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ones. Wings and tail black. Outer edges of wing feathers, except Ist and 
2d primaries, and of tail feathers at the base, plumbeous. Bill in skin red- 
dish-black ; legs apparently reddish. Iris in life light brown. 
Length of skin, 10.50; wing, 5.00; tail, 5.10; longest quill, .50 longer than 
2d; Ist quill 1.55 long, .20 wide; 2d, 3.40; bill from forehead, 1.20, nostril, 
-71; commissure, 1.31; tarsus, 1.50; middle toe and claw, 1.21, claw alone, 
.30; hind toe and claw, .$1. 
IT have not been without a suspicion that this bird might be the 
M. rubripes, without any reddish on the belly. In view, however, 
of the close resemblances among the West India species, and certain 
apparent differences of form, I am more inclined to the opinion that 
they are distinct. The size is about the same, but the bill is 
conspicuously larger and heavier ; middle and hind toes longer, with 
their claws longer; the 1st primary longer. There is none of the 
cinnamon red of the belly; the plumbeous of the belly extends 
farther down to the vent, and includes the flanks and tibiw. The 
general color of the body is much darker, and the rump is scarcely 
lighter than the back. 
It is, however, proper to state that, while two of the three speci- 
mens before me are as described, a third (No. 17,112) shows but 
little plumbeous on the thighs, which are of a dirty whitish. Both 
the Monte Verde birds, nevertheless, were killed in May, and are 
apparently in full plumage, and none were met with having cinnamon 
colored bellies. In a large collection of the true rubripes, from 
another part of Cuba, all the individuals were fully marked, as above 
indicated, with cinnamon red. 
One specimen of this bird is in the museum of the Philadelphia 
Academy. 
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Smith-|Collee-| Sex | ee 
sonian| tor’s | and | Loeality. Gollected Received from Collected by 
No. No. |} Age. | 2 . 
Bre 175312 | .. | Monte Verde, Cuba. | May 6. Chea. Wiricht. |i .« seed 
17,113 ft | se | Boe i ee ht 
(17,112.) Length, 10.25. (17,113) Length, 10,00. 
Mimocichia rubripes. 
Turdus rubripes, Temm. Pl. Col. 409.—Vicors, Zool. Jour. III, 1827, 459. 
—De wa Sacra, Cuba, Dis, 1839, 46, pl. iv.—Guyp.Lacn, Boston 
Jour. VI, 1853, 318.—Mimus rubripes, Be. Consp. 276.— Galeoscop- 
tes rubripes, Cas. Mus. Hein. 1850, 82.—Is. Journ. III, 1855, 
70.—Sciater, P. Z. 8. 1859, 336.—Is. Catal. Am. Birds, 1861, 6, 
no. 40 (Mimocichla). 
Hab. Cuba. 
