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middle, and greater wing-coverts with terminal wedge-shaped spots 

 of buff or pale ochraceous; gray on outer webs of middle reetrices 

 tinged with olive; lores and suborbital region dusky, not black; 

 throat white, broadly streaked with black; upper chest mostly plain 

 dull slate-gray, lower chest similar but intermixed with buff and 

 spotted with dusky, the breast whitish with small transverse spots of 

 dusky; abdomen, thighs, and hinder flanks pale ochraceous-buft" ; 

 under tail-coverts white. 



Island of Cuba (western portion), Greater Antilles. 



Turdus rubripes Temminck, PI. Col., ii, livr. 69, Oct., 1826, pi. 409 (Cuba; coll. 

 Mus. Leiden). — Vigors, Zool. Joiim., iii, 1827, 439. — D'Orbiony, in La 

 Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois., 1839, 48, pi. 4. — Gundlach, Journ. Bost. Soc. 

 N. H., vi, 1852, 318. 



[Mimus] rubripes Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 276. — Gr.\y, Hand-list, i, 1869, 

 263, no. 3841. 



G[alenscoptes] rubripes Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1850, 82, footnote; Journ. fiir Orn., 

 1855, 470. 



Galeoscoptes rubripes Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 336 (monogr.); Cat. 

 Am. Birds, 1862, 6.— Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1860, 307.— Gund- 

 lach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 406 (Cuba). 



[Galeoscoptes] rubripes Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 324 (Cuba). 



Mimocichla rubripes Baird, Review Am. Birds, July, 1864, 38. — Gundlach, Journ. 

 fur Orn., 1872, 406 (Cuba; habits); Orn. Cubana, 1893, 49.— Seebohm, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., v, 1881, 283, part (excl. syn. M. schistacea Baird). — Cory, 

 Auk, iii, 1886, 5; Birds West Ind., 1889, 19; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 19, 

 122, part (Cuba; Isle of Pines; Little Cayman). — Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. 

 N. H., iv, 1892, 312 (near Trinidad, Cuba; habits). 



[Miinodchla] rubripes SchATER and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 2. — Cory, List 

 Birds West Ind., 1885, 5.— Sharpe, Hand-list, iv, 1903, 115. 



Mimocichla rubripes rubripes Bangs and Zappey, Am. Nat., xxxix, no. 460, Apr., 

 1905, 208 (Isle of Pines; habits; crit.). 



MIMOCICHLA RUBRIPES EREMITA Ridgway. 

 SWAN ISLAND THRUSH. 



Similar to M. r. ruhrij^es, but averaging larger, with shorter toes, 

 and white of chin and malar region usually more extended. 

 ' Adult ma?e.— Length (skins), 254-277 (261); wing, 121.5-130.5 

 (127.6); tail, 116.5-127.5 (119.6); exposed culmen, 22.5-27.5 (24.7); 

 tarsus, 35-38 (36.1); middle toe, 20-22 (20.9).« 



Swan Island, Caribbean Sea. 



Mimocichla rubripes (not Turdus rubripes Temminck) Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. 



Mus., X, 1887, 575 (Swan Island, Caribbean Sea; crit.). — Cory, Cat. West 



Ind. Birds, 1892, 19, 122, part (Swan Island). 

 Mim.ocichla rubripes eremita Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xviii, Oct. 17, 1905, 



113 (Swan Island, Caribbean Sea; coll. TJ. S. Nat. Mus.). 



a Seven specimens.' (No adult female seen.) 



