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a. S. p. R. E, EXP. AND SURVEYS — ZOOLOGY — GENERAL REPORT, 



MIMUS CAROLINENSIS, Gray. 



Cat Bird. 



J>Iitscicapa carolinsnsis, Linxaehs, Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 328. 



Tardus carolinensis, Licht. Vcrz. 1823, 33. — D'Orbigsjt, in Da Li Sacra's Cuba, 51. 



Orpkeus earoliiunsis, Ann. Syn. 1839, 88. — Ib. Birds Amsr. 11, 1841, 10.") ; pi. 140. 



•Mimus carolinittsis, Gray, Genera, 1844-'49. 



Gakoscoptes carolinensis, Cabanis, Mus. Hein. 1851, 82. 



Felivox carolinensis, Bomap. Comptes Rendus, XXVIII, 1853 : Notes Orn. Delattre, 39. Typo. 



Turdus filivox, Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept. II, 1807, 10; pi. Ixvii.— Bon. Obs. Wilson, 1825, J. A. N. S. IV, 30.— 

 AoD Cm. Biog. II, 1831, 171 : V, 1839, 440 ; pl. 123. 



Orpheus felivox, Swaiwson, F. Bor. .\m. II, 1831, 192. 



Mimus felivox, Bon. List, 1838. — Ib. Conspectus, 1850, 276. 



Turdus lividus, Wilson, Am. Orn. II, 1810, 90 ; pl. xiv, f. 3. (Not of Lichtonstein.) 



?Spodesi/(iiira, Reichenb. Av. Syst Nat. 1850; pi. liii. (According to Gray the figure be'on^s to the present species, 

 which, however, lacks the notch of bill sliown in the plate. According to Bonaparte, Pijrrocheira, 

 Reich, pl. liii, represents ctirolincnsis, wliich seems more probable.) 



Sp. Ch — Third quill longest; first shorter tlian si.^tli. Prevailing color dark plumbeous, more ashy beneath. Cruwn and 

 nape dark sooty brown. Wings dark brown, edged with plumbeous. Tail greenish black ; the lateral feathers obscurely tipped 

 with plumbeous. Tli3 under tail coverts dark brownish chesnut. Female smaller. Length, 8.85 ; wing, 3.65 ; tail, 4.00 ; 

 tarsus, 1.05. 



Ilab. — Eastern United States to the Missouri. 



The tail is considerably graduated ; the lateral feathers .60 of an inch shorter than the middle. 



List of sjpecimens. 



OROSCOPTES, Baird. 



Ch. — Culmon only slightly curved towards the tip. Bill longer and slenderer than in Mimus ; nearly equal to the head. 

 Wings decidedly longer than the tail ; rather pointed ; the first primary less than half the second, which is a quarter of an ineli 

 nhorter than tlie third. Tail rounded ; scarcely graduated. 



In general appearance the species resembles Toxostoma rnfum, though the longer and 

 more pointed wings, shorter and scarcely graduated tail, and rather shorter bill, which is 

 rather more notclied, will at once distinguish them. The shape of the bill is almost precisely 

 the same. In the long, pointed, and little concave wings, with the but slightly graduated tail, 

 there is an approach to the true thrushes. The notch of the bill, however, is less distinct. 



