53. MIMP8. 341 



occurs in Porto Rico ; and specimens from San Domingo * are appa- 

 rently not to be separated specifically. 



a. Ad. St. Jamaica. Purcliased. 



b. Ad. St. Jamaica. Zoological Society. 



c. Ad. sk. Jamaica. Zoological Society. 



d. S ad. .sk. Moneague, Jamaica, Dr. Henry Bryant [P.]. 



February 1865. 



e. Ad. sk. S. Domingo. Zoological Society. 



4. Mimus dorsalis. 



Orpheus dorsalis, Lafr. et D'Orb. Mag. de Zool. 1837, p. 18 ; D'Orb. 



Voy. Amer. tnend. p. 211, pi. 11. tig. 2. 

 Mimus dorsalis, Grai/, Gen. B. i. p. 220 (1847) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 277 



(18o0) ; Sclafer, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 341 ; id. Cat. Amer. B. p. 9 



(1802) ; Gray, Iland-l. B. i. p. 2(32, no. 3824 (1869) ; Scl. Sf Salv. 



Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 3 (1873) ; iid. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 592. 



Adult. General colour above rusty brown, brighter rusty colour 

 on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; head a little duller brown than 

 the back, and having dusky-brown centres to the feathers of the 

 head and mantle, nowhere very distinctly indicated ; wing-coverts 

 blackish brown, with ashy margins, the median and greater series 

 being tipped with white ; bastard wing-feathers blackish, margined 

 with white ; primary-coverts white ; quills blackish, the secondaries 

 tipped with white, and narrowly margined with white near the ends 

 of some of the median secondaries, the inner ones edged with rusty 

 brown ; the primaries and secondaries white at the base, forming 

 with the primary-coverts a large wing-patch ; tail with the three 

 outer feathers entirely white, the next one white, with a long patcli 

 of blackish brown near the end of both webs, the next one blackish 

 brown, with a whity-brown tip, and the centre feathers entirely 

 blackish brown ; lores dusky blackish ; eyelid and a broad eyebrow 

 white ; checks, side of face, and ear-coverts white, slightly mottled 

 with dusky-brown tips to some of the feathers ; throat and under 

 surface of body white, slightly washed with creamy buff on the breast 

 and sides of the body ; axillaries and under wing-coverts pure white ; 

 quills blackish below, white at the base ; " biU and feet black ; iris 

 pale greenish " (D'Orhignij). Total length 10'25 inches, culmen 1-1, 

 wing 4-8, tail 4-75, tarsus 1-45. 



The liu sty-backed Mocking-Thrush is an inhabitant of the high- 

 lands of Bolivia. 



a. Ad. sk. Bolivia {Bridges). Eyton Collection. 



b, c. Ad. sk. Bolivia. Mr. Brydges [C.]. 



* Mimus dominiccs. 

 Le Merle de S. Domingue, Briss. Orn. ii. p. 284, pi. 27. fig. 1 (1760). 

 Turdus dominicus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 29,5 (1766). 

 Merle ceudre de S. Domingue, D'Aubent. Pi. Enh iv. pi. 558. fig. 1. 

 Turdus merle, MilU. S. K, Anhang, p. 139 (1766) ; Cass. Proc. Philad. 



Acad. 1864, p. 249. 

 Mimus dominicus. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 221 (1847); Bp. Cansp. i. p. 276 



(1853); Salle, P. Z. S. 18.57. p. 232; Sclater, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 341 : 



Gray, Handl. B i. p. 262. no. 3826. 



