344 TIMELlIDiE. 



browu down the centres of the feathers, these streaks less distinct 

 ou the ramp, which is slightl_y shaded with ashy ; wing-coverts 

 brown, edged with light ashy, the median and greater series dark 

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

 bar across the wing ; wing-coverts dark brown, edged with whitish ; 

 quills dark brown, the primaries margined with whitish, the secon- 

 daries with ashy ; tail-feathers dark brown, paler at the tips and 

 slightly shaded with ashy, all but the centre ones whitish at the tip 

 of the inner web, this forming a large spot on the four outermost 

 feathers ; eyelid and a distinct streak above the eye from the base of 

 the forehead white ; lores dusky blackish ; sides of face and cheeks 

 white, as well as the sides of the neck, the whole of these parts 

 distinctly spotted with dusky-brown tips to the feathers, very 

 distinctly indicated on the moustachial line and sides of the throat ; 

 sides of neck shaded with ashy; ear-coverts washed with light brown 

 on the upper and hinder edge ; under surface of body white, the sides 

 broadly streaked with brown ; under taU-coverts white, with pale- 

 brown bases ; thighs white, the hinder parts mottled with brown 

 bases to the feathers ; axillaries and under wing-coverts very light 

 fulvous, edged with white and having dusky centres to the feathers ; 

 quills dusky brown, edged with ashy along the inner web ; " bill 

 ebony-black ; tarsus and toes blue-black " (Hill). Total length 

 lO'o inches, culmen !•!, wing 4-85, tail 5-3, tarsus 1-5. 



Adult female. Similar in plumage to the male. Total length 

 9-75 inches, culmen !•!, wing 5, tail 5'4, tarsus 1'4. 



Hill's Mocking-Thrush is an inhabitant of Jamaica. 



a. (5 ad. sk. Salt-pond, Jamaica, Dr. H. Bryant [P.]. 



Feb. 4, I860. 

 b,c. (5 5 ad. sk. Jamaica, March. F. A. B. Vinen, Esq. [P.]. 



Subsp. a. Mimus bahamensia 



Mimus baliamensis, Bryant, Proc. Host. Soc. N. Hist. vii. p. 114 

 (1859) ; Haird, Revietv Amer. B. p. 52 (1864) ; Graij, Hand-l. B. 

 i. p. 262, no. .38.36 (1869) ; Cory, B. Bahama Isl. p. 48 (1880). 



Scotiomimus bahamensis, Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xi. p. 68 

 (1866). 



Very similar to M. hillli of Jamaica, but having much smaller 

 white tips to the tail-feathers. Total length 10-5 inches, culmen 

 1-1, wing 4-6, tail 5-25, tarsus 1-5. (il/«s. P. L. Sclater.) 



The Bahama Mocking-Thrush represents M. hillii in the Bahamas, 

 and is scarcely to be distinguished from that species. AI. gimdlacliii * 

 appears also to be the same bird ; but I have never been able to see 

 a Cuban specimen. 



* Mimus gundlachii. 

 Mimus gundlachii, Cab. J.f. 0. ISOf), p. 470; Sclafcr, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 342 ; 

 Baird, Review Amer. B. p. 59 (1864) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 2fi2, no. 3834 

 (1869). 

 Hah. Cuba. 



