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REVIEW OP AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[part I. 



ones. Wings and tail black. Outer edges of wing feathers, except 1st and 

 2d primaries, and of tail featliers at the base, plumbeous. Bill in skin red- 

 dish-black ; legs apparently reddish. Iris in life light brown. 



Length of akin, 10.50 ; wing, 5.00 ; tail, 5.10 ; longest quill, .50 longer than 

 2d; 1st quill 1.55 long, .20 wide ; 2d, 3.40 ; bill from forehead, 1.20, nostril, 

 .71 ; commissure, 1.31 ; tarsus, 1.50 ; middle toe and claw, 1.21, claw alone, 

 .30 ; hind toe and claw, .81. 



I have not been without a suspicion that this bird might be the 

 M. ruhripes, without any reddish on the belly. In view, however, 

 of the close resemblances among the West India species, and certain 

 apparent differences of form, I am more inclined to the. opinion that 

 they are distinct. The size is about the same, but the bill is 

 conspicuously larger and heavier ; middle and hind toes longer, with 

 their claws longer ; the 1st primary longer. There is none of the 

 cinimmon red of the belly; the plumbeous of the belly extends 

 farther down to the vent, and includes the flanks and tibiae. The 

 general color of the body is much darker, and the rump is scarcely 

 lighter than the back. 



It is, however, proper to state that, while two of the three speci- 

 mens before me are as described, a third (No. l'I,112) shows but 

 little plumbeous on the thighs, which are of a dirty whitish. Both 

 the Monte Verde birds, nevertheless, were killed in May, and are 

 apparently in full plumage, and none were met with having cinnamon 

 colored bellies. In a large collection of the true rubripes, from 

 another part of Cuba, all the individuals were fully marked, as above 

 indicated, with cinnamon red. 



One specimen of this bird is in the museum of the Philadelphia 

 Academy. 



(17,112.) Length, 10.28. (17,113 ) Length, 10.00. 



mimociclila ruliripes. 



Tardus rubripes, Temm. PI. Col. 409. — VigoeS, Zool. Jour. Ill, 1827, 439. 

 — De la Sagka, Cuba, Ois. 1839, 46, pi. iv. — Gundlach, Boston 

 Jour. VI, 1853, 318. — Mimus rubripes, Bp. Consp. 276. — Galeoscop- 

 tes rubripes, Cab. Mus. Hein. 1850, 82. — Ib. Journ. Ill, 1855, 

 470.— ScLATER, P. Z. S. 1859, 336.--IB. Catal. Am. Birds, 1861, 6, 

 no. 40 {Minwcichla). 



Hab. Cuba. 



