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REVIEW or AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[part I. 



9Iiiuus gracilis. 



Mimus gracilis, Cabanis, Mus. Hein. 1850, 83 (Honduras). — Sclatek & 

 Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 5.— Sclatek, P. Z. S. 1859, 343.— Ib. Catal. 18C1, 

 9, no. 58.— Cab. Jour. 1860, 410 (Costa Rica;.— Taylob, Ibis, 1860, 

 110 (Comayagua). 



Hab. Honduras, Claatemala ; Costa Kica. 



Smith- 



soaian 



No. 



Collec- 

 tor's 



No. 



Sex 

 and 

 Age. 



Locality. 



San Geronimo, Guat. 



When 



Collected. 



Dec. 1859. 



Received from 



Collected by 



GALEOSCOPTES, Cabahis. 

 Galeoscoptes, Cabanis, Mus. Hein. 1, 1850, 82. (Type Muscicapa carolinensis, L.) 



Bill shorter than the head, rather broad at base. Kictal bristles moderately 

 developed, reaching to the nostrils. Wings a little shorter than the tail, 

 rounded ; secondaries well developed ; 4th and 5th quills longest ; 3d and 6th 

 little shorter; 1st and 9th about equal, and about the length of secondaries; 

 Ist quill more than half the second, about half the 3d. Tail graduated ; 

 lateral feather about .70 shorter than the middle. Tarsi longer than middle 

 toe and claw by about an additional half claw ; soutellate anteriorly, more or 

 less distinctly in different specimens ; scutellse about seven. 



The conspicuous naked membranous border round the eye of some Thrushes, 

 with the bare space behind it,' not appreciable. 



I find little difference in form between the single species of Galeo- 

 scoptes and Mimus polyglottus, beyond the less degree of definition 

 of the tarsal plates ; and but for the difference in coloration (uniform 

 plumbeous instead of gray above and white beneath), would hardly 

 be inclined to distinguish the two generically. 



Craleoscoptes carolinensis. 



Muscicapa carolinensis, Linn. Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 328.— Turdus caro- 

 'linensisi Light. Verz. 1823, 38 — D'Obbigny, La Sagra's Cuba Ois. 

 1840, 51.— Mimus carolinensis. Gray, Baikd, Birds N. Am. 1859, 

 346. — Galeoscoptes carolinensis, Cab. Mus. Hein. I, 1850, 82 (type 

 of genus).- Ib. Jour. Orn. 1855, 470 (Cuba). — Sclater, Catal. 

 Birds, 1861, 6, no. 39. 



Figures : Add. B. A. II, pi. 140.— Ib. Orn. Biog. II, pi. 28.— Vieillot, 

 Ois. Am. Sept. II, pi. Ixvii.— Wilsok, Am. Om. II, pi. xiv, f. 3. 



Hab. United States, north to Lake Winnipeg, west to head of Columbia, 

 south to Panama R. R. ; Cuba. 



In some specimens there is a tendency to obsolete narrow trans- 

 verse bars at the ends of the outer tail feathers. The shade of colora. 



