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Galeoscoptes a Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1850, 82. (Type, Muscicapa caroliyunsis 



Linnseus.)'' 

 Felivox Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xxxviii, 1854, 50. (Type, Mitscicapa caro- 



linensis Linnaeus.) 

 Lucar Coues, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1875, 349. (Type, Muscic.apa carolinen- 



sis Linnaeus.) (See Coues, Aux, xiv, 1897, 97.) 



Rather small Mimidc'B (length about 200 mm.) with bill much shorter 

 than head, and coloration plain slate-gray, relieved by black pilcum 

 and tail, and chestnut under tail-coverts. 



Bill much shorter than head, the exposed culmen decidedly shorter 

 than middle toe, without claw, nearly straight to near tip, where gradu- 

 ally decurved ; gonys nearly straight or very slightly convex, ascending 

 terminally, its base forming a perceptible protruding angle ; maxillary 

 tomium nearly straight, distinctly notched subterminally. Nostril 

 ovate, overhung by membrane, posteriorly in contact with feathering 

 of frontal antia?. Rictal bristles distinct. Wing moderate (longest 

 primaries exceeding longest secondaries by about two-thnds the 

 length of middle toe without claw), rounded; outermost (tenth) pri- 

 mary more than half as long as ninth, the latter about equal to third, 

 eighth about ecpial to fifth, the seventh and sixth longest (though onl}^ 

 slightly exceeding eighth and fifth). Tail slightly longer than wing, 

 decidedly rounded (graduation equal to slightly more than distance 

 from nostril to tip of maxilla), the rectrices narrowly rounded termi- 

 nally, with extreme tip somewhat pointed. Tarsus less than one-third 

 as long as wing, rather slender, the acrotarsium with scutella some- 

 times indistinct, especially on outer side; middle toe about two-thirds 

 as long as tarsus; lateral toes unequal, the inner (without claw) reach- 

 ing to subterminal joint of middle toe, the outer slightly beyond ; hallux 

 about as long as inner toe but nuich stouter; basal phalanx of middle 

 toe adherent for about half its length to outer toe, almost wholly free 

 from inner toe; claws normal as to length and curvature. 



Coloration. — Plain slate-gray (rather paler below) , with pileum and 

 tail black and under tail-coverts partly chestnut. Young with chest, 

 etc., obsoletely spotted with darker. 



Nidijicafion. — Nest open above, rather bulky, composed exteriorly 

 of twigs, strips of bark, etc., lined with fine rootlets, placed in small 

 tree, growth of vines, or other sheltered places. Eggs (3-5) immacu- 

 late deep bluish green. 



Range. — Temperate North America, migrating in winter to Baha- 

 mas, Cuba, Mexico, and Central America; resident in Bermudas. 

 (Monotypic.) 



a" yaXiJ, katze unci ^KajTrrt^g, 6, spotter, Nachaffer." 



&It is possible that this name may, on ground of priority, have to give way to Spo- 

 dcsilaura, but I am not able to determine the exact date of publication of CTalcoscoptes. 

 Doctor Richmond is of the opinion that it could hardly have been earlier than Septem- 

 ber, 1850, and may have been as late as 1851. 



