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Cory o/i the Birds of tin- West Indies. 



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iSSo, p. 39.— Allen, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, V, p. 166 (18S0).— 

 Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 6 (1S85). 



CicJdherininia montana Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. VI, p. 330 (18S1). 



Sp. Char. Male: — Upper plumage dark olive brown; throat and breast 

 brown, the feathers edged with white; feathers of the lower breast 

 dull white, banded with pale brown, the whole giving a mottled 

 white and brown appearance to the underparts; wings and tail 

 dark brown ; the inner secondaries and some of the coverts tipped 

 with white ; tail-feathers tipped with white ; bill and feet dark brown. 

 The female is somewhat lighter brown than the male on the under 

 surface. 



Length (skin), 9.20; wing, 4.55; tail, 3.75; tarsus, i; bill, .65. 



Habitat. Marti niciiie. St. Vincent, Dominica. Santa Lucia, 



and Guadeloupe. 



Genus Ramphocinclus Lair. 



RawpIioci>icliis Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1843, p. 66. 



Ramphocinclus brachyurus (Vieill.). 



Tardus hrac/iyiir/isYiKii^'L. Nonv. Diet. XX, p. 255 (1S18). — Gray, Gen. 



Bds. L p. -19 (1844). 

 Pterodroma mcxicanus Less. Ann. Soc. Nat. 2d ser. IX, p. 168 (1S3S). 

 Ratnphocinclus brachyurus Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1843, p. 66. — Taylor, Ibis, 



1864, p. 166. — Baird, Rev. Am. Bds. p. 41 (1864). — Gray, Handl. 



Bds. I, p. 264 (1S69). — ScL. & Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 2 (1873). 



— Lawr. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. I, p. 486 ( 1878).— Cory. List Bds. 



W. I. p. 6 (1 885). 

 For?nicarius brachyurus Gray', Gen. Bds. 1, p. 211 (1844). 

 Lcgriociiichis mcxicanus Less. Descr. Mamm. et Ois. p. 278 (1847). 

 Campylorhynchus brachyurus Gray, Gen. Bds. Ill, App. p. 7 (1849). 

 Zoothera cinclops Bp. Consp. I, p. 253 (1850). 

 Cincloccrthia brachyurus ScL. P. Z. S. 1S55, p- 214. 

 Rhamphocinclus brachyurus Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, P- 33^; '^- 187 1, p. 268. — 



Allen, Bull. Nntt. Orn. Club, V, p. 166 (1880).— Sharpe. Cat. 



Bds. Brit. Mus. VI, p. 325 (1881). 



