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PROCEEDINGS 
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NEW ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL CLUB 
THE SMALLER MOCKINGBIRD OF THE NORTHERN 
BAHAMAS. 
BY OUTRAM BANGS. 
Tue smaller mockingbird of the more northern Bahama Islands, 
has almost universally been referred to the continental Mimus 
polyglottos polyglottos (Linn.). Ridgway, however, in ‘Birds of 
North and Middle America,’ pointed out that it was somewhat 
different, though he did not name it. The form seems to me to be 
perfectly distinct, and the two Bahama skins in the Museum of 
Comparative Zodlogy cannot be matched by any individual in 
an enormously long series of skins from the continent. 
The bird is not uncommon in several of the northern islands, 
especially Andros and Abaco, but it is said to be very shy and 
difficult to secure, and there are but few specimens in collections. 
Mimus polyglottos delenificus subsp. nov. 
Type, from Mastic Point, Andros Island, adult <7, no. 68,495, M. C. Z., 
collected April 24, 1915, by C. J. Maynard. 
Characters — Similar to Mimus polyglottos polyglottos (Linn.), but 
underparts much whiter; breast, belly and throat white; chest very slightly 
suffused with grayish; ear coverts and sides of face paler and grayer — 
grayish white. Similar also to Mimus polyglottos elegans Sharpe of Inagua, 
but at once distinguished by having the inner web of third rectrix mostly 
dusky, as in M. polyglottos polyglottos. 
Measurements.— No. 68,495, adult &, Andros: wing, 110; tail, 112; 
tarsus, 31.5; culmen, 18 mm. No. 14,977 (Bangs Collection), adult <7, 
Little Abaco: wing, 113; tail, 120; tarsus, 31; culmen, 20 mm. 
