542 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



grayish ; both rows of wing-coverts tipped with dull white ; wing 

 4.30-4.50 (4.40), tail 4.90-5.20 (5.02). culmen .65-.67 (.66), tarsus 

 1.20-1.35 (1.27). Hub. Southoru Mexico (Isthmus of Tehuau- 

 tepec). 



M. lawrencei RiDOw. Tehuantepec Mockingbird.' 

 c'. Above ash-gray, the wings deep black, with pure white edgings; both 

 rows of coverts very sharply tijiped with pure white; wing 4.15- 

 4.80 (4.49), tail 5.00-5.80 (5.38), culmen .70-.75 (.72), tarsus 1.20- 

 1.37 (1.31). Ilab. Atlantic lowlands, from Yucatan (including Cozu- 

 mel Island) to Honduras. 



M. gracilis Cvii. Yucatan Mockingbird.' 

 «'. Above gra5'ish brown, the feathers with distinctly darker centres ; lateral tail- 

 feathers merely tipped with white (chiefly on inner webs) ; flanks broadly 

 and conspicuously streaked with dusky. 



Adult : Beneath dull white, strongly tinged with brownish gray on breast ; 

 a series of duskj^ streaks along each side of throat ; wing 4.70-5.00, tail 

 5.30-5.70, culmen .82-.95, tarsus 1.45-1.60. Hab. Bahamas, Cuba, and 

 Jamaica. 



M. gundlachii Cab. Gundlach's Mockingbird.' 



Ge.nl-s GALEOSCOPTES Cab.vnis. (Page 539, pi. CXX., fig. 2.) 

 Species. 



Adult: Uniform plumbeous-slate, paler beneath; top of head and tail black; 

 lower tail-coverts chestnut ; bill and feet black ; iris brown. Young : Similar to 

 the adult, but black cap fainter and less sharply defined, lower parts very faintly 

 mottled, transverscl3-, with darker, and lower tail-coverts dull light rustj-. Length 

 8.00-9.35, wing 3.45-3.75, tail 3.70-4.25, culmen .65-.75, tarsus 1.05-1.15; female 

 averaging a little smaller. Nest of rootlets, etc., in thickets, orchards, etc. -Etjgs 

 3-5, .93 X -69, plain deep bluish green. Jfab. Eastern North America, north to about 

 54° in the interior; west to and including Rocky Mountains ; in winter, eoutbern 

 United States (from about 37°) and south to Cuba and Panama. 



704. G. carolinensis (Linn.). Catbird. 



Genus MIMODES Riduway.* (Page 539, pi. CXIX., fig. 6.) 

 Siierlt'S. 



Adult: Above plain brown, the wings and tail more grayish; greater wing- 

 coverts and secondaries (except toward base) edged with fulvous-brown, the former 

 indistinctly tipped with lighter fulvous ; primaries edged with light brownish gray ; 

 inner webs of three outer tail-feathers marked at tip with a very indistinct pale 



I Mi'mut gilvut, y. Inwrfncd RiDow., Proo. U. S. Nnt. Miis. v. Juno 5, 1SS2, 11. 



' .Uimii* gracilit Cab., Mus. Ilcin. i. .Ian. 1851, 8X 



» .Wimii* gtmdlnrhii Cab., Jonm. fiir Orn. 1855, -ITO. 



* Mimotlti RiDOW., Proo. U. S. Nat. Mas. v. Juno 12, 1SS2, 45. Type, Ifarpoylit/nchus yiny»oni' Baiiid. 



