appendix. 365 



Descriptions of Supposed New Species of Birds 

 from the Island of Grenada, West Indies. 



19. Turdus Caribbceus. 



Male. Upper plumage dark-olive, with the forehead dull reddish- 

 brown ; tail dark brownish-olive ; quills dark-brown ; lower part of 

 throat, upper part of breast and sides, clear ash ; lower part of 

 breast, middle of abdomen, and under tail-coverts white ; upper part 

 of throat white, with distinct narrow stripes of ashy-brown ; the 

 under wing-coverts are pale cinnamon ; upper mandible blackish 

 for two-thirds its length, the end yellow ; the under is yellow, 

 with the base black ; tarsi and toes brown ; "iris red, naked skin 

 around the eye orange." 



Length (fresh), g\ in. ; wing 5 ; tail, 4^ ; tarsus, ify. 



There are two specimens in the collection, both males ; the length 

 given of the other is 9^ inches ; the tarsi are blackish-brown. 



Habitat, Grenada. Mr. Ober says : " Rather numerous, but shy." 

 Type in National Museum, Washington. 



Remarks. This species has a naked space around the eye, sim- 

 ilar to that of T. gymnopthalmus ; but it is of larger dimensions- 

 and differently colored from that species. The upper plumage of the 

 new bird is clear deep olive, not at all brownish as in the other ; the 

 under plumage is of a lighter ash, and has a much greater extent of 

 white ; the striations on the throat are darker and more clearly de- 

 fined. 



20. Thryothorus Grenadensis. " God Bird." 



Female. Upper plumage of a rather bright ferruginous, a little 

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

 the rump ; lores whitish tinged with rufous ; a light rufous stripe 

 extends 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, inclining to 

 whitish ; the breast light rufous ; the middle of the abdomen 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), 4f in. ; wing, 2\ ; tail, 1^ ; tarsus, f ; bill from 

 front, \\. 



