This is exclusively a mountain bird; inhabiting the very same localities, and subsisting on the same food as the Solitaire, presently to be described; the pulpy berries of a Scrophularious shrub, which the negroes thence call _Glass-eye berry_. I have never found any animal substance in the stomach of this species, numbers of which I have examined; one in December contained many of the little scarlet figs, from the tree on which I shot it: in February the green pimento-berries are devoured by them; and later in the spring, it appears, the shining fruit of the Sweetwood (_Laurus_) is attractive to them. On the 30th of March, my lad shot a male Glass-eye by the road-side at Cave, scarcely a stone’s throw from the sea, and level with it; the stomach contained the berries of this _Laurus_, which is abundant just there. This is the only instance in which I ever heard of the species, except in a mountain locality. The common names of this bird are bestowed in allusion to the tint of the iris of the eye: this, as Mr. Hill observes, “is not absolutely white, but so transparently suffused with a hue of olive, that the eye has the look of very common glass.” The figure, attitudes, and motions of the Glass-eye are those of its fellow, the Hopping Dick; it is, however, much more recluse, and jealous of being seen. The dashing manner of flight across the narrow wood-paths are the same in both birds, but the loud and startling tones of the lowland bird are wanting in this. The Glass-eye has but one note _that I have heard_; a single low “_quank_,” frequently repeated as he hops from bush to bush, or plunges into the thicket. Dr. Chamberlaine attributes to him “the same loud sonorous chirp as he stealthily scuds from one dark recess of the forest to another;” but I should think him mistaken, were it not that Robinson, who gives a very correct drawing of the species by the name of _Turdus capite ferrugineo_, and describes it as common in the Liguanea mountains, affirms that “it whistles like our English Blackbirds.” (MSS.) The Woodthrush of Wilson, (_Turdus mustelinus_, Gm.,) a delightful songster, is a regular annual visitor in the neighbourhood of Spanish Town, but I have not seen it. MOCKING BIRD.[30] “_Nightingale._” _Mimus polyglottus._ _Turdus polyglottus_, +Linn.+—Aud. pl. 21. _Mimus polyglottus_, +Boie.+ _Orpheus polyglottus_, +Sw.+ [30] Length 10 inches, expanse 13, flexure 4¹⁄₄, tail 4¹⁄₄, rictus 1, tarsus 1⁴⁄₁₀ middle toe 1. Intestine 8 inches, two minute, rudimentary cæca.