2 2 CoRV OH the Birds of tJic West Indies. [January 



tlark brown, sliglitlv tipped with ciiill white, wanting on the two 

 middle featliers; legs bUiish black; bill black; iris jellow. 

 The female resembles the male. 



Length, about ii; wing, 5; tail, 5; tarsus, 1.60; bill, .90. 

 Habitat. Bahama Islands and Cnba. 



After a careful examination aiul comparison of a series of 

 twenty-two of the so-called AI. haJianicnsis and three specimens 

 of M. gundUichi^ I can not find any difference siifiicient to 

 characterize them as distinct species. One specimen from 

 Cuba has more white on the tail-feathers than any from the 

 Bahama Islands, but some of the latter show the white fuUv as 

 mucii as the other Cuban examples. A large series from Cul)a 

 would determine the matter more satisfactorily. 



Mimus hillii March. 



Mimus hillii March, Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila. 1S63, p. 291. — Baird, 

 Rev. Ain. Bds. p. 52 (1864). — Gray, Handl. Bds. I, p. 262 (1869). — 

 ScL. & Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 3 (1873). — Sharpe, Cat. Bds. 

 Brit. Mus. VI, p. 343 (1881).— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 6 (1885). 



Mimus Orpheus HiLL, Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1S63, p. 304. — Gray, 

 Handl. Bds. L p- 262 (1S69). 



Mimus hillii A. & E. Newton, Handb. Jamaica, p. 105 (18S1). 



Sp. Char. — General appearance the same as that of M. gundlachi, diifering 

 from it by. being slightly browner on the head, and somewhat paler 

 on the underparts, with more white on the end of the tail-feathers. 

 Length (skin), 11.20; wing, 5; tail, 5.75; tarsus, 1.55. 



Habitat. Jamaica. 



Very closely allied to M. gu7tdlac.Jii^ and perhaps ought not 

 to be separated from it. 



Family SYLVIID./E. 



Genus Polioptila Scl. 

 Polioptihi Sclater, P. Z. S. 1S55, p. II. 



Polioptila lembeyi (Gundl.). 



Culicivora lembyei Gui<SDL. Ann. N. Y. Lye. 1S58, p. 273. — Brewer. Pr. 

 Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VH, p. 306 (i860).— Alkrecht, J. f. O. 1861, 

 p. 211. 



