i8S6.] Cory ();/ tl/c Birds of the West Indies. IQ 



Genus Mimus Boie. 



Mini lis Boie, Isis, 1826, p. 972. 1 



Mimus polyglottus (Linn.). 



Tardus polyglotfus Linn. Syst. Nat. I, p. 293 (1766). 



Orpheus polyglottus D'Orb. in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois. p. 53 



(1 840)'. 

 Mimus pol^o-Ioftus^K'E.\fEVL,Fr. Bost. See. Nat. Hist. VH, p. 307 (i860). — 



GuNDL. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 230 (1S65) (Cuba) : ib. 



J. f. O. 1872, p. 408 (Cuba).— Cory, List Bds. W. L p. 6 (1885). 



Cuban specimens of this bird are ver}' rare. A specimen in 

 my collection is labelled, in the handwriting of Dr. Gundlach, 

 Mimus polyglottus cubensis^ It is apparently J\f. elegans^ al- 

 though somewhat larger, and ma\ represent a new race. Perhaps 

 both species are repi^esented there, as I liave seen specimens of 

 polyglottus labelled "Cuba." 



Mimus orpheus (Linn.). 



Turdus orpheus Linn. Sjst. Nat. I, p. 293 (1766). — Vieill. Ois. Am. 

 Sept. IL P- 12, pi. 68 (1807). — GossE, Bds. Jam. p. 144 (1S47). 



Mimus orpheus Gray, Gen. Bds- I. p- 221 (1S44). — Bp. Consp. I, p. 276 

 (1850). — March, Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, p, 290. — Baird, 

 Rev. Am. Bds. p. 50 (1864). — ScL. & Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. 

 p. 3 (1873). — A. & E. Newton, Handb. Jamaica, p. 105 (1881). — 

 Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. VL p. 340 (18S1).— Cory, List Bds. 

 W. I. p. 6 (1885). 



Mimus polyglottus Gosse, Bds. Jam. p. 144 (1847). — ALnRECHT, J. f. O. 

 1S62, pp. 194, 201. — Hill, Pr. Acad. Nat Sci. Phila. 1S63, p. 304. — 

 Gundl. Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. VII, p. 173 (1878). 



Mimus polyglottus var. portoricensis Bryant. Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 

 XI, p. 68 (1866). 



Alimus polyglottus var. cuhancusis Bryant, t. c. p. 68. 



Sp. Char. — Above grayish brown, showing ashj on the back; underparts 

 white, showing a tinge of ash on the breast; wings brown, prima- 

 ries heavily marked with white, the eighth and ninth almost entirely 

 white; tail dark brown, outer feather entirely white, second nearly 

 so, showing a brownish line on outer web more or less distinct, 

 third feather having outer web brown, inner web white; bill black: 

 legs brownish. 



Length, 9.50; wing, 4.30; tail, 5; tarsus, 1.20. 

 Habitat. Jamaica. 



