282 TUUDIDJ3. 



Bahama Islands in the West Indies, being especially abundant on 

 New Providence and Abaco. 



The British ilusoum does not possess an example of this species. 

 Skins are in the collections of Dr. Sclater, Messrs. Salvin and Godman, 

 and in my own. 



2. Mimocichla ardesiaca. 



Le Merle cendre d"Arat'rique, Briss. Orn. ii. p. 288 {\1(!^,2}artim); 



Daubent. PL Eitl. no. oUO. fig. i. (1775). 

 Tardus pluuibeus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 294 (17(3G). 

 Le Tilly, ou la Grive eeudree d'Amerique, Month. Hist. Nat. Ois. iii. 



^. Al^ (l~7o,parti)u). 

 Eed-legged Thrush, Lath. Gen. Si/n. ii. pt. 1, p. 33 (178-3, parfini). 

 Tardus plumbeus, Linn., J, apud Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. S>l4: (1788), 



apud Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 334 (1790). 

 Tardus plumbeus, Linn., J'ieill. Hist. Nat. Ois. de VAmer. sept. ii. 

 p. 2, pi. Iviii. (1807) ; Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xx. p. 242 

 (1818). 

 Turdus ardosiaceus, Vieill. Encijclop. 3Ieth. p. 646 (1823). 

 Mimus phunbeus {Linn.), Gray, Gen.B. i. p. 221 (1847) ; Bp. Consp. 



i. p. 276 (18-'50). 

 Galeoscoptes plumbeus (I/inn.), Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 82 (1850) ; 



Sclater, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 231 ; id. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 337. 

 Mimocichla ardosiacea ( Vieill.), Baird, Eev. Am. B. i. p. 39 (18(34) ; 



Gundlach, Journ. Orn. 1878, p. 165. 

 Mimocichla ardesiaca {V'eill.), Scl. i^- Sal v. Noinencl. Av. Neotr. p. 2 

 (1873). 

 General colour of the upper parts slate-gi-ey, the feathers on the 

 head with black centres ; lores black ; ear-coverts slate-grey ; no 

 trace of eye-stripe ; wings, wing-coverts, and innermost secondaries 

 dark brown, broadly edged on the outside web with slate-grey ; tail- 

 feathei-s nearly black, edged on the outside web with slate-grey ; 

 outer tail-feathers very broadly tipped with wliite, the two next 

 on each side less broadly so, and the two next only spotted at the 

 tips. Chin and upper throat white, each feather having a fan- 

 shaped terminal black spot ; the rest of the underparts pale slate- 

 grey, shading into white on the centre of the belly and under 

 tail-coverts ; axillaries and under wing-coverts slate-gi-ey ; inner 

 margin of quills pale slaty brown. Bill yellow above and below. 

 Wing with the third, fourth, and fifth primaries nearly equal and 

 longest, second primary between the seventh and eighth, bastard 

 primary 1-2 to 1-1 inch. Legs, feet, and claws coral-red. Tail 

 with tiie outside feathers 0-4 to 0-6 inch shorter than the longest. 

 Length of wing 5-05 to 4-9 inches, tail 4-6 to 4-0, culmen 1-1 to 1-06, 

 tarsus 1*52 to I'o. 



The female does not differ from the male except in being slightly 

 smaller. Young in first plumage are browner in colour, and have 

 ochraceous tips to the wing-coverts ; the feathers of the breast are 

 slate-grey, with ochraceous shaft-lines and dark tips. 



The St.-Domiugo Mocking-bird Thrush apjjears to be confined to 

 the islands of Porto Eico and St. Domingo, where it is a resident. 



a. Ad. sk. Porto Rico {Dr. Bryant). Mrs. Bryant [P.]. 



