S to build his nest in 
a lonely thorn bush, an orange or 
a cedar tree, or a tangled thicket ; 
but his range is wide — he does not 
confine himself so strictly as many 
birds do to a particular habitat. 
A warm climate, a low country, and 
the neighbourhood of the sea, Wilso 
BLACK-BELLIED FLYCATOHEa 
speaks of as most congenial to 
