542 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



grayish ; both rows of wing-coverts tij^ped with dull white ; wing 



4.30-4.50 (4.40), tail 4.90-5.20 (5.02), culmen .65-.67 (.66), tarsus 



1.20-1.35 (1.27). Hab. Southern Mexico (Isthmus of Tehuan- 



tepec). 



M. lawrencei Kidgw. Tehuantepec Mockingbird.' 



c^ Above ash-gray, the wings deep black, with pure white edgings ; both 

 rows of coverts very sharply tipped with pure white; wing 4.15- 

 4.80 (4.49), tail 5.00-5.80 (5.38), culmcu .70-.75 (.72), tarsus 1.20- 

 1.37 (1.31). IZab. Atlantic lowlands, from Yucatan (including Cozu- 

 mel Island) to Honduras. 



M. gracilis Cab. Yucatan Mockingbird.* 

 a}. Above grayish brown, the feathers with distinctly darker centres ; lateral tail- 

 feathers merely tipped with white (chiefly on inner webs) ; flanks broadly 

 and conspicuously streaked with dusky. 



Adult : Beneath dull white, strongly tinged with brownish gray on breast ; 

 a series of dusky streaks along each side of throat ; wing 4.70-5.00, tail 

 5.30-5.70, culmen .82-.95, tarsus 1.45-1.60. Hah. Bahamas, Cuba, and 

 Jamaica. 



M. gundlachii Cab. Gundlach's Mockingbird.' 



Genus GALEOSCOPTES Cabanis. (Page 539, pi. CXX., fig. 2.) 



Species. 



Adult : Uniform plumbeous-slate, paler beneath ; top of head and tail black ; 

 lower tail-coverts chestnut ; bill and feet black ; iris brown. Young : Similar to 

 the adult, but black cap fainter and less sharply defined, lower parts very faintly 

 mottled, transvei'sely, with darker, and lower tail-coverts dull light rusty. Length 

 8.00-9.35, wing 3.45-3.75, tail 3.70-4.25, culmen .65-.75, tarsus 1.05-1.15 ; female 

 averaging a little smaller. JVest of rootlets, etc., in thickets, orchards, etc. Eggs 

 3-5, .93 X .69, plain deep bluish green. JIab. Eastern North America, north to about 

 54° in the interior ; west to and including Eocky Mountains ; in winter, southern 

 United States (from about 37°) and south to Cuba and Panama. 



704. G. carolinensis (Linn.). Catbird. 



Genus MIMODES Eidgway.* (Page 539, ph CXIX., fig. 6.) 



Species. 



Adult : Above plain brown, the wings and tail more grayish ; greater wing- 

 coverts and secondaries (except toward base) edged with fulvous-brown, the former 

 indistinctly tipped with lighter fulvous ; primaries edged with light brownish gray ; 

 inner webs of three outer tail-feathers marked at tip with a very indistinct pale 



1 Mimus gilvus, y. lawrencei Ridgw., Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. v. June 5, 1882, 11. 



2 Mimiia gracilis Cab., Mus. Hein. i. Jan. 1851, 83. 



^ Mimus gundlachii Cab., Journ. fiir Orn. 1855, 470. 



* Mimodes Ridgw., Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. v. June 12, 1882, 45. Type, Harporhynclms graysoni Baird. 



