54 REVIEW OF AMERICAN BIRDS. [PART I. 
Mimius gracilis. 
Mimus gracilis, Canants, Mus. Hein. 1850, 83 (Honduras).—Sciarer & 
Sanyiy, Ibis, 1859, 5.—Scuarer, P. Z. 8. 1859, 343.—Is. Catal. 1861, 
9, no. 58.—Cas. Jour. 1860, 410 (Costa Ricay.—Tay.or, Ibis, 1560, 
110 (Comayagua). 
Hab. Honduras, Guatemala; Costa Rica. 
Smith- Icottec- Sex | 
sonian| tor’s | and Locality. ees Received from Collected by 
No. No. | Age. +o Fs 
= — — ss 
30,651 | 43 bs San Geronimo, Guat.| Dee. 1859. O. Salvin. | ede 
GALEOSCOPTES, Casanis. 
Galeoscoptes, CABANIS, Mus. Hein. I, 1850, 82. (Type Museteapa carolinensis, L.} 
Bill shorter than the head, rather broad at base. Rictal bristles moderately 
developed, reaching to the nostrils. Wings a little shorter than the tail, 
rounded ; secondaries well developed ; 4th and 5th quills longest ; 3d and 6th 
little shorter; Ist and 9th about equal, and about the length of secondaries ; 
Ist quill more than half the second, about half the 3d. Tail graduated ; 
lateral feather about .70 shorter than the middle. Tarsi longer than middle 
toe and claw by about an additional half claw; scutellate anteriorly, more or 
less distinctly in different specimens ; scutellz about seven. 
The conspicuous naked membranous border round the eye of some Thrushes, 
with the bare space behind it, not appreciable. 
I find little difference in form between the single species of Galeo- 
scoptes and Mimus polyglottus, beyond the less degree of definition 
of the tarsal plates; and but for the difference in coloration (uniform 
plumbeous instead of gray above and white beneath), would hardly 
be inclined to distinguish the two generically. 
Galeoscoptes Carolinensis. 
Muscicapa carolinensis, Linn. Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 328.—TZurdus earo- 
linensis, Licnt. Verz. 1823, 38.—D’Orbieny, La Sagra’s Cuba Ois. 
1840, 51.—Mimus carolinensis, Gray, Bairp, Birds N. Am. 1859, 
346.— Galeoscoptes carolinensis, Cab. Mus. Hein. I, 1850, 82 (type 
of genus).—Is. Jour. Orn. 1855, 470 (Cuba).—Scnaren, Catal. 
Birds, 1861, 6, no. 39. 
Figures: Aup. B. A. II, pl. 140.—Is. Orn. Biog. II, pl. 28.—Viertxor, 
Ois. Am. Sept. II, pl. Ixvii.—Wiutsoy, Am. Orn. II, pl. xiv, f. 3. 
Hab. United States, north to Lake Winnipeg, west to head of Columbia, 
south to Panama R. R.; Cuba. 
In some specimens there is a tendency to obsolete narrow trans- 
verse bars at the ends of the outer tail feathers. The shade of colora- 
