other French iſlands; but the traffic was put a ſtop to by the Legiſlature of Dominica, who, by an Act made for apprehending runaway negroes, prohibited the taking of thoſe birds: as before that time, the runaways being numerous in the woods, furniſhed great quantities of them, for which they had in return, from ſome ill-diſpoſed white people, muſkets, powder, and balls; which they made uſe of in murdering the Engliſh inhabitants on the plantations.
The mountain whiſtler is of the ſize of an Engliſh lark, and is remarkable only for its loud charming whiſtle, which reſembles the human voice in the melodious notes; but which this bird varies in a moſt aſtoniſhing manner.
The thruſh is nearly the ſize of that in England, and has much the ſame kind of
