340 TIMEHID.E. 



mottled with whitish below the eye ; cheeks whitish, slightly 

 mottled with dusky tips ; under surface of body white, with a very 

 faint ashy shade on the fore neck and sides of breast, the flank- 

 feathers washed with fulvous-brown ; thighs brown externally, 

 white on their inner aspect; axillaries and under wing-coverts 

 whitish, slightly washed with ashy brown ; quills dusky brown 

 below, white at the base of the inner web ; " bill black, legs brownish" 

 {Cory). Total length 8-5 inches, culmen 0-8, wing 3-95, tail 4, 

 tarsus 1'15. 



Bryant's Mocking-Thrush represents M. orphens in the Bahamas, 

 where it is found, as far as is known at present, on the island of 

 Inagua. 



a. Ad. sk. Inagua, Bahama Islands. Dr. Henry Bryant [P.]. 



3. Mimus orpheus. 



Lesser Mock-Bird, Edwards, Nat. Hist. B. ii. pi. 78. 



Le Moqueur, Briss. Orn. ii. p. 2G2 (1760). 



Turdus orpheus, Lhm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 293 (1766) ; Vieill. Ois. Amir. 



se;j<. ii. p. 12, pi. 68(1807). 

 Mimus orpheus. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 221 (1847) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 276 



(1850) ; Sclater, P. Z. S. 1859, p. .341 ; id. Cat. Amer. B. p. 9 (1862) ; 



March, Pr. Philad. Acad. 186.3, p. 290 ; Baird, Reuiexu Amer. B. 



p. 50 (1864) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 261, no. 3816 (1869) ; Scl. ^ 



Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 3 (1873). 

 Mimus polvglottus, Gosse, B. Jamaica, p. 144 (1847); Hill, Proc. 



Philad. Acad. 1863, p. 304. 

 Mimus polygloltus, var. portoricensis, Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. 



X. p. 68 (1866). 

 Mimus polyglottus, var. cubanensis, Bryant, t. c. p. 68. 



Adult male. General colour above dark ashy brown, the lesser 

 wing-coverts like the back ; median and greater coverts blackish, 

 edged with ashy brown and tipped with white, forming a double 

 band across the wing ; bastard wiug-feathers blackish, tipped with 

 white ; primary- coverts white, with narrow blackish shaft-lines ; 

 quills blackish, externally edged with ashy brown, the primaries 

 white at the base, extending more on the outer secondaries, the 

 innermost blackish brown margined with ashy brown ; tail-feathers 

 blackish, tipped with white, less on the centre ones, the two outer 

 ones entirely white, the third white excepting for a broad edging of 

 blackish brown near the tip of its outer web ; lores and base of 

 forehead white ; in front of the eye a dusky spot ; a faint whitish 

 eyebrow ; eyelid white : ear-coverts light ashy brown, mottled with 

 white below the eye ; cheeks and under surface of body pure white, 

 slightly washed with ashy brown on the sides of the breast and sides 

 of chest ; axillaries and under wing-coverts white ; quills blackish 

 below, white towards the base of the inner web. Total length 

 It inches, culmen 0-8, wing 4-3, tail 4-7-'3, tarsus 1-2. 



The adult femnle resembles the old male. 



The Jamaican Mocking-Thrush is common in .Jamaica. It also 



