244 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



[Mimus] gundlachi Sharpe, Hand-list, iv, 1903, 103, part. 



Mimus bahamensis Bryant (H.), Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1859, 114 (Bahama 

 Key, Bahamas; habits; song; crit.); xi, 1866, 68 (Inagua; crit.). — Baird, 

 Review Am. Birds, 1864, 52 (Bahama Key).— Cory, Birds Bahama I., 1880, 48. 



[Mimus] bahamensis Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 262, no. 3836.— Cory, list Birds 

 West Ind., 1885, 6. 



MIMUS GUNDLACHII HILLII (March). 



HILL S MOCKINGBIRD. 



Very similar to 31. g. hahamensis, but upper parts more distinctly 

 streaked (especially on back), chest very faintly, if at all, tinged with 

 gray, and white tips to rectrices averaging larger; size averaging 

 decidedly larger (larger even than 31. g. gundlacJiii) . 



Adult male. —Length (skins), 266-279 (275) ; wing, 125-127.5 (125.7) ; 

 tail, 130-134.5 (133.4); exposed culmen, 22-23.5 (22.9); tarsus, 38- 

 40.5 (39.5); middle toe, 24-26.5 (24.6).« 



Adult female.— Length iskins), 263-270 (266); wing, 118-122 (120); 

 tail, 121.5-129.5 (125.8); exposed culmen, 22-23 (22.2); tarsus, 

 36-38.5 (37.5); middle toe, 22.5-23 (22.7).^ 



Island of Jamaica, Greater Antilles. 



Mimus hillii March, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 291 (Jamaica; based on M. 



orpheus Hill, not Turdus orpheus Linnaeus). — Baird, Review Am. Bu'ds, 1864, 



52 (Port Henderson and Great Salt Pond, Jamaica). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds 



Brit. Mus., vi, 1881, 343.— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 22; Birds West Ind., 1889, 36; 



Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 157 (crit.).— Field, Auk, xi, 1894, 127 (habits; 



descr. eggs). 

 [Mimus] hillii Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 262, no. 3830. — Sclater and Salvin, Nom. 



Av. Neotr., 1873, 3.— Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885, 6. 

 M[imus] hillii Newton (A. and E.), Handb. Jamaica, 1881, 105. 

 Mimus hilli Cory, Cat. W'est Ind. Birds, 1892, 19. 

 [Mimus] hilli Sharpe, Hand-list, iv, 1903, 103. 



Mimus gundlachi hillii Cory, Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 121, 130 (Jamaica). 

 Mimus orpheus (not Turdus orpheus Linnaeus) Hill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 



1863, 304. 

 M[imus] gimdlachii (not of Cabanis) Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 542, part 



(Jamaica). 



Genus NKSOMIMUS Ridgway. 



Nesomimus Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xii, no. 767, Feb. 5, 1890, 102 

 footnote. (Type, Orpheus melanotis Gould.) 



Medium-sized to large Mimidse (length 190-270 mm.) with long 

 slender tarsus (decidedly more than one-third longer than middle 

 toe without claw), tail not longer than wing (usually shorter), nostril 

 narrow, horizontally linear or elliptical, and plumage of upper parts 

 variegated with brownish gray or grayish brown, dusky, and whitish. 



a Fom- specimens. ^ Three specimens. 



