BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



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less brownish; iris white or pale yellow; leos and feet horn l)rownisli 

 (in dried skins)." 



Immature. — Similar to adults, but larger wing-coverts and second- 

 aries edged (the former also margined terminally) with brownish buft* 

 or cinnamon; iris brownish. (Young in fii'st plumage not seen.) 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 184-260 (218); wing, 107.5-128 

 (117.7); tail, 83.5-104 (94.3); exposed culmen, 17-21.5 <59-l); tarsus, 

 27-32.5 (29.1); middle toe, 19-22 (20.5).^ 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 190-243 (216); wing, 108.5-125 

 (116.7); tail, 82-102.5 (92.6); exposed culmen, 17-20.5 (18.9); 

 tarsus, 26.5-32.5 (29); middle toe, 17.5-22.5 (20.3).^ 



Lesser Antilles (islands of St. Eustatius, St. Chiistopher, Antigua, 

 Barbuda, Guadeloupe, Desirade, Marie Galante, Dominica, Mar- 

 tinique, Santa Lucia, St. Vincent, Carriacou, Grenada, and Barbados). 



Turdus iiiontamis (not of Voigt, 1831) Lafresnaye, Rev. Zool., vii. May. 1844. 



1G7 (Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles). 

 T[nTdus] vwiUanus Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1847, 219. 

 [Turdus] montanus Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 259, no. 3787. 



a Said to bo dark green in life (Semper, Proc. Zool. Soe. liond., 1871, 268). 



b Thirty-four specimens. 



c Twenty-four specimens. 



Average measurements of .specimens from different islands are as follows: 



Loealitv. 



MALES. 



One adult male from Saba 



Three adult males from St. Eustatius. . 

 Two adult males from St. Christopher. 



Thi-ee adult males from Antigua 



Three adult males from Guadeloupe . . . 



One adult male from Desirade 



Six adult males from Dominica 



Three adult males from Martinique 



Seven adult males from Santa Lucia. . . 

 One adult male from St. Vincent 



Wing. 



123. f) 



113.5 



123.2 



117.8 



122.7 



125.5 



117.7 



114 



117.5 



118.5 



Four adult males from Grenada 113.7 



One adult female from St. Christopher , 118 



Three adult females from Antigun i 115.8 



110 



121.2 



113.5 



llfi.8 



118.5 



IKi.l 



Five adult females from Guadeloupe. . . 

 Three adult females from Dominica . . . 

 Two adult females from Martinique. . . 

 Three adult females from Santa Lucia . 



One adult female from St. Vincent 



i^lx adult fomnle.? from G renada 



Tail. posed jTarsus.' ^/^f * 

 culmen. ; i ^"'^- 



32.5 



30.2 



29.7 



31.2 



31 



30 



28 



28.5 



28.2 



30.7 

 30.4 

 29.7 

 28.2 

 28.5 

 29.5 

 28.4 



21.5 



20.7 



21.5 



20.8 



21.2 



20.5 



20.1 



19. 8 



20.3 



20 



20.3 



21 



21.8 

 19.7 

 20.2 



IS.S 

 21 

 IS). 6 



So far as 1 am able to judge, there is no constant difference in coloration lietween 

 f^pecimens from different islands, while as to measurements the individual variation 

 is very marked (if sexing of specimens is to Ix' trusted) without r(>gard to locality. 



