86 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



MIMOCICHLA RUBRIPES CORYI (Sharpe). 

 CAYMAN BRAC THRUSH. 



Similar to M. r, ruhripes, })iit smaller, with larger bill and relatively 

 shorter tail; bill light brown (reddish in life?) instead of black or 

 dusky; upper parts lighter slate-gray; lores and suborbital region 

 dusky gray instead of blackish; white terminal spaces of outer rec- 

 trices smaller, and ochraceous-buff of abdomen either paler or less 

 extended. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 240-260 (250); wing, 116.5-130 

 (123.2); tail, 109.5-115.5 (112.5); exposed culmen, 23-27 (25); tar- 

 sus, 34-38.5 (36.2); middle toe, 21.5-22 (21.7).° 



Adult female. — Length (skin), 235; wing, 120.5; tail, 110.5; 

 exposed culmen, 23.5; tarsus, 35; middle toe, 21.5.^ 



Island of Cayman Brae (south of Cuba) , Greater Antilles. 



Mimocichla ruhripes (not Turdns mbripes Temminck) Cory, Auk, vi, 1889, 31 



(Cayman Brae). 

 Mimocichla coryi Sharpe, in Seebohm's Monogr. Turdidte, ii, 1902, 212 (Cayman 



Brae I., south of Cuba; coll.?). 

 [Mimocichla] coryi Sharpe, Hand-list, iv, 1903, 116. 



MIMOCICHLA RUBRIPES SCHISTACEA (Baird). 

 SLATE-COLORED THRUSH. 



Similar to M. r. ruhripes, but without any ochraceous-buff on under 

 parts, or else this greatly reduced in extent and much paler (buff or 

 pinkish buff), the under parts of the body in typical examples entirely 

 plain slate-gray except extreme posterior part of flanks and abdomen, 

 which are white, like the under tail-coverts; thighs light slate-gray; 

 bill reddish (brownish in dried skins), rarely, if ever, blackish. 



Adult maZe.— Length (skins), 250-271* (260); wing, 120.5-137 

 (129.1); tail, 105-126.5 (118); exposed culmen, 22-26 (24.1); tarsus, 

 36.5-40 (38); middle toe, 22-24.5 (23. 3). '^ 



Adult female. —Length (skins), 240-254 (248); wing, 111-127 

 (118.3); tail, 98-117 (109.9); exposed culmen, 22.5-26 (21.8); tarsus, 

 33.5-37 (35.6); middle toe, 20.5-24 (22).^' 



Island of Cuba (eastern portion). Greater Antilles. 



Mimocichla schistacea Baird, Review Am. Birds, July, 1864, 37 (Monte Verde, 

 e. Cuba; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.).— Gundlach, Journ. fur Orn., 1871, 293 (Cuba); 

 1872, 407 (crit., etc.); Orn. Cubana, 1893, 50.— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 5; Birds 

 West Ind., 1889, 19; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 19, 122, 129, 157. 



[Mimocichla] schistacea Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885, 5.— Sharpe, Hand-list, 

 iv, 1903, 116. 



[Mimns] schistacea Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 203, no. 3842. 



Mimocichla ruhripes (not Turdus mbripes Temminck) Seebohm, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., V, 1881, 283, part (in synonymy). 



o Two specimens. c Eleven specimens. 



b One specimen. d Ten specimens. 



