Plate XII. 



CINCLOCERTHIA GUTTURALIS. 



(WHITE-THEOATED TEE1BLEE). 



IZampJwcinclus gutturalis 

 Cinclocerthia gutturalis 



Lafr. Eev. Zool. 1843, p. 67. 



Scl. P.Z.S. 1855, p. 214; 1859, p. 338, et 1866, p. 320. 



Nigricanti-fusco-cinerea, subtus valde dilutior ; gutture et ventre medio albis : tectricibus subalaribus pallide fusco- 

 cinerascentibus : long, tota 95, alse 4'4, caudse 32, tarsi 1*2, rostri a rictu 1*5. 

 Sab. in insula Martinicensi. 

 Mus. Paris. 



The present member of this genus was first described by M. de Lafresnaye, in 1843, and 

 named gutturalis, as being readily distinguishable from the only species of the group then 

 known, C. ruficauda, by its white throat. It also differs from C. macrorhyncha in its colour 

 below, as in the present bird the under-surface is generally of a dark cinereous, white only 

 reappearing in the middle of the belly, while in C. macrorhyncha the whole under-plumage is 

 of a nearly uniform tawny whitish. 



M. de Lafresnaye does not give the exact locality of his specimen. But we believe that 

 there is no doubt that the species is from the Island of Martinique, the example in the 

 collection of the Jardin des Plantes, from which our figure is taken, having been collected in 

 that island by M. Plee, in 1826. 



There is likewise one specimen of this species in the British Museum. 



This and the two preceding species, are the only members of the genus Cinclocerthia yet 

 discovered. But it is far from improbable that other islands of the lesser Antilles, may, when 

 more diligently examined, produce representatives of the same group. It is much to be desired 

 that a more accurate investigation of the Fauna of this part of the West Indian Islands should 

 be made, for at present we have in truth but very little information concerning their natural 

 productions, and zoological specimens from any of them are excessively rare in European 

 collections. 



January, 1867. 



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