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whitish, with the end dusky; tarsi and toes light hrovvnish flesh 

 color. 



•'Length (fresh), 5^ in. ; wing 2h \ tail i 13-16; tarsus 5-" (Lawr., 

 orig. descr.) 

 Habitat. St. Vincent. 



Thryothorus grenadensis Lawr 



Thryothorus grenadensis Lawr. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. I, p. 161 (1878); 

 ib. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. I, p. 486 (1S78).— Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. 

 Mns. VL p. 228 (1881).— Cory, List Bds. W. L p. 7 (1S85). 



''■Feviale. Upper plumage of a rather bright ferruginous, a little inclin- 

 ing to brownish on the head and hind neck, and brighter on the 

 rump; lores whitish tinged with rufous; a light rufous stripe ex- 

 tends over the eye to the hind neck; tail dull rufous, barred with 

 black; the primary quills have their outer webs of a dull light 

 rufous, with broad black bars; the inner webs are brownish-black; 

 the wing-coverts and tertials are rufous with narrower black bars ; 

 under wing-coverts pale rufous; the throat is very pale rufous, in- 

 clining to whitish ; the breast light rufous; the middle of the abdo- 

 men is of a rather paler shade; the sides and under tail-coverts are 

 of a bright darker ferruginous; the upper mandible brownish- 

 black; the under pale yellow, dusky at the tip; tarsi and toes hazel 

 brown. 



•'Length (fresh), 4! inches: wing 2^; tail i^; tarsus \: bill from 

 front, 11-16." (Lawr. orig. descr.) 

 Haihtat. Grenada. 



Thryothorus mesoleucus Scl. 



Thryothorus mesoleucus Scl. P. Z. S. 1876, p. 14. — Allen, Bull. Nutt. 

 Orn. Club, V, p. 166 (1880).— Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. VI, p. 

 223 (1S81).— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 7 (1885). 



Sp. Char. — Top of head brown, the feathers delicately edged with lighter 

 brown, giving a faint mottled appearance to the crown ; back rufous 

 brown, the rufous showing brightest on the rump; wings and tail 

 brown delicately banded with brownish black; sides of the head 

 and neck buft", shading into bufty white on the throat and breast ; 

 abdomen and crissum pale rufous ; bill pale. 



Length (skin), 4.05; wing, 1.95; tail. 1.50; tarsus, .70; bill, .80. 

 Habitat. Santa Lucia. 



