iSS6.> Cory ov the Birds of the West Indies. h 



Tiirdus ardosiacens Vieill. Eiicj Meth. p. 646 (1S23). — Bryant, Pr. Bost. 



Soc. Nat. Hist. XI, p. 92 (1866) ; ib. X, p. 35 (1866;. 

 Mimus flumbeus Gray, Gen. Bds. I, p. 221 (1844). — Bp. Consp. I, p. 276 



(1850). 

 Galeoscoftes flumbeus Cab. Mus. Hein. I, p. 82 (1850). — Salle, P. Z. S. 



i857' P- 231. 

 MimocicJila ardosiaca Baird, Rev. Am. Bds. p. 39 (1864). — Gundl. J. f. O. 



1878, p. 165; ib. Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. VII, p. 171 (1878). 

 Tardus ardosiaceus var. potoricensis Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 



XI, p. 93 (1866). 

 Mimokitta ardosiacea Gray, Handl. Bds. I, p. 263 (1869). 

 Mimokifta ardosiacea var. portoricensis Gray, Handl. Bds. I, p. 263 (1869). 

 Mimocichla ardesiaca ScL. & Salv. Noin. Avium Neotr. p. 2 (1873). — 



Seebohm, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. V, p. 282 (1881).— Cory, Bull. Nutt. 



Orn. Club, VI, p. 151 (1881) ; ib. Bds. Haiti & San Domingo, p. 18 



(1885) ; ib. List Bds. W. I. p. 5 (18S5).— Tristram, Ibis, 1S84, P- 168. 



Sp. Char. Male: — General plumage plumbeous; a patch of black extend- 

 ing from below and in front of the eye to the base of the upper 

 mandible; throat white, streaked heavily with black; top of head 

 somewhat dotted with brown ; underparts pale plumbeous, becoming 

 white on the abdomen and crissum ; primaries dark brown, the outer 

 webs edged with plumbeous gray ; same marking, but much broader, 

 edging the secondaries: tail dark brown, the outer feathers broadly 

 tipped with white, the white becoming less and less to the fourth, 

 which is only narrowly touched; but the tail-marking varies in dif- 

 ferent specimens and seasons; bill, eyelids, and legs vermilion 

 orange; iris reddish brown. 



The sexes are similar. 



Length, 10: wing, 5.20; tail, 4.70; tarsus, 1.40; bill, ,75. 

 Habitat. vSan Domingo and Porto Rico. 



Genils Cichlherminia Bonaparte. 



Cichllieriiiiuia Bp. Comptes Rendus, XXXVUI. p. 2 (1S54). 



Cichlherminia herminieri (Lafr.). 



Tardus //eriuinirri h,.\VK. Rev. Zool. 1844, p. 167. — Gray, Gen. Bds. I. p. 



219(1844), 

 Cichlhermiuiu herminieri Bp, Compt, Rend, XXXVIII, p. 2 (1S54).— 



Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. VI. p, 327 (1881).— Cory, List Bds. 



W, I, p, 5 (1S85). 

 Cichlherminia bonapartii ScL, P. Z, S. 1859, P- 33,^- 

 Cichlherminia V herminierii Gr.W , Handl. Bds. I, p, 259 (1869). 

 Margarops herminieri ScL. & Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 2 (1873). — 

 " Lawr. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. I, p. 52 (1878).— ScL. P. Z. S. 1880, p. 72, 



Sp. Char, ^l/f/Zc : — Above brown; intermediate between C.dominicensis 

 and C s'anctce-lacicE : the feathers on the crown showing faint dusky 



