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streaked with dusky or else with a central, mostly concealed, wedge- 

 shaped area of pale buffy grayish; bill black, the mandible brownish 

 basally; legs and feet dusky bro^vn or blackish (in dried skins). 



Adult maZe.— Length (skins), 258-278 (267); wing, 115-125.5 

 (120.8); tail, 125-131.5 (128.2); exposed eulmen, 20.5-24 (22.3); 

 tarsus, 37.5-41 (38.9); middle toe, 22.5-25.5 (23.8)." 



Ad^lt female.— Lex\^i\i (skins), 240-264 (255); wing, 112.5-116.5 

 (114.1); tail, 118.5-131.5 (123.9); exposed eulmen, 21-22 (21.4); 

 tarsus, 37.5-39.5 (38); middle toe, 22-23 (22.7).'' 



Cays along northern coast of Cuba (Cayo Santa Maria, etc.) and 

 more southern Bahama islands (Watlings Island; Rum Cay; prob- 

 ably also Maraguna,'^ Great Inagua,*" and Caicos islands). '^ 



Mimus gundlachii Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1855, 470 (Cayo Santa Maria, n. coast 

 Cubad). — ScLATER, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 342 (monogr.). — Brewer, 

 Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1860, 307 (Cuba). — Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., ' 

 1872, 409 (crit.); Orn. Cubana, 1876, 60.— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 vi, 1881, 344, footnote. 



[Mimus] gundlachii Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 262, no. 3834. 



[ifwH»s] gundlachi Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 324 (Cuba); Repert. Fisico- 

 Nat. Cuba, i, 1865, 230.— Sharpe, Hand-list, iv, 1903, 103, part. 



M[imus] gundlachii Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 542, part. 



Mimus gundlachi Baird, Review Am. Birds, 1864, 59 (Cuba). — Gundlach, 

 Journ. fur Orn., 1871, 293 (Cuba); Orn. Cubana, 1893, 53.— Cory, Auk, iii, 

 1886, 21, part (Cuba); ix, 1892, 49 (Watlings I., Bahamas); Birds West Ind., 

 1889, 35, part (Cuba); Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 19, 121, part (Cuba; Wat- 

 lings I.; Rum Cay). — Ridgway, Auk, viii, 1891, 337 (Watlings I.; Rum Cay). 



? Mivius gundlachi Cory, Auk, viii, 1891, 297 (Caicos Islands); ix, 1892, 48 

 (Maraguana I., Bahamas); Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 19, 121, part (Mara- 

 guana; Caicos Islands; Great Inagua). 



[Mimus] gundlachi Cory, List. Birds West Ind., 1885, 6 (Cuba). 



a Nine specimens (five from Rum Cay, four from Watlings Island, Bahamas). 



b Four specimens (two each from Rum Cay and Watlings Island). 



Specimens from Watlings Island and Rum Cay average, respectively, as follows: 



c No specimens fr<mi these islands seen by me. 



dAccording to Gundlach, Orn. Cubana, 1876, 60, 61. The type is apparently in the 

 collection of the Gundlach Museum, Havana. 



