26 TURDID. 
Subfam. MIMINA. 
GALEOSCOPTES. 
Galeoscoptes, Cabanis, Mus. Hein. i. p. 82 (1851). (Type Muscicapa carolinensis, Linn.) 
The single species of this genus is a winter immigrant to Central America. In 
Mexico and Guatemala it is abundant, but, in the latter country, only in the eastern 
parts. Southwards of Guatemala it is by no means common; but it has been traced as 
1. Galeoscoptes carolinensis.” 
Musicapa carolinensis, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 328°. 
Turdus carolinensis, Licht. Preis-Verz. mex. Vég. (1830), ef. J. f. Orn. 1863, p. 57°. 
Mimus carolinensis, Scl. P. Z. 8. 1856, p. 294°. 
Galeoscoptes carolinensis, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 82*; Scl. P. Z.S. 1859, pp. 362”, 370°; Scl. & Salv. 
Ibis, 1859, p. 77; P.Z. 8. 1867, p. 278°, 1870, p. 836°; Baird, Rev. Am. B. p. 54°; Lawr. 
Ann. Lye. N.Y. ix. p. 204"; Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 544; Gundl. Orn. 
Cub. p. 59”; Baird, Brew. & Ridgw. N. Am. B.i. p. 52; Merrill, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1. 
p. 120”. 
Mimus (Galeoscoptes) carolinensis, Coues, B. Col. Vall. i. p. 56”. 
far as Panama. 
Plumbeus ; subtus dilutior, pileo et cauda nigris; crisso ferrugineo; rostro nigro, pedibus brunneis. Long. tota 
7-7, ale 3-6, caude 3°8, rostri a rictu -9, tarsil-1. (Descr. maris ex Belize, Brit. Honduras. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. N. America, north to Lake Winnipeg and west to the head of the Columbia river 
and the Cascade Mountains", Texas &.— Muxico, Cordova (Sallé*), Jalapa* (de Oca*), 
Totontepec and Playa Vicente (Boucard ®), Orizaba (Sumichrast 1"), Mirador (Sar- 
torius 1°), Merida, Yucatan (Schott }!); Guaremata, Coban, Choctum, Rio de la 
Pasion, Cahabon, Barranco Hondo (0. S. & F. D. G.); British Honpuras, Belize 
(O. 8.7); Honpuras, San Pedro (G. M Whitely®); Nicaracua, Blewfield’s River 
(Wicklam®); Panama, Frijole Station (If*Leannan !°).—Cusa 3; Banamas "4. 
The Cat-bird, by which name Galeoscoptes carolinensis is familiarly known in the 
United States, is a winter visitant to Mexico and Central America, retiring northwards 
in the summer to breed. Though found over a wide extent of country during the 
winter months, it is by no means universally distributed, as we have hardly a trace of 
its occurrence on the Pacific side of any portion of the country of which we are now 
treating. In Mexico it has been only found in the south-eastern parts of the country, 
in the State of Vera Cruz and on the borders of the State of Oaxaca; but it is absent 
from the whole Pacific side from Mazatlan to Tehuantepec. Present apparently in 
some numbers in Yucatan, it is found near Belize and on the shores of the Gulf of 
Honduras to Omoa and San Pedro. Further in the interior it spreads over the forest 
