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MARGAROPS FUSCATUS FUSCATUS (Vieillot) 

 PEARLY-EYED THRASHER 



Turdus f meatus Vieillot, Hist. Nat. Ois. Anier. Sept., 1S07, vol. 2, p. 1, pi. 

 57bis (Hispaniola; Porto Rico). — Haktlaub, Isis, 1847, p. 609 (listed). 



Margarops fuscatus, Cory, Birds Haiti and San Domingo, March, 1884, p. 22 

 (no record other than that of Vieillot) ; Cat. West Indian Birds, 1892, p. 121 

 (Haiti, Dominican Republic). — Tippenhauer, Die Insel Haiti, 1892, p. 321 

 (listed). 



Margarops fuscatus fascatus, Ridgway, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 50, pt. 4, 1907, 

 p. 266 (listed). — Beebe, Zool. Soc. Bull. vol. 30, 1927, p. 141 (living specimen 

 received from Haiti). 



Status uncertain. 



Vieillot in 1807 wrote of this species " La grive brune se trouve 

 dans les grandes iles Antilles et particulierement a Porto-Ricco et 

 a Saint-Domingue. * * * De ma collection." Beebe obtained 

 one in 1927 in a collection of living birds received direct from Haiti 

 and placed it on exhibition in the zoological garden in New York 

 City. The species is common in the Bahamas, Jamaica, and Porto 

 Rico and extends through the northern Lesser Antilles. It is abun- 

 dant on Mona and Desecheo Islands in Mona Passage only a short 

 distance east of Hispaniola and is found on Inagua to the north. 

 It is not particularly difficult to secure so that if it occurs regularly 

 in Hispaniola it would seem that some of the many collectors who 

 have visited Hispaniola since the days of Vieillot would have ob- 

 tained it. Cory says specifically that he did not procure it, and 

 Tippenhauer seems to have listed it from Cory. The species may be 

 found on some of the outlying islets. The living specimen sent to 

 Beebe may possibly have been brought from elsewhere since there is 

 no definite information as to where it was secured. The species thus 

 seems of uncertain status and may perhaps belong in the hypotheti- 

 cal list. 



The pearly-eyed thrasher is from 250 to 300 mm. in length with 

 rather stocky body. It is grayish brown above, the feathers being 

 darker centrally so that it appears faintly scaled or spotted, and 

 white below streaked with grayish brown, the sides and flanks being 

 almost wholly brown. The tail feathers are tipped with white. 



Family TURDIDAE 



MIMOCICHLA ARDOSIACEA ARDOSIACEA (Vieillot) 



HISPANIOLAN THRUSH, ZORZAL, CALEQON ROUGE, MERLE, ROSSIGNOL DE 

 MONTAGNE, OUETE-OUETE, COUETE-COUETE 



Turdus ardoslaceus Vieillot, Tabl. Encyc. Meth., vol. 2, 1823, p. 646 

 (" Saint-Domingue "= Hispaniola). — Bryant, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 

 11, May, 1867, pp. 92-93 (Dominican Republic, Haiti). 



Calegon rouge, Saint-Mery, Descrip. Part. Frang. lie Saint-Domingue, vol. 

 2, 1798, p. 298 (La Selle). 



