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Herminier's Mocking-Thrush is confined to the Lesser Antilles, 

 where it inhabits the islands of Martinique, Guadeloupe, St. Vincent, 

 and Santa Lucia. 

 . a. Ad. sk. Guadeloupe. M. Verreaux. 



2. Cichlherminia sanctse luciae. 



Margarops sanctfe lucise, Sclater, Ibis, 1880, p. 73. 

 Margarops herminieri, var. semperi, Later. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mm. 1880, 

 p. 16. 



Adult. General colour above ruddy brown, a little darker on the 

 head ; ■wdng-coverts like the back ; quills dark brown, externally 

 like the back ; tail-feathers brown, with a bronzy gloss ; lores and 

 base of lower mandible rufous ; ear-coverts and sides of face like 

 the back, with fulvous streaks on the former ; throat fulvescent, 

 with ruddy-brown streaks ; fore neck and breast ruddy brown, all 

 the feathers distinctly centred with buffj' white, producing a strongly 

 mottled appearance, which is continued down the sides of the body, 

 where the centres of the feathers are larger and whiter ; abdomen 

 and under tail-coverts white, the feathers edged with ruddy brown 

 on the lower breast ; the under tail-coverts with ruddy-brown bases; 

 axillaries and under wing-coverts white, with yellowish-brown 

 edges ; the coverts near the edge of the wing brown, with whitish 

 spots ; quills brown, edged with rufous along the inner web ; " feet 

 bright yellow ; iris dull green " (Semjier). Total length 10 inches, 

 culmen 1"15, wing 5-15, tail 3'8, tarsus 1-6. (3Ius. P. L. Sclater.) 



Semper's Mocking-Thrush replaces the foregoing species in the 

 island of Santa Lucia. 



8. Cichlherminia dominicensis. 



Margarops herminieri, Latcrence, Proc. U.S. Nat. 3It(S. i. p. 187 



(1879, iiec Lafr.). 

 Margarops dominicensis, Later, op. cit. 1880, p. 16. 



Adult male (Dominica ; F. A. Ober). General colour above dark 

 olive-brown, the head rather dxiller, and having obscure dusky 

 margins to the feathers : wing-coverts like the back ; quiUs dark 

 brown, externally like the back ; tail-feathers dark brown, washed 

 on their edges with olive-brown like the back ; lores blackish brown ; 

 sides of face and ear-coverts russet-brown, the feathers mesially 

 streaked with deep ochraceous buif ; a few streaks of ochraceous 

 buff above the ear- coverts on the side of the crown ; throat and 

 chest rich ochraceous buff, the feathers broadly edged with fulvous- 

 brown and spotted with black at the ends, these spots being very 

 distinct ; remainder of under surface of body white, with fulvous- 

 brown margins, sometimes blackish ; the whole breast and abdomen 

 strongly mottled, except on the lower abdomen, which is white, like 

 the under tail-coverts ; the longer feathers of the latter margined 

 with olive-brown ; thighs olive-brown, tipped •nnth white ; under 



