APPENDIX. 365 



Descriptions of Supposed New Species of Birds 

 from the Island of Grenada, West Indies. 



19. Turdus Caribb&us. 



Male. Upper plumage dark-olive, with the forehead dull reddish- 

 brown ; tail dark brownish-olive ; quills dark-brown ; lower part of 

 throat, upper part of breast and sides, clear ash ; lower part of 

 breast, middle of abdomen, and under tail-coverts white ; upper part 

 of throat white, with distinct narrow stripes of ashy-brown ; the 

 under wing-coverts are pale cinnamon ; upper mandible blackish 

 for two-thirds its length, the end yellow ; the under is yellow, 

 with the base black ; tarsi and toes brown ; "iris red, naked skin 

 around the eye orange." 



Length (fresh), 9^ in. ; wing 5 ; tail, 4^ ; tarsus, 1 {\.. 



There are two specimens in the collection, both males ; the length 

 given of the other is 91 inches ; the tarsi are blackish-brown. 



Habitat, Grenada. Mr. Ober says : " Rather numerous, but shy." 

 Type in National Museum, Washington. 



Remarks. This species has a naked space around the eye, sim- 

 ilar to that of T. gymnopthalmus j but it is of larger dimensions 

 and differently colored from that species. The upper plumage of the 

 new bird is clear deep olive, not at all brownish as in the other ; the 

 under plumage is of a lighter ash, and has a much greater extent of 

 white ; the striations on the throat are darker and more clearly de- 

 fined. 



20. Thryothorus Grcnadcnsis. " God Bird." 



Female. Upper plumage of a rather bright ferruginous, a little 

 inclining to brownish on the head and hind neck, and brighter on 

 the rump ; lores whitish tinged with rufous ; a light rufous stripe 

 extends over the eye to the hind neck ; tail dull rufous, barred with 

 black ; the primary quills have their outer webs of a dull light rufous, 

 with broad black bars ; the inner webs are brownish-black ; the 

 wing-coverts and tertials are rufous with narrower black bars ; under 

 , wing-coverts pale rufous ; the throat is very pale rufous, inclining to 

 whitish ; the breast light rufous ; the middle of the abdomen is of 

 a rather paler shade ; the sides and under tail-coverts are of a bright 

 darker ferruginous ; the upper mandible brownish-black ; the under 

 pale yellow, dusky at the tip ; tarsi and toes hazel-brown. 



Length (fresh), 4f in. ; wing, 2}; tail, \\; tarsus, }; bill from 

 front, \\. 



