80 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



MIMOCICHLA ARDOSIACEA ARDOSIACEA (Vieillot). 

 HAITIAN THRUSH. 



Adults {sexes alike). — .Vbove plain slate color or deep slate-gray, 

 the feathers of pileuin with more or less distinct mesial streaks of 

 blackish; wings and tail Idack, the former with broad slate-gray 

 edgings, nearly concealing the black in closed wing, except on tertials, 

 alulae, primary coverts, and terminal portion of primaries; outer webs 

 of middle rectrices becoming dull slate color basally; rectrices (except 

 middle pair") tipped with white, this very extensive (about 32-42 

 mm.) on inner web of exterior rectrix, decreasing rapidly toward 

 middle pair; loral and suborbital and anterior portion of malar region 

 black or slate-black, the rest of auricular region, together with sides of 

 neck, uniform slate color, like upper parts; malar region, chin, and 

 throat, white, broadly streaked with black; chest, upper breast, sides, 

 and flanks clear gray, deepest (about no. 6 gray) on chest, becoming 

 slightly paler toward flanks, and fading into white on abdomen, the 

 under tail-coverts entirely white; thighs gray, passing into whitish 

 on tips of feathers; bill, bare orbital ring, legs, and feet yellowish in 

 dried skins, bright yellow, orange, or orange-red in life; iris brown.'' 



Young. — Above much duller or more brownish slate than adults; 

 gray of under parts paler and duller, the chest and sides more or less 

 distinctly barred or transversely spotted (sometimes very faintly) 

 with dusky. 



Adult male.— Ijength (skins), 228-257 (241); wing, 119-128.5 

 (124.7); tad, 97-115.5 (106.7); exposed culmen, 21.5-23.5 (22.5); 

 tarsus, 37-39(38.3); middle toe, 21.5-23 (22. 2)*^ 



Adult female.— Ijength (skins), 215-268 (239); wmg, 114.5-136.5 

 (124.9); tad, 93.5-123 (106.7); exposed culmen, 22.5-23 (22.8); 

 tarsus, 36.5-40 (38.3); middle toe, 21.5-23.5 (22. .5).'^ 



Island of Haiti, Greater Antilles. 



[Turdus] plumbcus (not. of Linnaeus, 1758) Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 

 294, part (quotes Le Merle cendre d' Amerique Brisson, Orn., ii, 288; Santo 

 Domingo). — Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 814, part (supposed female). — 

 Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 334, part (supposed female). 



Turdus pZumfeeits Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept., ii, 1807, 2; Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., 

 XX, 1818, 242. 



M[imus] plumbeus Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1847, 221. 



[Mimus] plumbeus Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 276. 



[Galcoscoptes] plumbeus Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1850, 82, footnote. 



Galeoscoptes plumbeus Salle, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 231 (Santo Domingo"). — 

 ScLATER, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 337, part (monogr.; Santo Domingo). 



a Even these are sometimes narrowly tipped with white. 



6 Iris "red-brown, eyelids, bill, feet, and legs light indian rea, tip of bill and claws 

 dusky." (Cherrie.) 

 c Six specimens. 

 d Five specimens. 



