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The big "Banyan" Tree (it spreads about 150 feet 
and its foliage closely resembles that of our Live Oak) was 
alive with birds and they were also numerous throughout 
the Park as well as in the neighboring private gardens. I 
saw and fully identified one Mniotilta varia (female), 
a dozen or more Setophaga ruticilla , several Coereba , 
numerous Buethia bicolor , three Vireo calidris , and one 
Bellona ? (the only Hummer). There was also a 
beautiful male Sparrow Hawk (Falco ?) with only a slight 
tinge of rufous on the faintly barred tail, conspicuous 
black cheek markings, and pure white under parts heavily 
streaked longitudinally with blackish. It made several 
unsuccessful dashes at the smaller birds and perched once 
on the terminal spike of a Royal Palm, 
Vireo calidris was singing at intervals through 
the day. Its song is very like our Red-eye’s but more 
disjointed or less flowing and an occasional note has a 
wild ring that recalled the voice of our solitarius . Its 
call note is also much like that of Vireo olivaceus but 
shorter and harsher. 
The Grass Quits ( Buethia ) chirp like Sparrows 
and make a peculiar zee~-e which reminded me of the sound 
