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NUKTII AMERICAN liUib^. 



The conspicuous naked ni»'nil>ranous bonier round tlie eye of some Tlirus^hes;, with the 

 bare space bv'ljind it, not appreciable. 



There is little dittcii'iice in form 

 between the single sj)ecies of Gnho- 

 scoptcs and Mi nuts j>o/i/i//itfftt.s^ beyond 

 the less dejj^ree of definition of the 

 tarsal phites ; and hut for the dif- 

 ference in ecdoratinn (unitnrni ])liini- 

 Leous instead of irrnv above and 

 white beneath), we would hardly be 

 inclined to distin«niish the two «i:e- 



TlPril'lllv GaleascofiUs carolin. nsis. 



The single sjiecies known is lead-colored, with black cap, and chestnut- 

 red under tail -coverts. 



Galeoscoptes carolinensis, (\vran. 



THE CATBIBD. 



Muscicnpa enrolinfnsia, LlNX. Syst. Nat. 1, 17t)6, 'JiS. Turdns cnritUnensi.% Liciir. 

 Verz. 1823, 38. — D'Olinn.NV, La Sa«,'ni's Cuba, Oi.s. 1840, ;')1. Or/t/ons uiro/innhsis, 

 Jones, Nat. iMrinuda, 18.'»9, '27 ^bncds). Miums carol inensis, (JiiAY, Baiud, Birds 

 N. Am. IS')!*, 346. — r.iiYANi, Tr. Host. Soc lSr.7, 6!» <Ii. i^'ua). — Loud, Pr. K. Art. 

 lust. (Wt)(>hvi(li), IV, 1S()4, 117 (cast of Cascade Mts.K Gahosci>ittrs carol tnetiais. Cab. 

 Mus. Hi'in. i, ISaO, 82 (ty|H' of «;t'mis). — Ir.. Jour. Oni. 18r>r», 470(Cuba). — Orxi*- 

 LACH. Ifepert. 18«).">, 230 (Cub;i, very conunou). — Sclatkk, Catal. Birds, ISOl, 6, no. 

 3!>. — ScL. i^ Sai.v. j'r. 1S«!7, 278 (Mosijuito Coast). — Baikk, JJev. 18*U Ti ' — 

 Samuf.ls, 172. — CiMipKi;, Birds Cal. i. 23. 



Figures: Arn. B. A. II, jd. 140. — In. Orn. Bioi;. II, pi. 28. — Vikii.lot, Oi.> wii. Sept. 

 II, pi. Ixvii. — Wilson, Am. Orn. II, pi. xiv, f. 3. 



Sp. Char. Third i[uill lonuost : first shorter tlian sixth. Prevailinir color dark plumbe- 

 ous, IV "c ashy beneath. Crowti and nape dark sooty-brown. Wings dark brown, edtred 

 with plumbeous. Tail greenish-black; the lateral t'ealhers obscurely tipped with plund)c- 

 «»u.«. The under tail-coverts dark l)rownisli-chestinit. F«'niali' smaller. Lem^th, 8.8;") ; 



wing, .».(•'); tail. 4.0<i; tarsus, X.O'u 



Hai;. Tnited States, north to Lake Winnipi'g. 

 west U> head of Columbia, and Cascade Moun- 

 tains (Lord): soutli ti» Panama U. R.: Cuba: 

 JJahamas ; IJermuda (breeds). .\cci»lental in 

 Heligoland L<land. Europe. Oaxaca, Cordova, 

 and (luatemala, .S'Latkr ; Mo.sipiito Coast, Scl. 

 k S.vi.v ; Orizaba (winter), Scmichkast ; Yuca- 

 tan, Law it. 



Western specimens have not apprecia- 

 blv longer tails than Eastern. Central 

 American examples, as a rule, have the 



plumbeous of a imue bluish cast than is usually seen in North American 



skins. 



