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8,127 ate aA Mimbres ons Dr EC: MSDry. lo tweets 
11,535 32 fof Fort Yuma, Cal. Fem Lt. J. C. Ives, H. B. Mullbausen,. 
8,127. Type ; now in Imuseum Phila. Acad. (11,533.) 12.50. Iris yellow. 
Harporhynchus redivivus. 
Harpes rediviva, GAMBEL, Pr. A. N.S. II, Aug. 1845, 264.— Tozxostoma 
rediviva, GAMBEL, J. A. N. Sc. 2d ser. I, 1847, 42.—Cassiy, Illust. 
I, 1855, 260, pl. xlii_—Harporhynchus redivivus, Cananis, Archiv 
Naturg. 1848, 98.—Bairp, Birds N. Am. 1858, 349.—Scuarer, 
P. Z. S. 1859, 339. 
This species has hitherto only been found in the coast region of 
California, whence numerous specimens have been received by the 
Smithsonian Institution. 
MIMUS, Bort. 
Mimus, Bors, Isis, Oct. 1826, 972. (Type Turdus polyglottus, Linn.) 
Orpheus, Swanson, Zool. Jour. III, 1827, 167. (Same type.) 
Bill not much more than half the length of the head; gently decurved from 
the base; notched at tip; commissure curved. Gonys straight, or slightly 
concave. Rictal bristles quite well developed. Wings rather shorter than 
the tail. First primary about equal to, or rather more than half the 2d; 3d, 
4th, and 5th quills nearly equal, 6th scarcely shorter. Tail considerably 
graduated ; the feathers stiff, rather narrow, especially the outer webs, lateral 
feathers about three-quarters of an inch the shorter in the type. Tarsi longer 
than middle toe and claw by rather less than an additional claw; tarsi con- 
spicuously and strongly scutellate; broad plates seven. 
Mimus polygiottus. 
Turdus polyglottus, Linn. Syst. Nat. 10th ed. 1758, 169; 12th ed. 1766, 
293.—Mimus polyglottus, Borr, Isis, 1826, 972.—Scuarer, P. Z. S. 
1856, 212.—Is. 1859, 340.—Is. Catal. 1861, 8, no. 51.—Barrp, 
Birds N. Am. 1858, 344. 
? Orpheus leucopterus, Vicors, Zool. Beechey, 1839. 
Figures: Wutson, Am. Orn. II, 1810, pl. x, fig. 1.—Avp. Orn. Biog. I, 
1831, pl. xxi.—Is. Birds Amer. II, 1841, pl. 137. 
Hab. North America, from about 40° (rare in Massachusetts, Samuels), south 
to Mexico. Said to occur in Cuba. 
No. 12,511. The general proportions will best be illustrated by the table of 
measurements. The 3d and 4th quills are longest; the 2d equal to the 8th; 
the Ist more than half the 2d (in some specimens about half, in others half 
the 3d, as in No. 614.) 
