on the Birds of St. Croix. 
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houses. For about one week at the end of April 1857, they 
were extremely numerous; but in 1858 the greater part of them 
left in March, though one was seen May 1st. A male, killed 
March 17th, 1858, in plumage almost resembled the female. In 
the same year it was first observed September 6th, on its return 
from its summer quarters. 
19. Long-billed Greenlet. Vireosylvia altiloqua , VieilL 
Ois. de FAm. Sept. pi. 38. Vireo longirostris, Sw. Faun. Bor.- 
Am. ii. p. 237; Cassin, Ill. N. Am. Birds, i. pi. 37. 
Extremely local, though common in the southern part of the 
island, where it breeds; but whether it is resident all the year 
may be doubted. The clear whistle of this bird appears to have 
always been confounded by the inhabitants with that of the 
Cichlherminia fuscata , which it does somewhat resemble. Mr. 
Gosse remarks (B. Jam. p. 195) of the species, which he calls 
V. olivacea , that he can scarcely understand how its note can be 
written “ Whip-tom-kelly” as it has been by some American orni¬ 
thologists ; but it appears much more likely that his " Jolm-to- 
whit” is not the true V. olivacea, but the present bird, first 
figured byVieillot, and afterwards described as new by Mr. 
Swainson (locis citatis) : at least, the call-note of the St. Croix 
species would seem to resemble closely that of the Jamaica bird, 
whose habits Mr. Gosse so well describes. It is probable, too, 
that the true V. olivacea is also found in Jamaica in winter; and 
thus may be reconciled the otherwise conflicting statements of 
authors. 
"On June 5th, 1858, I watched a bird of this species to its 
nest in a Manchioneel, to the leafy part of a bough of which it 
was suspended. It is a beautiful structure, shaped like an in¬ 
verted cone, and composed outwardly of dried blades of grass, 
dead leaves, and wool, woven round the twigs, to which it was 
attached, with spiders' webs, lined inside with finer blades of 
grass, and about three inches and a half in diameter and five in 
height. The eggs, three in number, are white, with a few black 
spots of different sizes chiefly dispersed about the larger end. 
Both nest and eggs call to mind those of the Golden Oriole 
(Oriolus galbula, L.), which, except in size, they greatly re¬ 
semble."—E. N. 
