53. MiMus. 339 



edged with ashy and tipped with spots of ashy white ; bastard wing- 

 feathers black, tipped with white ; primary- coverts white with black 

 shaft-lines ; quills blackish, narrowly edged with brown and tipped 

 with white, the primaries white at the base with black shafts, 

 increasing in extent on the outer secondaries, which are white, 

 blackish at the ends, which are tipped with white, the in- 

 nermost secondaries dark brown, tipped with white and broadly 

 edged with ashy brown ; tail-feathers blackish, narrowly tipped 

 with pale ashy brown, increasing in extent towards the outer 

 feathers, the outermost entirely white, the penultimate one white, 

 excepting the outer web which is blackish ; the thii-d feather blackish, 

 with a large wedge-shaped mark of white on the inner web ; lores 

 dusky, with a whitish streak above them, slightly indicated above 

 the eye ; eyelid white; ear- coverts ashy brown, mottled with white 

 below the eye ; cheeks dull white, mottled with dusky tips to the 

 feathers ; throat and abdomen white, the fore neck and sides of body 

 light ashy brown, the lower abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts 

 tinged with light ochraceous buff ; thighs white ; axillaries white, 

 slightly washed with ashy brown ; under wing-coverts white, with 

 dusky brown bases ; quills dark brown below, white towards the 

 base of the inner web. Total length 10 inches, culmen 0'9, wing 

 4-45, tail 4-9, tarsus 1-2. 



The American Mocking-Thrush is found in North America up to 

 40° N. lat., ranging into Mexico and Central America in Avinter. 



a, h. Ad. sk. North America. 



c, (/. Ad. sk. North America. 



e. Ad. sk. North America. Purchased, 



/, Ad. sk. Mexico. Pm-chased. 



2. Mimus elegans. 



Mimus polyglottus (vai\ bahamensis ?), Bryant, Bost. Jouni. N. Hist. 



xi. p. 68 (1866). 

 Mimus dominicus, Grmj, Hand-l. B. i. p. 262, no. 3826 (1869, nee L.). 

 Mimus orpheus, var. domiaicus, Cory, B. Bahama Isl. p. 48 (1880). 



Adult. General colour above light ashy grey, the least wing- 

 coverts like the back ; median and greater coverts dark brown, 

 edged with ashy and tipped with white ; primary-coverts white, 

 with a large subterminal spot of blackish near the tip ; quills black- 

 ish, externally margined with ashy grey, the primaries with a con- 

 cealed white spot at their base, the inner secondaries tipped with 

 white ; quills dark brown, edged with ashy, the outermost feather 

 cntii'ely white, the penultimate feather for the most part white, 

 blackish brown along the inner web and toward the end of the 

 outer web, the third feather with a large white wedge-shaped mark 

 near the end ; a line at the base of the forehead white, extending 

 above the eye, where it foims a faint eyebrow ; eyelid white ; in 

 front of the eye a dusky blackish spot ; ear- coverts light ashy brown, 



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