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N[€somimus] nLela7ioti^ personatus Rothschild and Hartert, }vovit. Zool., vi, 



1899, 200. 

 [iWso»ii//iMs] mclanotis personatus Rothschild and Hartert. Xovit. Zool., ix, 



1902, 416. 

 Nesomimus personatus personatus Snodgrass and Heller, Proc. Wash. Ac. Sci., 



V, Jan. 28, 1904, 363 (crit.; measurements). 



NESOMIMUS MELANOTIS (Gould). 

 BLACK-EAEED MOCKINGBIRD. 



Similar to N. personatus, but bill much smaller, coloration paler, 

 and* flanks less strongly tinged with brown. 



Young. — Similar to the young of M. adamsi, but pileum much 

 darker (nearly imiform sooty slate), dusky centers to scapulars 

 larger (occupying much the greater part of each feather), buffy i3ro\\Ti 

 hue of rump, etc., less pronomiced, and edges of greater wing-coverts 

 and tertials less strongh' buffy. 



Adult wrtZ<'.— Length (skins), 220-247 (231); wing, 112-118 (115.7); 

 tail, 107-116 (111.2); exposed culmen, 23-23.5 (23.3); tarsus, 35- 

 37.5 (36.2); middle toe, 20.5-22 (21. 5). « 



Adult female. ^Length (skins), 222-233 (227); wing, 102-107 

 (104.7): tail, 100-105 (102); exposed culmen, 21.5-23 (22.1 1: tarsus, 

 34.5-36 (35.1); middle toe, 20.5-22 (21.2).^ 



James Island, Galapagos Archipelago; Charles Island (extinct)? 

 Jervis Island? 



Orpheus melanotis Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1837, 27 (Galapagos I.; coll. 

 C. Darwin, now in coll. Brit. Mus.). 



Mimus inelanotis Gould, Zool. Voy. "Beagle,'" iii, 1841, 62, pi. 17, part (James 

 I.). — ScLATER, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 345, part (James I.). — Sclater 

 and Salvix, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 323, part (James I.).— Sux- 

 devall, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1871, 124, 126, part (James and Charles 

 islands). — Salvin, Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond.. ix. pt. ix, 1876, 471, part (James 

 and Charles islands). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vi. 1881, 349. 



[Mimus] nulanotis Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 262, no. 3828. — Sclater and Salvix, 

 Xom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 3. 



Nesomimus mdanotis Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xii, 1890, 102, part (James 

 I.); xix. 1897, 489, part, pi. 56, fig. 3 (James I.: Charles I.?). 



{Nesomimus] melanotis Sharpe, Hand-list, iv, 1903, 105, part (James and Jervis 

 islands). 



Nesomimus melanotis melanotis Rothschild and Hartert, Xovit. Zool.. vi, 

 Aug., 1899, 145, part (Jervis and James islands, crit. )— Sxodgrass and Hel- 

 ler, Proc. Wash. Ac. Sci., v, 1904, 369 (James and Jervis islands; crit.; 

 measurements). 



N\esomimus] melanotis melanotis Rothschild and Hartert, Xovit.. Zool. vi, 

 1890, 200, part (Jervis and James islands). 



[Nesomimus] mela?iotis melanotis Rothschild and Hartert, Xovit. Zool., ix, 1902, 

 416, part (Jervis and James islands). 



[Mimus] parvulus (not Orpheus parvulus Gould) Boxaparte, Consp. Av., i, 

 1850, 277. part. 



"■ Five specimens. b Four specimens. 



