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102. Mimus polyglottos polyglottos (Linnaeus). Mockingbird. 



One specimen: Nueva Gerona. 



A single specimen, unquestionably referable to the continental 

 form, was shot by Mr. Link at Nueva Gerona on December 30. This 

 is a female, comparing favorably in size, grayish coloration, and 

 color-pattern of rectrices with birds of that sex from Florida, and it 

 doubtless is a winter migrant from that State. In this specimen even 

 the outer webs of the outer rectrices are somewhat blackish, and the 

 flanks show obsolete streaks. 



103. Mimus polyglottos orpheus (Linnaeus). Jamaican Mocking- 

 bird. 



Mimus polyglottos orpheus Cory, Cat. W. Indian Birds, 1892, 121 (I. of Pines, in 

 geog. distr.). — Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, IV, 1907, 231 (I. of 

 Pines, in geog. distr.). 



Mimus orpheus Bangs & Zappey, Am. Nat., XXXIX, 1905, 207 (I. of Pines, ex 

 Cory; "south coast"). 



One specimen: Nueva Gerona. 



Mr. Cory records this species from the Isle of Pines without comment, 

 and this record, doubtless given on Gundlach's authority, has been 

 quoted by Mr. Ridgway and Messrs. Bangs and Zappey. The 

 latter authors add that " the mockingbird is said by the natives to 

 inhabit the south coast in small numbers." Whether or not this state- 

 ment is true, nothing is more certain than that the bird is rare on the 

 island, so that IVIr. Link's record, pertaining to an individual shot in 

 a palmetto growth near Nueva Gerona on March 10, is valuable as 

 the first circumstantial record. The individual taken was a male^ 

 perfectly typical of this form. More recently Mr. Read writes that 

 he has seen four individuals, two together at La Ceiba at the foot of 

 the mountains, and the other two singly in Santa Barbara proper. 

 One of the latter was secured, and through the courtesy of the U. S. 

 National Museum, to which the specimen was sent, is now before me 

 for examination. It was shot April 8, 191 5, is marked as a male, 

 "shot while singing," and measures as follows: wing, 100; tail, loi. 

 In size it thus agrees best with orpheus, but in color-characters it is 

 quite indistinguishable from true polyglottos, so that I am at a loss as 

 to which form it should really be referred. 



