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Cory 021 the Birds of the West Indies. 



iSSo, p. 39.— Allen, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, V, p. 166 (iS8o).— 

 Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 6 (1SS5). 



Cichlheriiiinia jnontana Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. VI, p. 330 (1S81). 



Sp. Char. Male: — Upper plumage dark olive brown; throat and breast 

 brown, the feathers edged with white ; feathers of the lower breast 

 dull white, banded with pale brown, the whole giving a mottled 

 white and brown appearance to the underparts; wings and tail 

 dark brown ; the inner secondaries and some of the coverts tipped 

 with white; tail-feathers tipped with white ; bill and feet dark brown. 

 The female is somewhat lighter brown than the male on the under 

 surface. 



Length (skin), 9.20; wing, 4.55; tail, 3.75; tarsus, i; bill, .65. 



Habitat. Martinique, St. Vincent, Dominica, Santa Lucia, 



Guadeloupe and Grenada. 



Genus Ramphocinclus Lafr. 



Ra7nj)hocinclHS Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1843, P- 66. 



Ramphocinclus brachyurus (Vieill.). 



Turdus hrachyurus\YK\\A.. Nouv. Diet. XX, p. 255 (iSiS). — Gray, Gen. 



Bds. L P- 219 (1844). 

 Pterodroma mexicanus Less. Ann. Soc. Nat. 2d ser. IX, p. 168 (1S38). 

 Ramphocinclus brachyurus Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1843, p. 66. — Taylor, Ibis, 



1864, p. 166. — Baird, Rev. Am. Bds. p. 41 (1864). — Gray, Handl. 



Bds. I, p. 254 (1869). — ScL. & Salv. Norn. Avium Neotr. p. 2 (1873). 



— Lawr. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. I, p. 486 (1878).— Cory, List Bds. 



W. I. p. 6 (1S85). 

 Formicarius brachyurus Gray, Gen. Bds. I, p. 211 (1844). 

 Legriocinclus mcxicatius Less. Descr. Mamm. et Ois. p. 278 (1847). 

 Camfylorhynchus brachyurus Gray, Gen. Bds. Ill, App. p. 7 (1849). 

 Zoothcra cinclops Bp. Consp. I, p. 253 (1850). 

 Cincloccrihia brachyurus ScL. P. Z. S. 1855, p. 214. 

 Rkamphocinclus brachyurus Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, P- 33^; — Sharpe, Cat. 



Bds. Brit. Mus. VI, p. 325 (1S81). 



