BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA, 79 



(M. ravida) chin and throat slate-gray; bill, naked orbital ring, legs, 

 and feet bright orange or orange-red in life (the bill sometimes dusky) ; 

 sexes alike; young duller in color than adults, with breast, etc., 

 indistinctly barred or transversely spotted with darker. 



Nidlfication. — Nest open above, rather bulky, placed in trees, 

 composed externally of shreds of bark, slender twigs, etc., lined with 

 finer materials; eggs whitish, speckled, stippled, spotted, or blotched 

 with brown. 



Range. — Peculiar to the West Indies (Bahamas, Cuba, Isle of Pines, 

 Little Cayman, Cayman Brae, Grand Cayman, Haiti, Porto Rico, 

 and Dominica) . (Four species, with five additional subspecies.) 



KEY TO THE SPECIES AND SUBSPECIES OF MIMOCICHLA. 



a. Throat black, or streaked black and white; wings and tail black, the former with 

 Ijroad slate-gray edgings. 

 b. Throat white, streaked with black: aljdomen and hinder flanks white. (Mimo- 

 cichla ardosiacea.) 

 c. "Wliite of abdomen more restricted; gray of under parts deeper; white at end 

 of lateral rectrices more restricted (not exceeding 45 mm. from tip). 

 d. Averaging smaller, with decidedly smaller bill (wing averaging less than 125; 

 exposed culmen 22-23.5). (Island of Haiti, Greater Antilles.) 



Mimocichla ardosiacea ardosiacea (p. 80) 



dd. Averaging larger, with decidedly larger Ijill (wing averaging more than 126; 



exposed culmen 22.5-29, averaging nearly 25). (Island of Porto Rico, 



Greater Antilles.) Mimocichla ardosiacea portoricensis (p. 81) 



cc. White of abdomen more extended; gray of under parts paler; white at end of 

 lateral rectrices more extended (reaching more than 50 mm. from tip). 

 (Island of Dominica, Lesser Antilles.) 



Mimocichla ardosiacea albiventris (p. 82) 

 66. Throat black (the chin and anterior portion of malar region white); abdomen 

 and flanks gray or ochraceous-buff. 

 c. Under tail-coverts slate-gray. (Bahama Islands.). . .Mimocichla plumbea (p. 82) 

 cc. Under tail-coverts white. {Mimocichla rubripcs.) 

 d. Abdomen and flanks ochraceous-buff. 



e. Bill blackish or dusky red; ochraceous of abdomen deeper or more 

 extended. 

 /. Smaller, with relatively smaller bill (wing averaging 124.9, tail 117.7, 

 exposed culmen 23.5 in adult male). (Western Cuba.) 



Mimocichla rubripes rubripes (p. 84) 



ff. Larger, with relatively larger bill (wing averaging 127.6, tail 119.6, 



exposed culmen 24.7, in adult male). (Swan Island, Caribbean Sea.) 



Mimocichla rubripes eremita (p. 85) 

 ee. Bill light reddish brown (red in life); ochraceous of alxlomen more 

 restricted, usually paler. (Island of Cayman Brae, near Cuba.) 



Mimocichla rubripes coryi (p. 86) 

 dd. Abdomen and flanks slate-gray (sometimes with more or less of buff pos- 

 teriorly, next to white of under tail-covei-ts). (Eastern Cuba.) 



Mimocichla rubripes schistacea (p. 86) 

 aa. Throat plain slate-gray, like rest of under parts (only under tail-coverts white); 

 wings and tailo uniform slate-color. (Island of Grand Cayman, near Cuba.) 



Mimocichla ravida (v. 87) 

 o Except the usual white tips to lateral rectrices, found in all the species of the genus. 



