Cory oii fJic Birds of the West Indies. 



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Merula gymnophthalma (Caban.). 



Tiirdiis gynniopJithal- 

 miis Cau. Schomb. 

 Reis. Guian. Ill, p. 

 665 (1S4S). — Gray, 

 Handl. Bds. I, p. 257 

 (1S69J. — ScL. &Salv. 

 Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 

 I (1873). — Seebohm, 

 Cat. Bds. Brit. Mas. 

 V, p. 212 (iSSi). 



Tiirdtts gyvmopsis "Temm." fide Bp. Consp. I, p. 272 (1850). 



Tiirdus niidigenis Lafr. Rev. Zool. 184S, p. 4. — Leot. Ois. Trinid. p. 

 20 (1866). 



Turdits caribbcrits L.wvr. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. I, p. 160 (1S78) ; ib. Pr_ 

 U. S. Nat. Mus. I, p. 4S6 (1878). 



Tiirdus gvm)iogen\'s ScL. & Salv. Ibis, 1879, P- 357- 



Merula gymnopJiflialnui CoRY, List Bds. W. I. p. 5 (1885). 



Sp. Char. Male: — Above dull oli\e brown: underparts pale brown; 

 throat pale, mottled with dull brown; belly pale, showing markings 

 of dull white on the crissum ; under wing-coverts pale rufous. 

 The sexes are similar. 



Length (skin), 8.50; wing. 4.75; tail, 4: tarsus. 1.15. 

 Habitat. Grenada, Trinidad, anil Tobai^o. 

 Specimens taken in Grenada \'arv .slio-htly in size and colora- 

 tion from Sontli American examples. l)nt are apparently the same. 



Merula nigrirostris (Lawr.). 



Tardus itigrirosfris Lawr. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. I, p. 147 (187S). — 

 Lister, Ibis, iSSo, p. 39. — Seebohm, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. V, p. 

 21S (1881). 



Merula ?iigrirostris Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 5 (18S5). 



^•Female : — Front, crown, and occiput dark warm brown, each feather of 

 the crown and occiput with a f?haft-stripe of dull pale rufous; upper 

 plumage reddish oli\'aceous brown, deeper in color on the upper 

 part of the back and on the wing-coverts: the latter Inne their 

 ends marked with small spots of bright rufous, which possiblv may 

 be an evidence of the example not being fully mature; the tail is of 

 a dark wai-m brown, the shafts black: inner webs of quills blackish 

 brown; the outer webs reddish brown, of the same color as the tail- 

 feathers; the shafts are glossy black; under lining of wings clear 

 cinnamon red; under plumage light brownish ash, with the middle 

 of the abdomen and the crissum white; on the upper part of the 

 breast a few feathers end with dark i-eddish brown, forming an irreg- 



