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CICHLHERMINIA DOMINICENSIS (Lawrence). 

 DOMINICAN FOREST THRUSH. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Above plain deep olive-brown or bister, 

 darker on pileum; lores dusky or blackish; sides of head lighter olive- 

 brown (between bister and mummy brown), the auricular region 

 having narrow shaft-streaks of pale tawny or buffy; chin, throat, and 

 upper chest similar but more or less distinctly streaked (broadly) 

 with darker brown or dusky, the throat also more or less streaked 

 with tawny or ochraceous; lower chest with feathers white and 

 ochraceous or tawny centrally, broadly margined with brown and 

 tipped with a rather large dusky spot, the feathers of breast (at least 

 the upper portion) similarly marked but with brown margins nar- 

 rower and running gradually into dusk/ on terminal portion; feathers 

 of sides and flanks white centrally (forming large, pointed, ovate or 

 broadly cuneate spots), broadly margined with olive-brown; abdomen 

 and anal region immaculate white; under tail-coverts olive-brown, 

 grayish brown or brownish gray, extensively tipped with white, the 

 white terminal spot sometimes nuirgined basally with ochraceous or 

 tawny; axillars and under wing-coverts white, sometimes edged with 

 l)rown or tawny; maxilla brownish basally, paler and more yellowish 

 terminally; maxilla yellowish; iris white'* or 'Hea color"; '' bare orb- 

 ital space yellow; legs and feet yellowish (yellow in life). 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 221-240 (229); wing, 120.5-125 

 (122.1); tail, 76.5-81.5 (79.3); exposed culmen, 24.5-26.5 (25.1); 

 tarsus, 42.5-44.5 (43.5); middle toe, 23.5-26 (24.7). '^ 



^(^u7^ /('ma7('.— Length (skins), 225-230 (227.5); wing, 118-119 

 (118.5); tail, 78.5-80 (79.2); exposed culmen, 26-26.5 (26.2); tarsus, 

 43-43.5 (43.2); middle toe, 24.5-26 (25.2).'^ 



Island of Dominica, Lesser Antilles. 



Margarops herminieri (not Turdus Vherminieri Lafresnaye) Lawrence, Proc. IT. S. 

 Nat. Mas., i, 1878, 52 (Dominica); i, 1879, 486, part (Dominica). 



Margarops dominicensis Lawrence, Pioc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, Mar. 27, 1880, 16 

 (Dominica, Lesser Antilles; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). — Reichenow and Scha- 

 Low, Journ. fiir Om., 1884, 432 (reprint of orig. descr.). 



Cichlherminia dominicensis Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vi, 1881, 328. — Cory, 

 Auk, iii, 1886, 8, part (Dominica); viii, 1891, 44, part (do.); Birds West Ind., 

 1889, 22 (Dominica); Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 19, 121 (Dominica).— Ver- 

 RiLL (G. E.), Trans. Conn. Acad. Sci., viii, 1892, 346 (Dominica; descr. nest 

 and eggs; notes, etc.). 



[Cichlherminia] dominicensis Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885, 5. — Sharpe, Hand- 

 list, iv, 1903, 117 (Dominica). 



« According to Verrill. c Five specimens. 



b According to Ober. d Two specimens. 



