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dark brown, slightly tipped with dull white, wanting on the two 

 middle feathers ; legs bluish black; bill black; iris yellow. 

 The female resembles the male. 



Length, about ii; wing, 5; tail, 5; tarsus, 1.60; bill, .90. 

 Habitat. Bahama Islands and Cuba. 



After a careful examination and comparison of a series of 

 twenty-two of the so-called J/, bahaynensis and three specimens 

 of M. gundlachi., I can not find any difference sufficient to 

 characterize them as distinct species. One specimen from 

 Cuba has more white on the tail-feathers than any from the 

 Bahama Islands, but some of the latter show the white fully as 

 much as the other Cuban examples. A large series from Cuba 

 would determine the matter more satisfactorily. 



Mimus hillii March. 



Mimus hillii March, Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, p. 291. — Baird, 

 Rev. Am. Bds. p. 52 (1S64). — Gray, Handl. Bds. I, p. 262 (1S69). — 

 ScL. & Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 3 (1S73). — Sharpe, Cat. Bds. 

 Brit. Mus. VI, p. 343 (18S1).— Cory, List Bds. W. L p. 6 (1S85). 



Mimus orpheus HiLL, Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, p. 304.— Gray, 

 Handl. Bds. I, p. 262 (1869). 



Mimus hilli A. & E. Newton, Handb. Jamaica, p. 105 (iSSi). 



Sp. Char. — General appearance the same as that of M. gundlachi, differing 

 from it by being slightly browner on the head, and somewhat paler 

 on the imderparts, with more white on the end of the tail-feathers. 

 Length (skin), 11.20; wing, 5; tail, 5.75; tarsus, 1.55. 

 Habitat. Jamaica. 



Very closely allied to M. gundlac/ii, and perhaps ought not 

 to be separated from it. 



Family SYLVIID^. 



Genus Polioptila Scl. 

 Polioptila Sclater, P. Z. S. 1S55, p. 11. 



Polioptila lembeyi (Gundl.). 



Culicivora letnbyei Gundl. Ann. N. Y. Lye. 185S, p. 273. — Brewer, Pr. 

 Bost. Soc Nat. Hist. VH, p. 306 (i860).— Albrecht, J. f. O. 1861, 

 p. 211. 



