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minal notch, the tip of maxiha shghtly uncinate. Nostril broadly 

 oval or elliptical, posteriorly in contact with feathering of frontal 

 antise, margined above by narrow membrane. Rictal bristles dis- 

 tinct. Wing long and pointed, the longest primaries exceeding sec- 

 ondaries by length of middle toe without claw; outermost (tenth) 

 ])rimary more than half as long as ninth, but less than half as long 

 as eighth; ninth intermediate between second and third, the seventh 

 and sixth longest (but only slightly longer than eighth and fifth). 

 Tail decidedly shorter than wing, slightly rounded (graduation equal 

 io less than half the length of middle toe w^ithout claw), the rectrices 

 ligid. Tarsus rather short (between one-fourth and one-third as long 

 as wing), rather stout, with acrotarsium distinctly scutellate; middle 

 toe (without claw) about three-fourths as long as tarsus; lateral toes 

 ime([ual, the inner (without claw) reaching to slightly beyond sub- 

 terminal joint of middle toe, the outer somewhat farther; hallux 

 shorter than inner toe, but much stouter; basal phalanx of middle 

 toe united for half its length (or more) to outer toe, for about one- 

 fourth to inner toe. 



Coloration. — Above sooty brow^n with feathers of pileum, back, etc., 

 margined with paler brown; tertials and upper tail-coverts margined 

 with white; lateral rectrices broadly tipped with white; under parts 

 streaked and blotched with brow^n and white. 



Nidifcation. — Nest in bushes, open above; eggs immacidate deep 

 l)luish green (like those of Galeoscoptes) . 



Range. — West Indies: Greater Antilles (except Cuba and adjacent 

 Caymans), Lesser Antilles and Bahamas, and island of Btmaire, near 

 Venezuela. (Monotypic.) 



MARGAROPS FUSCATUS FUSCATUS (Vieillot). 

 PEARLY-EYED THRASHER. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Above grayish brown, the feathers darker 

 (sepia brown) centrally, producing an indistinctly spotted or scaled 

 efl'ect; longer upper tail dark sepia brown, broadly margined with 

 white; wings and tail deep sepia brown with lighter grayish brown 

 edgings, the tertials margined terminally wath white (except in worn 

 midsunnner plumage), the tail (except middle rectrices ") tipped with 

 white, the white very much broader on inner than on outer web and 

 decreasing in extent toward the middle rectrices; whole sides of head 

 and neck, including malar region, grayish brown, sometimes faintly 

 streaked with paler, especially on rictal region and malar apex; under 

 parts white, the chin, throat, and chest streaked with grayish brown, 

 these streaks much broader on chest, where sometimes more or less 

 conlluent; sides of breast, sides, and flanks light grayish brow^n, the 



a Sometimes these also are naiTowly tipped with white. 



