48. CrCHLHERMlNlA. 329 



wing-coverts and axillaries pure white, narrowly edged with dark 

 brown or sandy brown ; quills ashy brown below, lighter along 

 the edge of the inner web ; " iris tea-colour" (Oher). Total length 

 9 inches, culmeu 1-1, wing 4-65, tail 3-1, tarsus 1-65. (2Jus. Calvin 

 ^' Godman.) 



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

 island of Dominica. 



4. CichlhermiTiia fascata. 



Tardus fuseatus, J'ieill. Ois. Amer. sept. ii. p. 1, pi. 57 bis (1807) ; 



id. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xx. p. 226 (1816) ; Bonn, et Vieill. Enc. 



Meth. p. 639 (1823) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 219 (1847) ; Bp. Consp. 



i. p. 276 (1850) ; Grmj, Hand-l B. i. p. 259, no. 3785. 

 Colluricincla fusea, Gould, P. Z. S. 1836, p. 6. 

 Mimus fuseatus, Bp. C. B. xxxviii. p. 2, note (1854). 

 Cichlalopia fuseatus, Bp. Bev. Zool. 1857, p. 204. 

 Cichlherminia fuscata, A. 4'- B. Newt. Ibis, 1859, p. 335. 

 Margarops fuseatus, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 335 ; id. Cat. Amer. B. 



p. 6 (1862) ; Baird, Beview Amer. B. p. 42 (1864) ; Sd. (§• Salv. 



Noniencl. Av. Neotr. p. 2 (1873) ; Cory, Birds of the Bahamas, p. 47 



(1880). 



Adult (S. Croix; A. Newton). General colour above dark brown, 

 the feathers edged with lighter brown, producing a mottled appear- 

 ance, these light edges paler on the rump aiid upper tail-coverts, the 

 longer of the latter being margined with white ; wing-coverts like 

 the back and margined in the same manner, but the edgings are 

 whitish at the tips of the greater and median series ; bastard wing 

 and primary-coverts verj- dark brown ; quills dark brown, externally 

 lighter brown, the inner secondaries narrowly edged with white at 

 the tips ; tail-feathers brown, margined with lighter brown, all but 

 the two centre feathers having a large white spot at the end of the 

 inner webs, increasing in extent towards the outermost, where it 

 also occupies the end of the outer web also ; lores dusky brown, as 

 also the feathers under the fore part of the eye ; ear-coverts brown ; 

 cheeks streaked with blackish brown and white, the feathers being 

 margined with white arranged in streaks ; under surface of body 

 white, the throat distinctly streaked with light brown ; fore neck 

 more broadly mottled with light brown, the feathers having a central 

 ovate mark of light brown edged -^vith white, and centred with a 

 dark shaft-streak, the light brown centre having a subterminal shade 

 of darker brown separating it from the white margin ; sides of body 

 and flanks similarly coloured ; centre of abdomen and under tail- 

 covcrts white, the latter with a brown base and an arrow-shaped bar 

 across the middle ; axiUaries and under wing-coverts Ught brown, 

 fringed with white and centred with darker brown, very much like 

 the sides of the breast in character of markings ; quills ashy brown 

 below, light sandy bufl' along the inner web ; " iris pearly white " 

 {A. Newton). Total length 11 inches, culmen 1-4, wing 5-3, 

 taU 4-5, tarsus 1*5. 



The White-eyed Mocking-Thrush inhabits the islands of S. Croix 



