He is Sir Oracle, and no dog must bark in his neighbourhood.” I have not observed in the vicinity of Bluefields, the predilection alluded to by my friend of this bird for the Palm-tribe. Several pairs have nested under my notice, but none of them were in palm-trees. Of two which I procured for examination, one was from an upper limb of a bitterwood-tree, of no great height, close to a friend’s door. It was a cup made of the stalks and tendrils of either a small passion-flower or a bryony, the spiral tendrils prettily arranged round the edge, and was very neatly and thickly lined with black horse-hair. It contained three young, newly hatched, and thinly clothed with a buff-coloured down, and one egg. The other was from a hog-plum (_Spondias_). It was a rather loose structure, smaller and less compact, composed almost entirely of tendrils, which gave it a crisped appearance; a few stalks entered into the frame, but there was no horse-hair within; but one or two of the shining black frond-ribs of a fern, scarcely thicker than hair. The eggs, three in number, were round-oval, 1 inch by ³⁄₄; dull reddish-white, handsomely marked with spots and angular clouds of red-brown, much resembling the sinuous outline of land on a terrestrial globe. COMMON PETCHARY.[49] _Tyrannus caudifasciatus._—+D’Orbigny.+ [49] Length 8³⁄₄ inches, expanse 13, tail 3⁴⁄₁₀, flexure 4¹⁄₈, rictus 1⁷⁄₂₀, tarsus 1, middle toe ⁸⁄₁₀. Irides hazel. Intestine short, about 4¹⁄₂ inches, cæca rudimentary: stomach slightly muscular. D’Orbigny in the Ornithology of Ramon de la Sagra’s work on Cuba, has described and figured this species, which in its appearance and manners very much resembles the King-bird of the United States, as it does also the preceding species. It is, however, a permanent inhabitant of Jamaica. In Westmoreland and St. Elizabeth’s, the name Petchary is applied indifferently to this and the grey species, as the equivalent term _Pitirre_, in Cuba seems to indicate any species of _Tyrannus_. Vieillot has described a closely allied bird, if not identical with ours, by the name of _Tyr. Pipiri_. But in the neighbourhood of Spanish Town, this species is distinguished from the grey, to which the name Petchary is there confined, by the term Loggerhead, which, with us to leeward, is applied to the rufous species, _T. Crinitus_. It is well to be aware of this confusion of local names, or we may be liable to predicate of one species, what is true only of another.