194 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Island of Cozumel, Yucatan. 



Har porky nchus gullatus Ridgway, Descr. New Species Birds from Cozumel, Feb. 



26, 1885, 1 (Cozumel I., Yucatan; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.); Proc. Biol. Soc. 



Washington, iii, Feb. 26, 1885, 21; Proc. U. S.'Nat. Mus., viii, Oct. 17, 1885, 



561.— Salvin, Ibis, 1888, 244 (Cozumel; crit.). 

 H[arporhynchus] guttatus Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 544. 

 [Toxostoma] guttatum Sharpe, Hand-list, iv, 1903, 107. 

 Harporhynchus vielanostoma Salvin, Ibis, 5th ser., x, Apr.. 1885, 187 (Cozumel I.. 



Yucatan; coll. Salvin and Godman; habits). 



TOXOSTOMA OCELLATUM (Sclater). 

 OCELLATED THRASHER. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Above plain deep hair brown, inclining to 

 olive; three or four lateral rectrices rather narrowly tipped with 

 white, the white tip usually preceded by a narrow bar of dusky; mid- 

 dle and greater wing-coverts tipped with a triangular spot of white; 

 an indistinct superciliary stripe of dull-brownish white or pale 

 brownish buff; lores similar but more or less tinged or mottled with 

 grayish or dusky; auricular region broccoli brown, with very narrow 

 shaft-streaks of paler; upper anterior portion of malar region blackish, 

 producing a more or less distinct triangular patch, encroaching some- 

 what on suborl)ital region; rest of malar region dull white, forming a 

 distinct stripe; a more or less distinct, usually interrupted, submalar 

 stripe of blackish; under parts dull white, or buffy white, passing into 

 dull buff posteriorly, the flanks tinged with brown; chest, breast, 

 sides, and flanks boldly spotted with black, the spots very large, sub- 

 rounded, on chest usually more or less transverse; under tail-coverts 

 with smaller, more or less concealed, spots or irregular markings of 

 blackish; bill blackish, usually paler (more horn colored) on basal 

 portions of gonys ; legs and feet light horn color (in dried skins) . 



Adult maZe.— Length (skins), 280-290 (285.5); wing, 100-104 

 (102.7); tail, 136-144 (140.7); exposed cidmen, 32-33.5 (33); tarsus, 

 37 38.5 (37.9) ; middle toe, 23-25 (24.2). « 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 270-275 (272.5); wing, 96-99 

 (97.5); tail, 130-135 (132.5); exposed culinen, 31-33 (32); tarsus, 

 35.5-36.5 (36) ; middle toe, 23.5-24.(23.-7).^ 



South-central Mexico, in States of Puebla (Mount Orizaba; Chal- 

 chicomula; San Martin), Mexico (near City of ^Mexico), and Oaxaca 

 (City of Oaxaca) . 



Harporhynchus ocellat us Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc, Lond., 1862, 18, pi. 3 (Oaxaca, 

 s. w. Mexico; coll. P. L. Sclater); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, Suppl. no. 49* (do.). 

 Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, iii, 1874, 499 (crit.). — 

 Salvin and GoDM.VN, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves. i, 1879, 32; Ibis, 1889, 234 

 (near City of Mexico).— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vi, 1881, 357.— Ridg- 

 way, Ibis, 1883, 399 (crit.). 



a Four specimens. b Two specimens. 



