50 REVIEW OF AMERICAN BIRDS. [PART I. 
I have not had an opportunity of examining the supposed JZ 
polyglottus of Cuba. If, however, the description of Orpheus poly- 
glottus, in De la Sagra’s Cuba (Oiseaux, 53), be correctly drawn 
from a Cuban specimen, it may very readily be different, as the 
North American bird can certainly not be said to have the tail 
brown with a white spot towards the extremity of the lateral tail 
feathers, nor is there any white on the secondary quills. The rump 
cannot be called grayish-blue, in contrast with a pale grayish-brown 
of the remaining upper parts. 
Mr. Richard Hill, in the Proceedings of the Philadelphia Aca- 
demy, has suggested the idea that the name of polyglottus should 
be applied to the Jamaican rather than to the North American bird. 
The first citation of Linneus is to Sloane’s Jamaica, the second to 
Catesby, and the third to Kalm. As, however, the only locality 
given by Linneeus is “ Virginia,” and no mention is made of Jamaica; 
and as his next species is the Jamaican orpheus, it will perhaps be 
no violation of the most rigid rules of nomenclature to pass over 
the citation of Sloane as irrelevant, and confine the reference strictly 
to the continental species. The Turdus orpheus, of Linneus, is 
based on the species of Brown and Edwards, both unmistakably the 
small Jamaican bird, and not the larger, MZ hillii, as intimated by 
Mr. Hill. ; 
In the “ Birds of North America” I have adverted to the peculi- 
arities of western specimens in having a longer tail than eastern. 
The tail is more graduated also, the lateral feathers being 1.25 
inches or more shorter than the central. The whole bird, in fact, is 
larger ; the wings being also longer, but the disproportionate length 
of the tail is quite decided. 
Smith- Collec-| Sex | When 
sonian| tor’s | and Locality. Collected. | Beceived from Collected by 
No. | No. | Age. | e 
5 eA Ae ee ¢ | Pennsylvania. wine Nat. Institute. | Dr. G. Leib. 
12,545 & ¢ | Washington, D.C. ae as J. F. Callan. 
19,089 57 3 | Fort Cobb. May 24, ’60.; J. H. Clark. C. 8S. M’Carthy. 
19.091 | 141 .. | Adaline Creek June 18, 60. s 
20,295 48 -» | Fort Stockton, Tex. | May 26, ’60. Pe DPufiys? 6) | oe eee 
20,296 | 4 - | se Mar. 12, ’60. $F on) ue oy led ee 
11,530 51 -» | Big Cation, Col. Riv. adn Lt. J. C. Ives. Mollhausen. 
17,120 Se .. | Cape St. Lucas. 1859. John Xantis: =|) We aceeer 
17.445 |3,817 | ¢ | “ Oct 31, *59. oe le 
SOTA |. es | W. coast America. ASE WNat., Institute, of) 9) sees 
23,913 28 -. | El Mirador, Mex. 5 5e Dr.cGy Sartorius. |i) “ese 
33,578 | 153 | 9 | “ Nov. 1863. RN (NL EEE 
19,059. Unusual amount of white on wings and tail. 
Mimus orpheus. 
Turdus orpheus, Linn. Syst. Nat. 10th ed. I, 1758, 169.—Is. 12th ed. 
1766.—ViertLot, Ois. Am. Sept. II, 1807, 12, pl. Ixviii.—Gossz, 
