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Islands of Montserrat , Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique,'' Santa 

 Lucia," and Barbados," Lesser Antilles. 



Turdus densirostris YieiIjIjO'V, Nuuv. Diet. d'HisL Nat., xx, 1818, 232 (Martiniqvir, 

 Lesser Antilles); Enc. Msth., ii, 1823, 642. — Lafresnaye, Rev. Zool., 1844, 

 167.— P>oNAPARTE, C'onsp. Av., i, 1850, 271. 



T[urdus] densirostris Gkay, Gen. Birds, i, 1847, 219. 



[Turdus] densirostris Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 259, no. 3786. 



CicMerminia densirostris Bon AVAUT'E, Compt. Rend., xxxviii, 1854, 2, footnote. 



Cichlherminia densirostris Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mas., aI, LS8I, 330, part 

 (Dominica; Martinique; Guadeloupe; Montserrat). 



Cichlherminia fuscata densirostris Verrill (G. E.), Trans. Conn. Acad. Sci., viii, 

 April, 1892, 346 (Dominica; habits; song; descr. nest and eggs). 



Margarops densirostris Sclater, Proc. Zool. Sbc. Lond., 1859, 336 (monogr.; 

 Guadeloupe; Martinique); 1879, 765 (Montserrat); 1889, 395 (Santa Lucia).- 

 Baird, Review Am. Birds, 1864, 59. — Lawrence, Proc. U. S. Nat Mus., i. 

 1878, 52 (Dominica; habits); i, 1879, 351 (Martinique), 453 (Guadeloui)e), 486, 

 part (Guadeloupe; Dominica; Martinique). — Allen, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 

 V, 1880, 166 (Santa Lucia).— Cory, Ibis, 1886, 474 (Desiradej; Auk, iii, 1886, 

 15; iv, 1887, 95 (Dominica, Martiniciue, and Santa Lucia; crit.); Birds West 

 Ind., 1889, 29.— FEiLDEN,*Ibis, 1889, 480 (Barbados). 



[Margarops] densirostris Sciater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 2. — Cory,- 

 List Birds West Ind., 1885, 6.— Sharpe, Hand-list, iv, 1903, 110. 



Margarops fuscatus densirostris Cory, Auk, viii, Jan., 1891, 43, part (Anguilla; 

 Montserrat; Dominica; Martiniciue; (Juadeloupe; Sanla Lucia; Barbados); 

 Cat. West Ind. P.irds, 1892, 121, pari. 



Genus RAMPHOCINCLUS Lafresnaye. 



Ramphodnchis Lai^resnaye, Rev. Zool., vi, 184:>, ()6. (Type, Turdus bracJiyunis 



Vieillot.) 

 Rhamphodnclus (emendation) Scl.vter, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 337. 

 Legriocinclus Lesson, Descr. Mamm. et Ois., 1847, 278. (Type, Petrodroma 



mexicana Lessou= Turdus bracJiyuriis Vieillot.) 

 Cinclops Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xxxviii, 1854, 1, 64, footnote. (Nomen 



nudum!) 



Medium-sized Mimidae. (length about 200 mm.), with tail much 

 shorter than ^ving, long and decurved bill (exposed culmen about 

 equal to middle toe without claw), distinct rictal bristles, the colora- 

 tion ])lain sooty brown above, white beneath. 



Bill slightly shorter than head, or about as long, slightly though 

 distinctly decurved for terminal half, its width at frontal antiae 

 about ec^ual to its height at same point; exposed culmen about 

 equal in length to middle toe without claw or slightly longer, straight 

 l)asally but soon becoming gently decurved, the terminal portion 

 strongly decurved; gonys straight basally, faintly concave subter- 



aMr. Cory (Cat. Birds West Indies, p. 121) includes in the range of this form also 

 the islands of Anguilla, St. Eustatius, St. Christopher, Barbuda, and Antigua. I have 

 not been able to examine a si)ecimen from Anguilla, but thos(> seen liy me from the 

 other islands named lam unal)l(! to distinguish Iroiu (rue M. fiiscaliis. In Il)is, 1886, 

 474, Mr. Cory also cites the form from Desirade. 



