Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. 



Merula gymnophthalma (Cabax.). 



Turdus gymnopJithal- 

 mus Cab. Schonib. 

 Reis. Guian. Ill, p. 

 665 (1S48). — Gray, 

 Handl. Bds. I, p. 257 

 (1S69). — ScL. & Salv. 

 Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 

 I (1S73). — Seebohm, 

 Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. 

 V, p. 212 (1881). 



Turdus gyinnopsis "Temm." fide Bp. Consp. I, p. 272 (1S50). 



Turdus nudigenis Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1848, p. 4. — Leot. Ois. Trinid. p. 

 20 (1S66). 



Turdus caribbceus Lawr. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. I, p. 160 (1S78) ; ib. Pr. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus. I, p. 486 (1878). 



Turdus gymuogenys ScL. & Salv. Ibis, 1879, P- 357- 



Merula gymnophthalma CoRY, List Bds. W. I. p. 5 (18S5). 



Sp. Char. Male: — Above dull olive brown; underparts pale brown; 

 throat pale, mottled with dull brown; belly pale, showing markings 

 of dull white on the crissum ; under wing-coverts pale rufous. 

 The sexes are similar. 



Length (skin), 8.50; wing, 4.75; tail, 4; tarsus, 1.15. 

 Habitat. Grenada, Trinidad, and Tobago. 

 Specimens taken in Grenada vary slightly in size and colora- 

 tion fi'om South American examples, but are appai'ently the same. 



Merula nigrirostris (Lawr.). 



Turdus nigrirostris Lawr. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. I, p. 147 (1878). — 

 Lister, Ibis, iSSo, p. 39. — Seebohm, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. V, p. 

 218 (1881). 



Merula nigrirostris Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 5 (18S5). 



"Female : — Front, crown, and occiput dark warm brown, each feather of 

 the crown and occiput with a shaft-stripe of dull pale rufous; upper 

 plumage reddish olivaceous brown, deeper in color on the upper 

 part of the back and on the wing-coverts; the latter have their 

 ends marked with small spots of bright rufous, which possibly may 

 be an evidence of the example not being fully mature ; the tail is of 

 a dark warm brown, the shafts black; inner webs of quills blackish 

 brown; the outer webs reddish brown, of the same color as the tail- 

 feathers; the shafts are glossy black; under lining of wings clear 

 cinnamon red ; under plumage light brownish ash, with the middle 

 of the abdomen and the crissum white; on the upper part of the 

 breast a few feathers end with dark reddish brown, forming an irreg- 



