Transcriber’s Note: This is a companion book to “The Birds of Jamaica” ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BIRDS OF JAMAICA. BY PHILIP HENRY GOSSE. LONDON: JOHN VAN VOORST, 1, PATERNOSTER ROW. 1849. ADVERTISEMENT. When the following series of Ornithological Drawings was commenced, it was proposed that a figure should be given of each species described in the “Birds of Jamaica.” It was subsequently judged desirable to modify this plan, by omitting such species as had been well figured before, in works easily available to the British public. The plates, however, had been already numbered in agreement with the order in which the species are treated in the work above-named; and this order could not be changed: they are recommended to be arranged, when bound, as they are enumerated in the following table, the numbers being still successive, though not continuous. London, April, 1849. CONTENTS. Buteo borealis 2 Ephialtes grammicus 4 Nyctibius Jamaicensis 6 . . . . . pallidus 7 Acanthylis collaris? 8 Tachornis phœnicobia 9 Cypselus niger 10 Hirundo euchrysea 12 Todus viridis 14 Certhiola flaveola 16 . . . . . maritima 17 Lampornis mango 18 Trochilus polytmus (_male_) 19 . . . . . (_female_) 20 Mellisuga humilis 21 Trochilus Maria 22 Merula leucogenys 23 . . . . Jamaicensis 24 Seiurus Noveboracensis 28 Sylvicola pensilis 32 . . . . . eoa 34 . . . . . pannosa 37 . . . . . pharetra 38 Myiobius pallidus 40