84 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Turdus plambeus Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xi, 1866, 68 (Bahamas). 



Mimocichla plumbea Baird, Review Am. Birds, July, 1864, 36 (Nassau, New Provi- 

 dence, Bahamas). — Cory, Birds Bahama I., 1880, 45, pi. 11; Auk, iii, 1886, 

 6; Birds West Ind., 1889, 20; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 19, 122, 127 (Gt. 

 Bahama, Abaco, Eleuthera, New Providence, and Andros islands, Bahamas); 

 Auk, viii, 1891, 294 (New Providence), 298 (Abaco), 350 (Great Bahama; 

 Abaco), 351 (Eleuthera).— Northrop, Auk, viii, 1891, 66 (Andros I.).— 

 RiDGWAY, Auk, viii, 1891, 333 (Abaco), 335 (New Providence), 336 (Eleu- 

 thera). — Bangs, Auk, xvii, 1900, 289 (New Providence; descr. young). — 

 BoNHOTE, Ibis, 1903, 276 (New Providence and Little Abaco islands; hab- 

 its).— Allen (G. M.), Auk, xxii, 1905, 132 (Little Abaco; Great Abaco). 



[Mimocichla] plumbea Sclater and Salvin, Norn. Av. Neotr., 1873, 2.— Cory, 

 List Birds West Ind., 1885, 5.— Sharpe, Hand-list, iv, 1903, 116. 



Mimocitta plumbea Newton, Ibis, 1866, 121, in text. 



[Mimus] plumbeus Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 263, no. 3843. 



Mimus rubripes (not Turdus rubripes Temminck) Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N.H., 

 vii, 1859, 114 (New Providence I.). — Albrecht, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 52 

 (Bahamas). 



Mimocichla bryanti Seebohm, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., v, 1881, 280 {=^Turdus plum- 

 beus Linnaeus). 



MIMOCICHLA RUBRIPES RUBRIPES (Temminck). 

 RED-LEGGED THRUSH. 



Adult male. — Above plain slate color (or between slate color and 

 slat^-gray), the wings and tail black with bluish slate-gray edgings 

 (paler on primaries) ; lateral rectrices extensively white terminally, 

 the outer web grayish terminally passing into white at tip; four 

 middle rectrices entirely black except basal portion of outer web, 

 which is slate-gray; lores and suborbital region black, passing into 

 slate color on auricular region; sides of neck, chest, breast, and ante- 

 rior portion of sides plain slate color or deep slate-gray, like upper 

 parts, becoming slightly paler and duller posteriorly, the abdomen, 

 anal region, thighs, and hinder flanks plain tawny-ochraceous; under 

 tail-coverts white; chin and at least anterior half of malar region 

 white; throat and posterior portion of malar region black, the 

 feathers white at base or edged with white basally, except on extreme 

 lower portion of throat ; bill black, or dusky more or less tinged with 

 red; iris brown; bare orbital ring, legs, and feet yellowish in dried 

 skins, bright orange-red or vermilion in life; length (skins), 241-267 

 (250); wing, 116-129 (124.9); tail, 111-122 (117.7); exposed culmen, 

 22.5-24.5 (23.5); tarsus, 34.5-39 (36.9); middle toe, 21-23.5 (22.5).« 



Adult feTnale. — Similar to the adult male and often not distinguish- 

 able, but usually very slightly duller in color; length (skins), 225-258 

 (241); wing, 113-127.5 (119.7); tail, 103-116.5 (109.2); exposed cul- 

 men, 22-25 (23.3); tarsus, 32-37.5 (35.1); middle toe 20-22.5 (21.4).« 



Young. — Above plain slate-gray, duller than in adults, the lesser, 



o Ten specimens. 



