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U. 8. P, B. E. EXP. AND SURVEYS — ZOOLOGY GENERAL REPORT. 



MIMUS CAROLINENSIS, Gray. 



Cat Bird. 



Mtiscicapa caroUnensis, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 328. 



Tardus caroUnensis, Licht. Verz. 1823, 38. — D'Orbignt, in Da La Saofra'sCuba, 51. 



Orpheus carolinensis, Aud. Syn. 1839, 88. — Ib. Birds Amer. II, 1841, 195 ; pi. 140. 



Mimus caroUnensis, Gray, Genera, 1844-'49. 



Galeoscoptes carolinensis, Cabanis, Mus. Hein. 1851, 82. 



Felivox carolinensis, Bonap. Comptes Rendus, XXVIII, 1853 : Notes Orn. Delattre, 39. Type. 



Turdus fdivox, Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept. II, 1807, 10; pi. l-tyii.— Bon, Obs. Wilson, 1825, J. A. N. S. IV, 30.— 



AnD. Orn. Biog. II, 1831, 171 : V, 1839, 440 ; pi. 128. 

 Orpheus felivox, Swainson, F. Eor. Am. II, 1831, 192. 

 Mimus felivox, Bon. List, 1838. — Ib. Conspectus, 1850, 276. 



Turdus lividus, Wilson, Am. Orn. II, 1810, 90 ; pi. xiv, f. 3. (Not of Lichtenstein.) 



? Spodesilaura, Reichenb. Av. Syst. Nat. 1850 ; pi. liii. (According to Gray the figure belongs to the present species, 

 .. •., which, however, lacks the notch of bill shown in the plate. According to Bonaparte, Pyrroc/teira, 



Reich, pi. liii, represents caroline^isis, which seems more probable.) 



Sp. Ch. — Third quilMongest ; first shorter than sLxth. Prevailing color dark plumbeous, more ashy beneath. Crown and 

 nape dark sooty brown. Wings dark brown, edged with plumbeous. Tail greenish black ; the lateral feathers obscurely tipped 

 with plumbeous. The under tail coverts dark brownish chesnut. Female smaller. Length, 8.85; wing, 3.65; tail, 4.00 ; 

 tarsus, 1.05. 



Hab. — Eastern United States to the Missouri. 



The tail is considerably graduated ; tlie lateral feathers .60 of an inch shorter than the middle. 



List of specimens. 



OROSCOPTES, Bftird 



Ch. — Culmen only slightly curved towards the tip. Bill longer and slenderer than in JV/imus ; nearly equal to the head. 

 Wings decidedly longer than the tail ; rather pointed ; the first primary less than half the second, which is a quarter of an inch 

 shorter than the third. Tail rounded ; scarcely graduated. 



In general appearance the species resembles Toxostoma rufum, though the longer and 

 more pointed wings, shorter and scarcely graduated tail, and rather shorter bill, which is 

 rather more notched, will at once distinguish them. The shape of the bill is almost precisely 

 the same. In the long, pointed, and little concave wings, with the but slightly graduated tail, 

 there is an approach to the true thrushes. The notch of the bill, however, is less distinct. 



