2i New West Indian Thrush. 



white ; the feathers of the throat and fore-neck are whitish, witli sub-termi- 

 nal bands and spots of brown ; breast, abdomen and under tail-coverts white, 

 having a few feathers edged with brown ; sides dull white, the featheis 

 with strongly marked subterminal hands of brown ; bill black ; tarsi and 

 toes reddish-brown. 



Length (fresh) 9| inches ; wing, 4^ ; tail, 8|- : tarsus, ly\.. 



Habitat, Island of Grenada, West Indies. 

 Type in National Mtiseum, Washington. 



Remarks. — This species, in distnbntion of colors and charac- 

 ter of markings on its under plumage, somcAvhat resembles M. 

 mo7itanus, found in several of the moie northerly islands. It is, 

 however, smaller in all its dimensions, and is of a much darker 

 brown above, montamis being of a warm brown, much lighter in 

 color; the breast and abdomen are white, sparsely marked with 

 brown spots, whereas in moiitanus a small space only on the 

 middle of the abdomen is of a dull white, and the feathers of the 

 neck in front, the breast, the upper part of the abdomen and 

 the sides are closely marked with subterminal brown bands, 

 giving a general squamiform apj^iearance to the under surface, 

 and making the under plumage of the two species strikingly dif- 

 ferent. 



