NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
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grayish ; both rows of wing-coverts tipped with dull white; wing 
4.30-4.50 (4.40), tail 4.90-5.20 (5.02), culmen .65-.67 (.66), tarsus 
1.20-1.35 (1.27). Hab. Southern Mexico (Isthmus of Tehuan- 
tepec). 
M. lawrencei Ripew. Tehuantepec Mockingbird.! 
c. Above ash-gray, the wings deep black, with pure white edgings; both 
rows of coverts very sharply tipped with pure white; wing 4.15- 
4.80 (4.49), tail 5.00-5.80 (5.38), culmen .70-.75 (.72), tarsus 1.20- 
1.37 (1.31). Hab. Atlantic lowlands, from Yucatan (including Cozu- 
mel Island) to Honduras. 
M. gracilis Cap. Yucatan Mockingbird.” 
a. Above grayish brown, the feathers with distinctly darker centres; lateral tail- 
feathers merely tipped with white (chiefly on inner webs); flanks broadly 
and conspicuously streaked with dusky. 
Adult: Beneath dull white, strongly tinged with brownish gray on breast ; 
a series of dusky streaks along each side of throat; wing 4.70-5.00, tail 
5.30-5.70, culmen .82-.95, tarsus 1.45-1.60. Hab. Bahamas, Cuba, and 
Jamaica. 
M. gundlachii Cas. Gundlach’s Mockingbird.’ 
Genus GALEOSCOPTES Casanis. (Page 539, pl. CXX., fig. 2.) 
Species. 
Adult: Uniform plumbeous-slate, paler beneath; top of head and tail black; 
lower tail-coverts chestnut; bill and feet black; iris brown. Young: Similar to 
the adult, but black cap fainter and less sharply defined, lower parts very faintly 
mottled, transversely, with darker, and lower tail-coverts dull light rusty. Length 
8.00-9.35, wing 3.45-3.75, tail 3.70-4.25, culmen .65-.75, tarsus 1.05-1.15; female 
averaging a little smaller. Nest of rootlets, etc., in thickets, orchards, etc. Eggs 
3-5, .93 x .69, plain decp bluish green. Hab. Eastern North America, north to about 
54° in the interior; west to and including Rocky Mountains ; in winter, southern 
United States (from about 37°) and south to Cuba and Panama. 
704. G. carolinensis (Linn.). Catbird. 
Genus MIMODES Rinewar (Page 539, pl. CXIX., fig. 6.) 
Species. 
Adult: Above plain brown, the wings and tail more grayish; greater wing- 
coverts and secondaries (except toward base) edged with fulvous-brown, the former 
indistinctly tipped with lighter fulvous; primaries edged with light brownish gray ; 
inner webs of three outer tail-feathers marked at tip with a very indistinct pale 
1 Mimus gilvus, y. lawrencei Ripew., Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. v. June 5, 1882, 11. 
2 Mimus gracilis Cas., Mus. Hein. i. Jan. 1851, 83. 
3 Mimue gundlachit Cas., Journ. fiir Orn. 1855, 470. 
4 Mimodes Rivew., Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. v. June 12, 1882, 45. Type, Harporhynchus grayeont Barry. 
