26 TUEDIDJE. 



Subfam. MIMINJE. 



GALEOSCOPTES. 



Galeoscoptes, CabaniSj Mas. Hein. i. p. 82 (1851). {Tj^^e Muscicapa caroUnensis, Linn.) 



The single species of this genus is a winter immigrant to Central America. In 

 Mexico and Guatemala it is abundant, but, in the latter country, only in the eastern 

 parts. Southwards of Guatemala it is by no means common ; but it has been traced as 

 far as Panama. 



1. Galeoscoptes caroUnensis. 



Musicapa caroUnensis, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 338 '. 



Turdus caroUnensis, Licit. Preis-Verz. mex. Vog. (1830) , cf. J. f. Orn. 1863, p. ^7^. 



Mimus caroUnensis, Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 294 ^ 



Galeoscoptes caroUnensis, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 82 * j Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, pp. 362 ', 370 ' ; Scl. & Salr. 



Ibis, 1859, p. 7'; P.Z. S. 1867, p. 278', 1870, p. 836"; Baird, Rev. Am. B. p. 54"; Lawr. 



Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 204"; Smnichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 544"; Gundl. Orn. 



Cub. p. 59 " ; Baird, Brew. & Ridgw. N. Am. B. i. p. 52 " ; Merrill, Pr. U. S. Nat.Mus. i. 



p. 120". 

 Mimus {Galeoscoptes) caroUnensis, Coues, B. Col. Vail. i. p. 56^". 



Plumbeus ; subtus dilutior, pileo et cauda nigris ; crisso ferrugineo; rostro nigro, pedibus brunneis. Long, tota 

 7'7, alse 3'6, caudse 3-8, rostri a rictu 'Q, tarsi 1"1. (Descr. maris ex Belize, Brit. Honduras. Mus. nostr.) 



Hob. N. Ambkica, north to Lake Winnipeg and west to the head of the Columbia river 

 and the Cascade Mountains i*, Texas ^^. — Mexico, Cordova (^«We^), Jalapa^ {de Oca^), 

 Totontepec and Playa Vicente {Boucard ^), Orizaba [Sumichrast ^^), Mirador [Sar- 

 torius ^°), Merida, Yucatan (Schott ^^) ; Guatemala, Cohan, Choctum, Kio de la 

 Pasion, Cahabon, Barranco Hondo {0. S. & F. D. G.) ; British Hondueas, Belize 

 (0. SJ); HoroUEAS, San Pedro (G. M. Whitely^); Nicaragua, Blewfield's Eiver 

 {WicMam^); Paxama, Frijole Station (M'Leannan^^). — Cuba^^; Bahamas ^^. 



The Cat-bird, by which name Galeoscoptes caroUnensis is familiarly known in the 

 United States, is a winter visitant to Mexico and Central America, retiring northwards 

 in the summer to breed. Though found over a wide extent of country during the 

 winter months, it is by no means universally distributed, as we have hardly a trace of 

 its occurrence on the Pacific side of any portion of the country of which we are now 

 treating. In Mexico it has been only found in the south-eastern parts of the country, 

 in the State of Vera Cruz and on the borders of the State of Oaxaca ; but it is absent 

 from the whole Pacific side from Mazatlan to Tehuantepec. Present apparently in 

 some numbers in Yucatan, it is found near Belize and on the shores of the Gulf of 

 Honduras to Omoa and San Pedro. Further in the interior it spreads over the forest 



