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Nine females, wing 227.0-259.0 (246.6), tail 134.3-152.0 (146.6), 

 culmen from base 44.2-49.4 (46.5), tarsus 48.4-50.2 (49.3) mm. 



The palm crow is entirely black and is much smaller than the 

 white-necked crow, as indicated by the measurements given above. 



Family MIMIDAE 



MIMUS POLYGLOTTOS DOMINICUS (Linnaeus) 

 HISPANIOLAN MOCKINGBIRD, RUISENOR, R0SSIGN0L, MERLE 



Tardus dominions Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, vol. 1, 1766, p. 295 ("Domin- 

 ica ") =Hispaniola) . 



Ruysenor, Oviedo, Hist. Gen. Nat. Indias, Libr. 14, cap. 2 ; Reprint, Madrid, 

 1851, p. 443, (common). 



Merle cendre, de Saint-Domingue, Montbeillard, in Buffon, Hist. Nat. Ois., 

 vol. 3, 1775, pp. 320, 325.— Datjbenton, Planch. Enl., pi. 558, fig. 1. 



Rossignol, Saint-Meby, Descrip. Part. Frang. lie Saint-Domingue, vol. 1, 

 1797, p. 717 (Port-de-Paix). 



Nightingale, Wimpffen, Voy. Saint Domingo, 1817, p. 188-189 (habits). 



Jamaica Nightingale or Mockingbird, Walton, jr., Pres. State Span. Col. 

 inch partic. Rep. Hispanola, vol. 1, 1810, p. 122 (recorded). 



Merula Dominicensis Bbisson, Ornith., vol. 2, 1760, pp. 284-286, pi. 27, fig. 1 

 (description). 



Turdus orpheus, Vieillot, Hist. Nat. Ois. Amer. Sept., vol. 2, 1807, pp. 13-14 

 (description, habits). 



Turdus polyglottus, Ritteb, Naturh. Reis. Westind. Insel Hayti, 1836, pp. 152, 

 156 (specimen). 



Mimus gilvus, Haetebt, Nov. Zool., vol. 9, 1902, p. 293 (Sanchez, specimen). 



Mimus dominicus, Salle, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1857, p. 232 (Dominican 

 Republic).— Coey, Birds Haiti and San Domingo, 1885, pp. 21-22 ( Petionville, 

 St. Marc, Jacmel, specimens). — Tippenhauee, Die Insel Haiti, 1892, pp. 320, 

 321 (listed).— Chbisty, Ibis, 1897, pp. 319-320 (Sanchez, La Vega ) .— Veebhx, 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 61, 1909, p. 364 (abundant). 



Mimus dominicus, Cherbie, Field Columbian Mus., Ornith. ser., vol. 1, 1896, 

 pp. 10-11 (abundant). 



Mimus orpheus dominicus, Coey, Bull. Nuttall Ornith. Club, 1881, p. 151 

 (abundant). 



Mimus polyglottus orpheus, Cory, Cat. West Indian Birds, 1892, p. 121 

 (Haiti, Dominican Republic). 



Mvtnus polyglottos orpheus, Peters, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 61, 1917, pp. 

 415-416 (Monte Cristi, Sosua, Choco, specimens). — Kaempfee, Journ. fur Ornith., 

 1924, p. 180 (common). 



Mimus polyglottus (var., dominicus), Bbyant, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 

 vol. 11, May, 1867, p. 93 (Dominican Republic, Haiti). 



Mimus polyglottos dominicus, Ridgway, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 50, 1907, 

 pp. 233-234 (description, range, synonymy). 



Mimus polyglottus dominicus, Beebe, Zool. Soc. Bull., vol. 30, 1927, p. 141 ; 

 Beneath Tropic Seas, 1928, pp. 52, 67, 224 (Haiti).— Bond, Proc. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 80, 192S, p. 508 (Haiti).— Danfoeth, Auk, 1929, p. 371 

 (abundant).— Moltoni, Att. Soc. Ital. Scienz. Nat., vol. 68, 1929, p. 321 (Moca, 

 specimens). 



