Finally, thirteen specimens were shot between April and July 1916 by bird collector W. W. Brown, Jr. Suddenly this bird was vanished and several surveys to find this species again have failed until zoologist C. Bernard Lewis observed one individual north of East End in the eastern of Grand Cayman in the summer of 1938. This was the last reliable report of a living Grand Cayman thrush.
This passage describes the decline and eventual extinction of the Grand Cayman thrush. It details how a bird collector shot thirteen specimens in 1916, but it vanished.  A zoologist later found one individual in 1938, marking the last confirmed sighting.