114 



Wing from flexure 



Tail, beyond wings . 



Tail .... 



Tarsus . . . . 



Middle toe . 



Middle toe claw 



Hind toe 



Hind toe claw 



Outer toe 



Outer toe claw 



Inner toe 



Inner toe claw 



Bill, along ridge . 



Gape . . . . 



Depth of bill 



Breadth of bill 



Length of nostril 



Breadth of nostril . 



Difference of tail-feathers 



Mimus ruhripes. This bird did not seem to me to be very 

 abundant. I met with only three specimens, all of them in the 

 neighborhood of Nassau. It does not belong properly in the 

 genus Mimus, though placed there by modern systematists. It 

 is called by the inhabitants Blue Jay and Blue Thrasher. 



Mimus Bahamensis. Although I have ventured to name this 

 bird, I am not sure that it will not prove to be identical with 3L 

 Gundlachii of Cabanis ; not, however, from its resemblance to his 

 description, but from the locality whence that was procured, — one 

 of the small kays on the north side of Cuba, — rendering it highly 

 probable that it had flown there from some of the neighboring 

 Bahama islands. This bird is equal, if not superior, as a song- 

 ster, to our common species. It is the most universally distrib- 

 uted, though not the most abundant bird that I met with. On 

 those kays which are barely large enough for any land birds to . 

 inhabit them, this bird is sure to be the first settler ; and on some 

 of them, as the Ship Channel kays, for instance, which are only a 

 few acres in extent, there would be two or three pairs, each occu- 



