76 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Cichlherminia sandx-ludse Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vi, 1881, 328. — Cory, 

 List Birds West Ind., 1885, 5; Auk, iii, 1886, 8; viii, 1891, 44 (revised syn- 

 onymy: Santa Lucia; St. Vincent?); Birds West Ind., 1889, 22; Cat. West 

 Ind. Birds, 1892, 19, 121, 133 (Santa Lucia; St. Vincent).— Sclater, Proc. 

 ZooL Soc. Lond., 1889, 395 (Santa Lucia). 



[Cichlherminia] sanctse-lucise Sharpe, Hand-list, iv, 1903, 117 (Santa Lucia; "St. 

 Vincent"). 



CICHLHERMINIA CORYI Ridgway. 



CORY'S FOREST THRUSH. 



Most like C. Jierminieri but differing from that and all other known 

 forms in having the chest marked with large ovate spots of white. 



Adult (sex unhnovm). — Above plain warm-sepia brown, darker on 

 pileiim; sides of head and neck similar but rather paler, marked 

 (except on malar region) with narrow shaft-streaks of pale buff; lores 

 blackish; under parts white, the tlu-oat with cuneate streaks of light 

 brown (wood brown or Isabella color), the remaining under parts, 

 including whole chest, breast, sides, flanks, and abdomen, marked 

 with broad brown margins to the feathers, producing a conspicuously 

 squamate appearance; anal region and extreme lower abdomen im- 

 maculate white ; under tail-coverts grayish brown basally and laterally, 

 buffy white or pale buff terminally and medially; bill, naked orbital 

 space, legs, and feet, yellowish; length (mounted specimen), 235; 

 wing, 132; tail, 93; exposed culmen (sheath of maxilla wanting); 

 tarsus, 43; middle toe, 26. 



Locality unknown, but probably island of Martinique, Lesser 

 Antilles." 



(?) {Margarops\ herminicri (not Turdiis Vherminieri Lafresnaye) Sclater and 

 Salvin, Norn. Av. Neotr., 1873, 2, part (Martinique). 



(?) Margai-nps herminieri Lawrence, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1879, 351 (Marti- 

 nique), 486, part (Martinique). 



Cichlherminia coryi Ridgway, Smithson. Misc. Col. (quart, issue), xlvii, Aug. 6, 

 1904, 112 (locality unknown, but supposed to be island of Martinique, Lesser 

 Antilles; coll. Boston Soc. N. H.). 



a The single specimen upon which this very distinct species is based is one of the two 



"types" of Turdus Vherminieri Lafresnaye, in the collection of the Boston Society of 

 Natural History. The other specimen is exactly like other Guadeloupe specimens 

 ( C. herminieri) except that, having been for a long time mounted and exposed to the 

 light, is slightly faded. The present one (no. 3618, Lafresnaye collection) is, how- 

 ever, unquestionably a different species, and is the only one of the group having the 

 whole chest maiked with large ovate spots of white, very nearly as large as those on the 

 sides, flanks, and abdomen. As to the locality, there are only two islands besides those 

 inhabited by well-known forms, namely, St. Vincent and Martinique. The forms 

 which formerly inhabited these are probably now extinct. As long ago as 1878 Ober 

 found the Martinique form "rare, owing to the perseciition of hunters," and was unable 

 to obtain a specimen (see Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 351), nor was he able to obtain, 

 or even see, a specimen of the St. Vincent bird, although he heard its note (Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., 1, p. 187). Martinique being a French possession, it is more likely that 

 Lafresnaye obtained from there the specimen upon which I have based the new species 

 rather than from the British island of St. Vincent. 



