MIMOCICHLA. 59 
(31,978.) Bill from base of skull about as long as the head, with a distinct 
terminal notch. Rictal bristles short; those at the angle of mouth reaching 
scarcely more than half way to the nostril. A distinct membranous ring 
round the eye. 
Tarsi lengthened. No traces of scutelle in most specimens; the faintest 
possibie (perhaps fallacious) indications in others. 
Wings rather rounded, shorter than the tail; 4th and 5th quills longest ; 
2d between 7th and 8th; Ist quill slightly falcate, rather obtuse at the end, 
contained a little more than two and a half times in the 2d quill. Tail 
moderately graduated ; lateral feathers .70 shorter than central. 
General color slaty or plumbeous gray, darker on the back and head. Lores, 
space beneath the eye and extending on the ears, and a large patch on the 
throat, black ; chin, and a short patch from the side of lower jaw as far back 
as its articulation, together with the concealed bases of the black throat 
feathers, white. Posterior part of belly and flanks, with the tibia, light 
cinnamon red. Crissum and terminal half of exposed surface of tail white. 
Wing and tail feathers black, except as described, abruptly margined ex- 
ternally with plumbeous (in the latter on the concealed bases of the feathers). 
Legs apparently red in life, fading into yellowish. Bill in the dried skin 
dusky, possibly in life of a dark reddish color. ; 
Length, 10.20; wing, 5.00; tail, 5.20; longest quill, .60 longer than the 
2d; Ist 1.25 long, .21 wide; tarsi, 1.50; middle toe and claw, 1.12; claw 
alone, .28; bill from forehead, 1.08; nostrils, .65; gape, 1.25. 
In a considerable number of specimens before me I find quite a 
variation in size (No. 31,979 measuring 9.20, wing, 4.75), with but 
little in form; the 1st primary is sometimes rather smaller in pro- 
portion than as described. The colors, too, are very constant. 
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Mimocichia ardosiacea. 
Turdus plumbeus, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. XII, I, 1766, 294 (not of 10th ed. 
excl. reference to CATESBY).—VI«ILLOT, Ois. Am. Sept. II, 1807, 2, 
pl. lviii.—Is. Nouv. Dict. XX, 1818, 242.—? Galeoscoptes plumbeus, 
Saue, Pr. Z. 8. 1857, 231.—Galeoscoptes (Mimocichlu) plumbeus, 
SciaTeEr, P. Z. S. 1859, 336. 
Turdus ardosiaceus, V1EILL. Encyclop. Méth. II, 1823, 648 (St. Domingo). 
Le Merle cendré d’ Amérique, Brisson, Ornithol. II, 1760, 288 (St. Do- 
mingo). 
Hab. St. Domingo. 
Bill from base of skull shorter than the head. Lower edges of upper jaw 
straight to the middle, and then scarcely curved to the tip where there is a 
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