262 BULLETIN no, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MLTSEUM. 



Bill about half as long as head (shorter than middle toe without 

 claw), much broader than deep at base, its width at frontal antise 

 equal to much more than half the distance from nostril to tip of max- 

 illa; exposed culmen shorter than middle toe without claw, gradually 

 curved from base, slightly arched; gonys faintly convex, ascending 

 terminally; maxillary tomium faintly concave anterior to middle por- 

 tion, distinctly notched subterminally. Nostril rather large, ovate, 

 posteriorly nearly in contact with feathering of frontal antifie, mar- 

 gined superiorly and (very narrowly) posteriorly by membrane. 

 Rictal bristles weak. Wing long and rather pointed, the longest 

 primaries exceeding secondaries by lenth of tarsus, or slightly less; 

 outermost (tenth) primary about half as long as ninth, the latter 

 nearly as long as fourth; seventh and sixth primaries longest. Tail 

 decidedly shorter than wing, slightly rounded (graduation equal to 

 little more than half the length of middle toe without claw) , the rec- 

 trices rather rigid. Tarsus short (about one-fourth as long as wing), 

 the acrotarsium distinctly scutellate; middle toe (without claw) 

 about three-fourths as long as tarsus; lateral toes unequal, the imier 

 (without claw) reaching to subterminal joint of middle toe, the outer 

 slightly farther; hallux shorter than inner toe, but much stouter; 

 basal phalanx of middle toe united for slightly more than half its 

 length to outer toe, for one-fourth, or less, to inner toe. 



Coloration. — Upper parts plain sooty browm or sepia, with more or 

 less of white at tip of greater wing-coverts and tertials, the lateral rec- 

 trices likewise tipped with white; under parts browm anteriorly, 

 white posteriorly, the brown feathers tipped with white. 



Nidiji cation. — Nest composed of twigs, etc., open above. Eggs 

 plain bluish green. 



Range. — Lesser Antilles. (Monotypic.) 



ALLENIA APICALIS i Hartlaub). 

 SCALY-BREASTED THRASHER. 



Adults {sexes alike). — ^ Above plain deep sepia brown, the remiges 

 and rectrices slightly darker with paler grayish brown indistinct 

 edgings; tertials margined terminally wdth white, most broadly on 

 inner web; greater w^ing-co verts narrowly tipped with white, some- 

 times forming a distinct narrow band; inner w^eb of rectrices (except 

 middle pair) with a terminal white spot, decreasing in size tow^ard 

 the middle pair; sides of head and neck similar in color to upper 

 parts; under parts lighter sepia brown, becoming w^'hite on abdomen, 

 anal region, and under tail-coverts (sometimes on median portion of 

 breast also), the feathers of the chin, throat, chest, breast, sides, and 

 flanks more or less broadly margined with white, producing a scaled 

 appearance; under tail-coverts with a central or basal triangular space 

 of brown; bill blackish, the low^er basal portion of mandible more or 



