53. MiMus. 349 



the outei' web being pale brown, the external feather margined 

 with white along the outer edge ; a broad ej'ebrow of creamy white ; 

 lores and a broad streak along the top of the ear-coverts blackish ; 

 ear-coverts creamy butF, mottled slightly with dusky-brown tips to 

 the feathers ; cheeks and throat uniform creamy buff, as also the 

 centre of the breast and abdomen, the under tail-coverts a little 

 deeper in tint ; the fore neck and breast washed with ashy fulvous ; 

 flanks deepening into fulvous brown and broadly streaked with dark 

 brown ; axillaries and under wing-coverts ashy fulvous, with narrow 

 centres of dark brown ; quills dusky brown below, ashy along the 

 inner web ; " bill blackish brown, the lower mandible reddish horn- 

 grey ; feet blackish brown, the soles greyish yellow ; iris citron- 

 yellow." {Neinvied.) Total length 10 inches, culmen 1, wing 4-3, 

 tail 4-9, tarsus 1-3. (Mus. Salvin Sf Godman.) 



The Side-striped Mocking-Thrush is an inhabitant of Brazil. 



a. Ad. sk. Brazil. M. Claussen [P.]. 



13. Mimus melanotis. 



Orpheus melanotis, Govld, P. Z. S. 18-37, p. 27. 



Mimus melanotis, Grai/ in Dartv. Voy. Beagle, Birds, p. 62, pi. 17 

 (1841 ) ; Sclater, P. Z. S. 1859, p. .345 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 262, 

 no. 3828; Sclater, P.Z.S. 1870, p. 323; Sundev. P. Z. S. 1871, 

 pp. 124, 126; Scl. ^- Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 3 (1873); Salv. 

 Trans. Z. S. ix. p. 471 (1876). 



Adult male. General colour above dark brown ; the head blackish, 

 with the feathers narrowly margined with ashy ; the hind neck 

 light ashj', mottled with dark-brown spots on the feathers ; mantle 

 dark brown, the feathers edged with ashy, producing a mottled 

 appearance, less distinct on the lower back and rump, which are 

 washed with ochraceous l)uff ; upper tail-coverts lighter ashy brown ; 

 wing-coverts blackish brown, edged broadly with dull white, the 

 median and greater series, bastard wing and primary-coverts mar- 

 gined with pale brown and broadly tipped with white ; quills 

 blackish brown, edged with paler and more fulvesceut brown, more 

 distinct on the secondaries, which arc tipped with dull whitish, the 

 primaries margined with wliitc in the middle of the outer web ; 

 tail-feathers dark brown, edged with paler brown, all but the centre 

 feathers tipped with white on the inner web, this increasing in 

 extent towards the outer feathers, on the outermost of which it 

 occupies also the end of the outer web as well ; eyelid and a rather 

 narrow eyebrow white ; lores and ear-coverts, as well as the 

 feathers below the eye, black ; sides of neck white ; cheeks and 

 entire under surface of bodj- white, with a creamy shade on the 

 fore neck and breast, the flanks tinged with a wash of isabelline 

 and broadly streaked with blackish brown ; thighs brown, edged 

 with ashy whitish ; under tail-coverts white ; axillaries and under 

 wing-coverts ashy Avhitish, with a pale fulvous tinge, the edge of 

 the wing white, mottled with dark brown ; quills dark brown below, 



