234 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Minvs [typograpical (>nor] dominicus Cherrie, Tontr. Orn. San. Dom., 1896, 10 



(habits). 

 Mimus polyglottus var. dominicus Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xi, 1866, 63. 

 Mimus orpheus dominicus Cory, Bull Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, July, 1881, 151 



(Haiti). 

 Mimus orpheus (not Turdus orpheus Linnseus) Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vi, 



1881, 340, part (Santo Domingo). 

 Mimus polyglottos orpheus Cory, Auk, viii, 1891, 45, part. 

 Mimus polyglottus orpheus Cory, Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 121, 157, part 



(Santo Domingo). 

 {Miimts'\ orpheus Sharpe, Hand-list, iv, 1903, 102, part. 

 Turdus merle Muller, Syst. Nat. Suppl., 1776, 139 (based on Merle cendre de 8. 



Domingue Daubenton, PL Enl., pi. 558, fig. 1; see Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 



Phila., 1864, 249). 



MIMUS GILVUS GILVUS (Vieillot). 

 GUIANA MOCKINGBIRD. 



Adult male. — Above plain brownish gray (mouse gray, or between 

 mouse gray and smoke gray), the pileum narrowly streaked with 

 dusky; wings and tail dull blackish slate, with pale gray edgings, 

 these broader and merging gradually into the darker color on greater 

 wing-coverts, secondaries, and rectrices, narrower, sharply defined, 

 and paler (usually white, or nearly so) on primaries; middle and 

 greater wing-coverts more or less distinctly tipped with pale gray or 

 grayish white, forming two narrow and fairly distinct bands; rectrices 

 (except middle pair) abruptly tipped with white, more extensively on 

 inner web, the white terminal area on lateral rectrix about 23-35 mm. 

 in length, on other rectrices decreasing in extent toward middle pair; 

 an indistinct superciliary stripe of grayish white, becoming purer 

 white anteriorly, where involving upper portion of lores; a duskj^ 

 loral streak, broadest at anterior angle of eye; a dusky or dark gray 

 postocular streak; suborbital, malar, and auricular regions (except 

 upper portion of the last) white, the auricular region more or less 

 tinged or streaked with pale gray, the suborbital region usually with 

 minute dusky bars; under parts white, the chest and sides of breast 

 more or less strongly tinged with pale gray, the flanks and under tail- 

 coverts more or less tinged with buff; flankg broadly streaked with 

 dusky, the shorter under tail-coverts usually narrowdy streaked with 

 the same; bill black, the basal portion of mandible more or less 

 brownish; iris j^ellowish; legs and feet dusky (in dried skins); length 

 (skins), 200-239 (220); wing, 98-106.5 (102); tail, 94-113.5 (102.9); 

 exposed culmen, 17-19 (17.7); tarsus, 29.5-33.5 (32.7); middle toe, 

 19.5-21.5 (20.6).« 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male, but slightly smaller, chest 

 more strongly tinged with pale gray, and white tips to rectrices 

 slightly smaller; length (skins), 203-238 (228); wmg 95.5-105.5 



o Thirteen specimens from Lesser Antilles. 



