>SS6.] Cory on the Birds of ike iVest Indies. 1 7 



Sp. Char. Male: — Top of the head dark brown, rest of upper surface dark 

 brown, showing a tinge of chocolate brown on the back; lores and 

 below the eye black, shading into brown on the ear-coverts; 

 throat and breast pure white; belly white; sides of the body 

 chocolate brown; wings and tail dark brown; bill dark brown, 

 almost black; legs dark olive brown ; iris reddish brown. 

 The sexes are similar. 



Length (skin), 8.50; wing, 4.25; tail, 3.80; tarsus, 1.25; bill, i. 

 Habitat. Santa Lucia and Martinique. 



Genus Cinclocerthia Gray. 



CincJocerthia Gray, List Gen. Bds. p. 17 (1840). 



Cinclocerthia ruficauda (Gould). 



Stenorhynchus ruficandns Gould, P. Z. S. 1S35, p. 186. 



Cinclocerthia ruficauda Gray, List Gen. Bds. p. 17 (1840). — Scl. Cat. 



Am. Bds. p. 7 (1862).— Lawr. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. I, p. 486 (1878). 



— Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. VL p. 320 (1881).— Cory, List Bds. 



W. L p. 6 (1885). 

 Ramp/iocincliis tremulus Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1843, p. 67. — ScL. P. Z. S. 



1855. P- 213. 

 Hertninierus guadeloupensis Less. Rev. Zool. 1843, p. 325. 

 Herminieriis infaastus Less. t. c. p. 325. 

 Thriothorus Vherminieri Less. /. c. p. 326. 

 Formicarius tremulus Gray, Gen. Bds. L P- 211 (1844). 



Sp. Char. Male: — Above ashy brown, shading into rufous brown on the 

 back and rump; lores and ear-coverts dark brown; a patch in front 

 of the eye brownish black; chin and throat very pale brown, be- 

 coming reddish brown on the belly; tail rufous brown ; quills dark 

 brown, edged with rufous brown. 

 The sexes are apparently similar. 



Length (skin), 9.30; wing, 4; tail, 3.70; tarsus, i; bill, 1.30. 

 Habitat. Guadeloupe and Dominica. 



Cinclocerthia macrorhyncha Scl. 



Cinclocerthia macrorhyncha ScL. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 320; ib. 1871, p. 268. — 

 Gray, Handl. Bds. L p- 263 (1869). — Scl. & Salv. Nom. Avium 

 Neotr. p. 2 (1873).— Allen, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, V, p. 166 (1880). 

 —Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. VL p. 325 (1881).— Cory, List 

 Bds. W. L p. 6 (1885). 



Sp. Char. Male: — General plumage above ashy; forehead dark brown; 

 feathers in front of the eye, including lores and ear-coverts dark 

 brown; throat dull white, shading into ashy on the breast, and 



