74 BULLETIN 50^ UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



CICHLHERMINIA HERMINIERI HERMINIERI ( Lafresnaye). 

 GUADELOUPE FOREST THRUSH. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Above plain olive-brown; chin and throat 

 buffy whitish or pale rusty buff streaked with light olive-brown, the 

 latter prevailing on lower portion and sides of throat, the extreme 

 lower tlu'oat and upper chest rather light olive-brown or raw-umber 

 with median streaks of pale buff or rusty white; feathers of lower 

 chest, breast, abdomen (except extreme lower portion), sides, and 

 flanks white centrally, margined with olive-brown, producing a 

 squamate appearance, the white central area of each feather obtusely 

 pointed at the extremity, these white central spots smaller and the 

 olive-brown margin correspondingly broader anteriorly, and vice 

 versa; extreme lower abdomen and anal region immaculate white, 

 or with a few of the feathers indistinctl}^ tipped with olive; under 

 tail-coverts more or less distinctly margined or edged with light 

 olive-brown; axillars and under wing-coverts white, more or less 

 distinctly edged with pale olive-brown or wood browTi, their basal 

 portion also brown; maxilla brownish; mandible yellowish (in dried 

 skins) ; naked orbital space yellowish; legs and feet yellowish (in 

 dried skins). 



Young. — Essentially like adults, but scapulars'^ with narrow shaft- 

 streaks of pale ochraceous or rusty whitish, and brown margins to 

 feathers of under parts less sharply defined. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 243-247 (245); wing, 133.5-144 

 (136.4); tail, 92-99 (95.5); exposed culmen, 24.5-25.5 (24.9) ; tarsus, 

 42-44.5 (44); middle toe, 23.5-25.5 (24.4).^ 



Adult female. — Length (skin), 245; wing, 132.5; tail, 88.5; exposed 

 culmen, 25.5; tarsils, 40; middle toe, 24.^ 



Island of Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles. 



Turdus Vherminieri Lafresnaye, Rev. ZooL, vii, May, 1844, 167 (Guadelmipo, 

 Lesser Antilles; type now in coll. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist.). 



Cichlherminia herminieri Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xxxviii, 1854, 2. — Sharpe, 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vi, 1881, 327.— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 7, part (Guade- 

 loupe); viii, 1891, 43 (revised synonymy); ix, 1891, 49 (Guadeloupe); Birds 

 West Ind., 1889, 21, part (do.); Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 19, 121, 133 

 (Guadeloupe). 



{CiMhenninia] herminieri Sharpe, Hand-list, iv, 1903, 116 (Guadeloupe). 



[Turdus] Vherminierii Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 259, no. 3788. 



Margarops hermimen Lawrence, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 452 (Guadeloupo), 

 486, part (Guadeloupe). 



Cichlerminia bonapartii Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 18597335 (Guadeloupe; 

 monogr.). — Baird, Review Am. Birds, 1864, 59. 



a Possibly the interscapulars also; but the single specimen examined has partly 

 assumed the adult plumage, the feathers on the back being of the new dress. 

 b Five specimens. 

 cOne specimen; not fully adult, retaining part of the first plumage. 



