52. GALEOSCOPTES. 335 



south to Cape St. Lucas. Birds from the latter locality are rather 

 smaller, according to Prof. Baird. 



a. Ad. sk. [W. North America *.] Purchased. 



52. GALEOSCOPTES. ^^^^ 



Galeoscoptes, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 82 (1850) .... G. carolinensis. 

 Felivox, Bp. Comptes Rendus, xxxviii. p. 56 (1854) . . G. carolinensis. 



Range. North America, extending into Central America on migra- 

 tion. 



1. Galeoscoptes carolinensis. 



The Cat Bird, Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carol, i. p. 66, pi. 66 (1731- 

 1743). 



Muacicaj-a carohnensis, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 328 (1766). 



Lucar lividus, Bartr. Trav. Florida, 1790, p. 290 bis. 



Tardus felivox, Vieill. Ois. Amer. sept. ii. p. 10, pi. 67 (1807) ; 

 Audub. B. Amer. pi. 128 (c. 1826) ; id. Orn. Biogr. ii. p. 171, v. 

 p. 440 ; Nutt. Man. i. p. 332 (1832). 



Turdus Uvidus, Wik. Amer. Orn. ii. p. 90, pi. 14. fig. 3 (1810). 



Turdus carolinensis, Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 38 (1823). 



Orpheus feUvox, S2vai7is. Faun. Bor.-Am., Birds, p. 192 (1831). 



Mimus felivox, Bp. Camp. List B. Fur. ^- N. A7n, p. 18 (1838) ; id. 

 Consp. i. p. 276 (1850). 



Orpheus carolinensis, Audub. B. Amer. ii. p. 195, pi. 140 (1841). 



Mimus carolinensis, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 221 (1847); Scl. P. Z. S. 

 1856, p. 294 ; Baird, B. N. Amer. p. 346 (1860) ; Grarj, Hand-l. 

 B. i. p. 202, no. 3840 (1869) ; Coues, Key N.-Amer. B. p. 74 

 (1872) ; Allen, Bull. Mus.Comp. Zool. iii. p. 174 (1871) ; 3Iaynard, 

 B. Florida, p. 19 (1872) ; Coues, B. N.- West, p. 8 (1874) ; Cory, 

 B. Bahamas, p. 51 (1880). 



Galeoscoptes cai-olinensis, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 82 (1850) ; Scl. 

 P. Z. S. 1859, pp. 362, 370 ; Scl. S,- Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 7 ; Scl. Cat 

 Amer. B. p. 6 (1862) ; Baird, Eeview Amer. B. p. .54 (1864) 

 Scl. Sf Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 278 ; Sumichr. Mem. Bost. Soc. N H. 

 i. p. 544 (1869); Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 204 (1869) 

 Cooper, Orn. Calif, p. 23 (1870) ; Scl. 8,- Salv. P. Z. S. 1870,'p. 836 

 iid. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 2 (1873) ; Gundl. Orn. Cub. p. 19 (1876) 

 Baird, Brewer, Sr Ridgw. N. Amer. B. i. p. 52 (1874) ; Merrill, 

 Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. i. p. 120 (1878) ; Godm. ^- Salv. Biol. Centr.- 

 Amer., Aves, i. p. 26 (1879) ; Ridgto. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 21, 

 p. 12 (1881). 



Felivox carolinensis, Bp. Comptes Rendus, xxxviii. p. 56 (1854). 



Lucar carolinensis, Coues, Pr. Philad. Acad. 1875, p. 349. 



Mimus (Galeoscoptes) carolinensis, Cows, B. Color. Vail. p. 56 (1878). 



Adult. General colour above dark slaty grey, a little more dusky 

 on the mantle ; wing-coverts like the hack, the bastard wing-feathers 

 rather lighter grey ; greater and primary-coverts dusky brown, 

 externally slaty grey ; quills blackish, externally edged with ashy 

 grey, the secondaries more like the back in colour ; tail-feathers 



* Said to have been from Mexico. 



