BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 107 



(98.7); exposed culmen, 22-22.5 (22.3); tarsus, 33.5-35 (34.3); mid- 

 dle toe, 19.5-21.5 (20.7). « 



Tres Marias Islands, western Mexico. 



Turdics JIavirostris (not of Swainson) Grayson, Proc. Best. Soc. N. H., xiv, ]87], 

 276, part (Tres Marias); Nat. Hist. Tres Marias and Socorro, 1871, 17 (do.). — 

 Lawrence, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., ii, 1874, 266, part (Tres Marias).— Salvin 

 and GoDMAN, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1879, 21, part (Tres Marias). — 

 Seebohm, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., v, 1881, 225, part (Tres Marias). 



[Tnrdus] ymysoni Sharpe, Hand-list, iv, 1903, 122. 



Merula JJavirostris graysoni Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, June 5, 1882, 12 

 (Tres Marias Islands, w. Mexico; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). — Reichenow and 

 Schalow, Journ. fiir Orn., 1884, 433 (reprint of orig. descr."). 



M[erula] graysoni Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 578. 



Merula graysoni Nelson, N. Am. Fauna, no. 14, 1899, 60 (habits; song; crit.). 



PLANESTICUS JAMAICENSIS (Gmelin). 

 WHITE-EYED THRUSH. 



Adults (sexes aliJie). — Head, except chin and throat, uniform rich 

 warm-sepia or Vandyke brown, the neck more olivaceous brown; 

 rest of upper parts plain slate color, the rectrices and concealed por- 

 tion of remiges darker and didler; chin and throat (except lateralh^) 

 white, streaked with rich brown; a broad band of immaculate white 

 across lower throat; rest of under parts brownish gray or grayish 

 brown (drab-gray to hair brown), fading into white on abdomen 

 and anal region; under tail-coverts slate color or slate-gray witli a 

 mesial and terminal wedge-shaped mark of white; bill blackish, the 

 basal portion of mandible sometimes yellow;'' iris bluish white;" legs 

 and feet dark horn color, the soles of toes yellowish.^ 



Adult male.— Length, (skins), 192-220 (208); wing, 115-121 (118); 

 tail, 83-91 (87.1);' exposed cidmen, 17-20 (18.7); tarsus, 34-35.5 

 (35.1); middle toe, 20-21.5 (20.8).^* 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 198-224 (212); wing, 112-121.5 

 (115.7); tail, 84-93 (87.9); exposed cidmen, 17-19.5 (18.4); tarsus, 

 33.5-36 (34.8); middle toe, 20-21.5 (20.7).*^ 



Island of Jamaica, Greater Antilles. 



[Titrdns] jamaicensis GmbIjIN , Sept. Nat., i, 1788, 809 (based on Jamaica Thrush 

 Latham, Gen. Synop. Birds, ii, pt. 1, 20). — L.\tham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 

 328.— Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 257, no. 3739.— Sclater and Salvin, Nom. 

 Av. Neotr., 1873, 1. 



Tardus jamaicensis Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xx, 1818, 234. — Bona- 

 parte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 271. — Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 

 327 (monogr.); 1861, 70; Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 3.— Gundlach, Journ. fiir 

 Orn., 1861, 404 (crit.).— Albrecht, Journ. fur Orn., 1862, 192.— March, 

 Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 292.— Seebohm, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., v, 

 1881, 208. 



T[urdus] jamaicensis Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1847, 219. — Newton (A. and E.), 

 Handb. Jamaica, 1881, 105. 



« Six specimens. ^ According to Gosse. c Seven specimens. 



