298 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
thrush that I know. The cry of the young of both this and the 
preceding is like that of the young of the Robin. 
Its song is a continuous repetition of the syllables, “ John Pierre 
oh, John Pierre oh, mi yes, mi yes , mi yes,” with the stress on 
“ Pierre ” and “ mi, ” with a peculiar intonation, suggesting that of 
the Scarlet Tanager ( Piranga erythromelas). 
The nest resembles that of the preceding species, and is generally 
placed in a tree with dark foliage. The eggs are, as in case of the 
preceding bird, three in number, dull green spotted with reddish 
brown, the spots being rather larger than in the eggs of M. gym- 
nophthalma. 
Myadestes sibilans (Lawr.). Soufriere-bird. — Lister says: 
“ I met with this interesting bird on the Soufri^re, and in every part 
of the high woods that I explored. Its song, which causes even 
those who care little for bird music to pause and listen, appears to 
be similar to that of a closely allied species, so well described by 
Mr. Gosse in his account of the birds of Jamaica. During the 
month of August I noticed that the birds did not sing their full 
song, but after giving a few notes would stop and give utterance to 
a harsh note, which reminded me of the discordant one which occurs 
in the song of the Greenfinch (. Ligurinus clitoris').” 
Mr. George Durrant, of Georgetown, St. Vincent, who is well 
acquainted with this species, tells me the song resembles the sylla¬ 
bles : “ I cook' my rice !, I put' it out', flam!, flam, flam !. ” 
Although commonly supposed on St. Vincent to have been con¬ 
fined to the Soufri&re, this bird occurred on all the higher ridges of 
the island. Mr. G. Whitfield Smith, who has taken many of them, 
tells me that they were particularly numerous on and about the sum¬ 
mit of Mt. St. Andrew. I found no trace of it. 
Cinclocerthia ruficauda tenebrosa Ridgw. Trembleur. 
— Ober says of this bird: a Not so abundant as in the woods of 
Dominica, but still plentiful.” Lister writes : “Not uncommon in 
the high woods. I never saw one on cleared land.” I failed to 
find this bird, but it may still exist in certain remote localities. 
Cinclocerthia sp. Quaking Thrush. — Ligon (1763, p. 60, 
“Thrush”; 1764, p. 101, “Grive”), Hughes (1750, p. 72, “The 
Quaking Thrush”), and Schomburgk (’48, p. 681, “ Turdusjamai- 
censis ”), give a bird evidently of this genus as occurring on Bar¬ 
bados. 
