THE AUK: 



A Q_UARTERLY JOURNAL OF 



ORNITHOLOGY. 



VOL. III. January, 1886. No. i. 



THE BIRDS OF THE WEST INDIES, INCLUDING 



THE BAHAMA ISLANDS. THE GREATER AND 



THE LESSER ANTILLES, EXCEPTING 



THE ISLANDS OF TOBAGO 



AND TRINIDAD. 



BY CHARLES B. CORY. 



The following- pages contain, as far as known, all the species 

 whicli are found in the West India Islands. No descriptions are 

 given of well known North American birds, and the references 

 to such are mainly restricted to the citation of works and papers 

 on West Indian Ornithology. 



Family TURDID.^. 



Genus Turdus Linn. 



'Tu /■<//{. s Li:\y:. Sj'st. Nat. I, p. 291 (1766). 



Turdus mustelinus Gmel. 



Turdus mustelinus Gmel. Svst. Nat. I. p. S17 (178S). — D'Orb. in La 

 Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois. p. 49 (1840). — Gosse, Bds. Jam. p. 

 144 (1847) (Jamaica).' — Gundl. J. f. O. 1855, p. 469 (Cuba); 

 ih. 1872, p. 405 (Cuba). — Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 

 VII, p. 307 (i860) (Cuba). — Albrecht, J. f. O. 1862, p. 201 

 (Jamaica). — Cot^ES, Bds. Colo. Vail. p. 28 (1878). — Seebohm, 

 Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. V, p. 196 (1881).— Cory. List Bds. W. I. 

 P- 5 (1885). 



