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Genus Mimus Boie. 

 Minius Boie, Isis, 1826, p. 972. 



Mimus polyglottus (Linn.). 



Turdus polyglotfus Linn. Syst. Nat. I, p. 293 (1766). 



Orpheus polyglottus D'Orb. in La Sagra's Hist. Mat. Cuba, Ois. p. 53 



(1840). 

 Mimus polyglottusBRKWviR, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VH, p. 307 (i860).— 



GuNDL. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 230 (1865) (Cuba); ib. 



J. f. O. 1872, p. 40S (Cuba).— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 6 (18S5). 



Cuban specimens of this bird are very rare. A specimen in 

 my collection is labelled, in the handwriting of Dr. Gundlach, 

 Mimi/s polyglottus cnbensis. It is apparently M. elegans^ al- 

 though somewhat larger, and may represent a new race. Perhaps 

 both species are represented there, as I have seen specimens of 

 polyglottus labelled "Cuba." 



Mimus orpheus (Linn.). 



Turdus orpheus Linn. Sjst. Nat. I, p. 293 (1766). — Vieill. Ois. Am. 

 Sept. II, p. 12, pi. 68 (1807).— GossE, Bds. Jam. p. 144 (1S47). 



Mimus orpheus Gray, Gen. Bds. I, p. 221 (1844). — ^p. Consp. I, p. 276 

 (1850).— March, Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, p, 290.— Baird, 

 Rev. Am. Bds. p. 50 (1864).— ScL. & Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. 

 P- 3 (1873)-— A. «& E. Newton, Handb. Jamaica, p. 105 (1881). — 

 Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. VI, p. 340 (i88i).— Cory, List Bds. 

 W.I. p. 6 (1885). 



Mimus polyglottus Gosse, Bds. Jam. p. 144 (1847). — Albrecht, J. f. O. 

 1862, pp. 194, 201. — Hill, Pr. Acad. Nat Sci. Phila. 1863, p. 304.— 

 GuNDL. Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. VII, p. 173 (1878). 



Mimus polyglottus var. portoricensis Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 

 XI, p. 68 (1866). 



Mitnus polyglottus var. cubanensis Bryant, t. c. p. 68. 



Sp. Char. — Above grayish brown, showing ashy on the back; underparts 

 white, showing a tinge of ash on the breast; wings brown, prima- 

 ries heavily marked with white, the eighth and ninth almostentirely 

 white; tail dark brown, outer feather entirely white, second nearly 

 so, showing a brownish line, on outer web more or less distinct, 

 * third feather having outer web brown, inner web white; bill black; 

 legs brownish. 



Length, 9.50; wing, 4.30; tail, 5; tarsus, 1.20. 

 Habitat. Jamaica and Grand Cayman. 



