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indistinct shaft-streaks of darker) ; abdomen brownish white or very 

 pale brownish buff; under tail-coverts dull white or very pale brown- 

 ish buff, with more or less distinct mesial streaks of light olive-brown, 

 the concealed portion mostly of this color; axillars and under wing- 

 coverts ochraceous-buff, with more or less distinct mesial streaks of 

 light olive-brown; inner webs of remiges edged (not sharply) with 

 pale ochraceous-cinnamon, especially toward base; bill deep or dark 

 horn color (in dried skins), « the mandible sometimes partly paler; 

 iris yellow'' or olive-brown;'' legs and feet brownish horn color in 

 dried skins, gray or dirty white in life.'' 



Adult maZe.— Length (skins), 220-228 (224); wing, 113-120 

 (116.5); tail, 84.5-91.5 (88); exposed culmen, 20-23.5 (21.9); tarsus, 

 33-34 (33.5); middle toe, 22-23 (22.6).'= 



Ad,ult female.— hength (skin), 225; wing, 110-118.5 (114.5); tail, 

 82.5-86.5 (84.3); exposed culmen, 21-22.5 (21.7); tarsus, 33.5-34.5 

 (33.9); middle toe, 21-23.5 (22.4).'^ 



Islands of vSt. Vincent and Grenada, Lesser Antilles. 



Turdus nigrirostris Lawrence, Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci., i, June, 1878, 147 (St. 

 Vincent, Lesser Antilles; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.); Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 

 1878, 187 (St. Vincent); i, 1879, 267 (Grenada), 486 (St. Vincent; Grenada).— 

 Lister, Ibis, 1880, 39 (St. Vincent). — Seebohm, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., v, 

 1881, 218 (St. Vincent).— Wells, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1887, 609 (Gre- 

 nada; habits; notes; descr. nest and eggs). — Nicoll, Ibis, 1904, 564 (Grand 

 Etang, Grenada). 



[Mcnda] nigrirostris Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885, 5. — Sharpe, Hand-list, 

 iv, 1903, 125. 



Merula nigrirostris Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 4 (St. Vincent); Ibis, 1886, 472 (St. Vin- 

 cent); Birds West Ind., 1889, 18; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 19, 122, 134 (St. 

 Vincent; Grenada). 



« Said by W. B. Richardson to be sometimes yellowish in life. 



b W. B. Richardson, on labels of specimens. 



c Five specimens. 



d Four specimens. 



St. Vincent and Grenada specimens compare in average measurements as follows: 



All the Grenada specimens examined are more olive above, the color of breast 

 lighter and less rufescent and have the ochraceous-lniff of under wing-coverts lighter 

 and more distinctly streaked with light olive. Should the differences ol)served prove 

 constant in a larger series the birds from the two islands should be considered as sub- 

 specifically distinct. 



