BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 27 1 



AduU female.— Length (skins), 200-222 (214); ^v^ng, 107 109 

 (107.7); tail, 85-90 (87.7); exposed ciilmen, 25-27 (25.7); tarsus, 

 33-35 (34.3) ; middle toe, 23-25 (23.7). « 



Island of Santa Lucia, Lesser Antilles. 



Rhaviphocinclus brachyurus (not Turdiis hrarhyurus Vieillot) Sclatek, Proc. 



Zool. Soc. Ivond.. 1859, 338, part (Santa Lucia-); 1889, 395(Santa Lucia); Proc. 



Zool. Soc. Lond.. 1871, 268 (Santa Lucia). — Semper, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 



1872, 648 (Santa Lucia; habits).— Allen, BulL Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 



166 (Santa Lucia). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vi, 1881, 325, part (Santa 



Lucia). — ^CoRY, Ibis, 1886, 475 (Santa Lucia). 

 [Rainphocinclus] brachyurus Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr.,1873, 2, part 



(Santa Lucia). — Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885, 6, part (Santa Lucia). 

 liamphocindus brachyurus Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 16, part (Santa Lucia). 

 [Ci7icloccrihia] brachyurus Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 264, no. 3856, part (Santa 



T^icia). 

 ]\h(U)i.phocinc.lus sanciiv-lucuv Cory, Auk, iv^ Apr., 1887, 94 (Santa Lucia, Lesser 



Antilles; coll. C. B. Cory): v, 1888, 157; Birds West Ind., 1889, 285. 

 lihamphocinchis brachyurus sanUv-lacuc Cory, Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892,19,121, 



133, 156. 

 [JUianiphocinchis] sancdv-lucuv Sharpe, Hand-list, iv, 1903, 110. 



Genus CINCLOCERTHIA Gray. 



Stenorhynchus (not of Lamarck, 1819, Meigen, 1823, Latreille,1825, nor Cuvier, 

 1826).— Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1835, 186. (Type, -S'.rM^cai^da Gould.) 



Cinclocerthia Gray, List Gen. Birds, 1840, 17. (Type, Stenorhynchus rufi.cauda 

 Gould.) 



L' Herminierus Lesson, Rev. Zool., vi, Nov., 1843, 325, in text. (Tyjje, H. 

 guadelupensis Lesson, = Stenorhynchus ruficauda Gould.) 



Medium-sized to rather large Mimidse (length about 200-250 mm.), 

 with long, straight bill (exposed culmen at least as long as middle toe 

 with claw, sometimes longer than tarsus) , tail not longer than distance 

 from ])end of wing to tip of longest secondaries, rictal bristles indistinct 

 or obsolete, and plain dull brown or gra^nsh coloration. 



Bill straight or nearly so, as long as or longer than head, about as 

 broad as high, or slightly broader than liigh, at frontal antise; exposed 

 culmen at least as long as middle toe with claw, sometimes (in 0. 

 macrorhyncha) longer than tarsus, gently convex or nearly straight for 

 most of its length; gonys straight or yery faintly conyex, slightly 

 ascending terminally, its base slightly prominent; maxillary tomiuni 

 straight for most of its length, distinctly notched subterminally. 

 Nostril narrowly oyate or elliptical, margined aboye and behind by 

 membrane. Rictal bristles obsolete, or yery indistinct. Wing mod- 

 erate or rather long, the longest primaries exceeding secondaries 

 by much less than length of middle toe without claw; outermost 

 (tenth) primary decidedly more than half as long as ninth (sometimes 

 half as long as eighth), the ninth equal to third or intermediate 



a Three specimens. 



