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throat black; chin and anterior portion of malar region white; sides 

 of head and neck (except as described) uniform slate color or deep 

 slate-gray, like upper parts, the under parts posterior to the black 

 throat-patch similar but becoming very slightly paler (more slate- 

 gray) posteriorly; bill varying from black to reddish, usually reddish 

 dusky; iris brown; bare orbital ring, legs, and feet bright orange-red 

 or vermilion in life, yellowish in dried skins; length (skins), 242-261 

 (254); wing, 116-128 (122); tail, 110-120.5(114.7); exposed culmen, 

 23-25 (23.9); tarsus, 35-39 (36.8); middle toe, 20.5-23.5 (22).« 



Adult female. — Similar to the male and often not distinguishable, 

 but usually very slightly duller slate color and with white tips to 

 lateral rectrices more restricted ; length (skins), 233-256 (246); wing, 

 113-123 (117.5); tail, 100-113 (107.7); exposed culmen, 22-26 (23.8); 

 tarsus, 34.5-36.5 (35.6); middle toe, 20-22 (21.1).^ 



Young. — Much paler and duller in color than adults, the black of 

 throat replaced by dull sooty or sooty spotting, the chest, breast, 

 etc., more or less distinctly barred or transversely spotted with 

 sooty; middle and greater wing-coverts with indistinct terminal tri- 

 angular spots of dull whitish, and scapulars and interscapulars with 

 very narrow shaft-streaks of the same. 



Bahama Islands (Great Bahama,'^ Abaco, Little Abaco, Eleuthera, 

 New Providence, Andros,'^ and San Salvador, or Cat, islands. 



[Turdus] plumbeiis Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 169 (based exclusively on 

 Tiirdus viscivorus plumbeiis Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carolina, i, 30, pi. 30); ed. 

 12, i, 1766, 294, part (includes M. ardosiacea). — Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 

 814, part (supposed male). — Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 334, part (supposed 

 male). — Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept., ii, 1807, 2, pi. 58. — Bryant, Proc. Bost. 

 Soc. N. H., xi, 1866, 68 (Bahamas). 



MimoHtta plumbea Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., ix, 1865, 371 (Bahamas; 

 description). 



a Eleven specimens. 



b Ten specimens. 



c No specimens seen by me from these islands . 



Specimens from different islands compare in average measurements as follows: 



