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8,127. Type ; now in museum Phila. Acad. (11,S33.) 12.50. Ir's yellow. 



Harporhynchiis redivivus. 



Harpes redioiva, Gambbl, Pr. A. N. S. II, Aug. 1845, 264. — Torostoma 



redivivu, Gamuel, J. A. N. Sc. 2d aer. I, 1847, 42. — Cabsin, Illust. 



I, 1855, 2(i0, pi. xlii. — llarporhi/nchus redivivus, Cabanis, Arcliiv 



Naturg. 1848, 98. — Baibd, Birds N. Am. 1858, 349.— Sclaxeb, 



' P. Z. S. 1859,339. 



This species has hitherto only been found in the coast region of 

 California, whence numerous specimens have been received by the 

 Smithsonian Institution. . ., ,;, jr 



MIMUS, BoiE. 



Mimus, BoiE, Isia, Oot. 1826, 972. (Type Tardus poly/jlottm, Linn.) 

 Orpheus, Swainson, Zool. Jour. Ill, 1827, 167. (Same type.) 



Bill not much more than half the length of the head ; gently decurved from 

 the baae ; notched at tip ; commiaaure curved. Gonya atraight, or alightly 

 concave. Rictal briatlea quite well developed. Winga rather ahorter than 

 the tail. First primary about equal to, or rather more than half the 2d ; 3d, 

 4th, and 5th quills nearly equal, tith scarcely shorter. Tail considerably 

 graduated ; the feathers stiff, rather narrow, especially the outer webs, lateral 

 feathers about three-quartera of an inch the ahorter in the type. Tarsi longer 

 than middle toe and claw by rather less than an additional claw ; tarsi con- 

 spicuously and strongly scutellate ; broad plates seven. 



Mimus polyglottiis. 



Turdns polyglottus, Linn. Syst. Nat. 10th ed. 1758, 169 ; 12th ed. 1766, 

 293.— il/tmus polyglottus, Boie, Isis, 1826, 972.— Sclater, P. Z. S. 

 1856, 212.— Ib. 1859, 340. — Is. Catal. 1861, 8, no. 61. — Baied, 

 Birds N. Am. 1858, 344. 

 i Orpheus leucopterus, Vigors, Zool. Beechey, 1839. 

 Figures : Wilson, Am. Orn. II, 1810, pi. x, fig. 1. — Aud. Om. Biog. I, 

 1831, pL xxi.— Ib. Birds Amer. II, 1841, pi. 137. 

 Hab. North America, from about 40O (rare in Massachusetts, Samuels), south 

 to Mexico. Said to occur in Cuba. 



No. 12,511. The general proportions will best be illustrated by the table of 

 measurements. The 3d and 4th quills are longest ; the 2d equal to the 8th ; 

 the 1st more than half the 2d (in some specimens about half, in others half 

 the 3d, as in No. G14.) 



