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Northeastern Soiitli America, from northeastern Brazil (Anapa), 

 through Cayenne. British Guiana, and Venezuela, to Colombia(?); 

 Trinidad; islands of Grenada, Carriacou, and St. Vincent, Lesser 

 Antilles. 



Turdus gymnophlhalmus Cabanis, in Schomburgk's Reis. Brit. Guiana, iii, 1848, 

 665 (Guiana; Taycnne; Caracas, Venezuela). — Sclater, Proc. ZooL Soc. 

 Lond., 1859, 329 (monogr.); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 4 (Venezuela).— Taylor, 

 Ibis, 1864, 80 (Trinidad).— Sclater and Salvin, Exotic Orn., 1869, 151, 

 pi. 76. — Seebohm, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., v, 1881, 212 (Caracas, Venezuela; 

 Trinidad; Guiana; Cayenne; Colombia). — Salvin, Ibis, 1885, 198 (Roraima, 

 British Guiana, 3,500 ft.).— Wells, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1887, 610 (Gren- 

 ada, Lesser Antilles; habits; descr. nest and eggs). — Lawrence, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., ix, 1887, 610 (Grenada; crit.). — Berlepsch and Hartert, Novit. 

 Zool., ix, 1902, 2 (Orinoco distr., Venezuela; descr. nest and eggs). 



[Turdus] gymnophthalmus Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 257, no. 3740. — Sclater and 

 Salvin, Norn. Av. Neotr., 1873, 1. 



T[urdus] gymnophthalmus Goeldi, Ibis, 1897, 161 (Anapa, n. e. Brazil). 



[Merula] gymnophthalma Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885, 5. — Sharpe, Hand- 

 list, iv, 1903, 123. 



Merula gymnophthalma Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 4 (syn. and descr.); x, 1893, 220 

 (Tobago); Birds West Ind., 1889, 18; Cat. Birds West Ind., 1892, 122, 157 

 (Grenada; St. Vincent).— Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., vi, 1894, 22 

 (Trinidad; habits; song). — Wells, Auk, xix, 1902, 349 (Carriacou, Lesser 

 Antilles; song; descr. eggs). 



[Plancsticus] gymnophthalmus Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein., 1890, 4 

 (Cayenne; Caracas, Venezuela). 



Turdus nudigenis Lafresnaye, Rev. ZooL, xi, Jan., 1848. 4 (Caracas, Vene- 

 zuela). — Leotaud, Ois. Trinidad, 1866, 201. 



Turdus gymnopsis Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 272 (ex Teniniiiick. manu- 

 script). 



T[urdus] gymnogrnys (lajisus) Sclater and Salvin. Il)is. 1879, 357. in text (Vene- 

 zuela; Trinidad). 



Turdus caribhceus Lawrence, Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci., i, July, 1878, KiO (Grenada, 

 Lesser Antilles; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



Turdus carrihxus Lawrence, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1879, 267 (Grenada). 



Turdus carihhxus Lawrence, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus.. i, 1879, 486 (Grenada). 



Merula caribhsea Cory, Ibis, 5th ser., iv, Oct., 1886. 472 (St. Vincent, Lesser 

 Antilles; crit.). 



PLANESTICUS OBSOLETUS (Lawrence). 

 LAWRENCE'S THRUSH. 



Adult male. — Above uniform bright warm-sepia or prouts brown, 

 slightly lighter on rump and upper tail-coverts; chin and throat pale 

 grayish brown or dull brownish white, streaked with warm-sepia 

 brown; chest and breast plain deep wood brown or isabella color, 

 deepening on sides and flanks into deep tawny brown or raw-umber; 

 abdomen, anal region, and under tail-coverts white conspicuously 

 contrasted with deep brown of flanks, the lateral under tail-coverts 

 more or less broadly edged with brown; under wing-coverts ochra- 

 ceous-buff, the axillars intermediate between this and color of sides; 



