338 TIMELIID^. 



•with blackish browii ; lower back 

 and rump washed with rusty ; 

 streaks ou tlanks very nan-ow . . modulator, p. 347. 

 tV. Upper siu-face obscui-ely streaked 

 with dusky brown ; lower back and 

 rump scarcel}' lighter than mantle ; 

 streaks ou tlanks very distinct, and 

 more fulvous below than M. mo- 

 dulator saturninus, p. 348. 



f. Ear-coverts entirelv black | melanotis, p. 349. 



(?'! Flanks uniform, not "distinctly spotted ^x^^'^^^"^^'^- '^^^^' 

 streaked. 

 g". Underneath white, sHghtly washed with 

 fulvous on the tlanks ; upper surface grey ; 

 primary-coverts black, with a very nar- 

 row white margin gilvtis, p. 350. 



h". Underneath reddish, the breast ashy 

 brown ; upper surface dull ashy brown, 

 the rump and lower back washed with 

 rusty patagonicus, p. 352. 



1. Mimus polyglottus. 



The Mock Bird, Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carol, p. 27, pi. 27 (1731). 

 Le Grand Moqueur, Briss. Orn. ii. p. 266 (1760). 

 ■ Tm-dus polyglottus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 293 (1766) ; Wih. Am. 



Orn. ii. p'. 13, pi. 10. iig. l" (1810) ; Aubub. B. Amer. pi. 21 ; id. 



Orn. Biotjr. i. p. 108 (1831)'; Less. Traitc d'Orn. p. 410 (1831). 

 Mimus polyglottus, Boie, Isis, 1826, p. 972 ; Bj). Comp. List B. Eur. 



8f N. Amer. p. 17 (1838) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 221 (1847) ; Bp. 



Consp. i. p. 276 (1850) ; Sclater, P. Z. S. 1856, p. 212 ; id. P. Z. S. 



1857, p. 212 ; Neuwied, J. f. O. 1858, p. 179 ; Baird, B. N. Amer. 



p. 344 (1858) ; Sol. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 340 ; id. Cat. Amer. B. p. 8 



(1862) ; Baird, Revieiv Amer. B. p. 48 (1864) ; Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 



p. 481 ; Sumichr. Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 543 (1869) ; Gray, 



Hand-l.B.i. p. 261, no. 3815 (1869) ; Coopm; Orn. Calif, p. 21 (1870) ; 



Alhn, Bull. Mas. Comp. Zool. ii. p. 259 (1871) ; Cortes, Key N. 



Amer. B. p. 74 (1872) ; Grayson, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. xiv. 



p. 277 (1872) ; Maynard, B. Florida, p. 76 (1872) ; Allen, Bidl. 



Mas. Comp. Zool. iii. p. 134 (1872) ; Coues, B. N- West, p. 8 (1874) ; 



Baird, Brewer, i^ Eidgiv. N. Amer. B. i. p. 49, pi. iii. fig. 4 (1874); 



Cmies, B. Color. Vail. p. 54 (1878) ; Ridgw. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mm. 



no. 21, p. 11 (1881). 

 Orpheus polyglottus, Swains. Zool. Journ, iii. p. 167 (1828) ; Audub. 



B. Amer. ii. p. 187, pi. 138 (1847). 

 Orpheus leucopterus. Vigors in Beechcy^s Voy. 'Blossmn,'^. 18 (1839). 

 Mimetes polyglottus, Gloyer, Handb. Naturg. p. 303 (1844). 

 Mimus leucopterus, Baird, in Stansb. Rep. p. 328 (1852). 

 Mimus caudatus, Baird, B. N. Amer. 1858, p. 345 ; Xantm, Pr. 



Philad. Acad. xi. p. 191 (1859). 

 Mimus polyglottus, var. caudatus, Coues, Ibis, 1865, p. 159. 

 Oroscoptes montanus, Coues, Ibis, 1865, p. 159 (lajisu). 



Adult. General colour above light ashy brown, the lesser wing- 

 coverta like the back : greater and median coverts dark brown, 



