MIMOCICHLA PLUMBEA (Linn... 
BAHAMA GREY THRUSH. 
Red-Leg'd Thrush, Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carol. i. p. 30, pl. 30 (1731). 
Le Merle cendré 4 Amérique, Briss. Orn. ii. p. 288 (1760). 
Turdus plumbeus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 294 (1866); Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. xi. p. 68 
(1866). | 
Red-legged Thrush, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. i. p. 33 (1788). 
Galeoscoptes plumbeus, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 82 (1850). 
Мотив plumbeus, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 221 (1844). 
Mimocichla plumbea, Baird, Review Amer. B. p. 36 (1864); Cory, B. Bahama Isl. i. p. 45, pl. 11 
(1880); id. B. West Ind. p. 20 (1889). 
Mimocichla bryanti, Seebohm, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. у. p. 280 (1881). 
Mimocichla rubripes (nec Temm.), Bonhote, Avicult. Mag. viii. p. 282 (1902). 
M. gutture nigro, mento et genis anticis albis. Similis M. schistacee, sed subcaudalibus schistaceis, pectore 
concoloribus distinguenda. 
THE present species is confined to the Bahamas, where it inhabits the following islands, according 
to Mr. Cory :—Great Bahama, Abaco, Eleuthera, New Providence, and Andros (cf. Cat. West Ind. 
B. p. 80). Mr. J. L. Bonhote, who obtained some specimens of this Mimocichla near Nassau, 
writes of the species (Avicult. Mag. 1902, p. 282) :—“ Although tolerably common, this bird is a 
great skulker, and thus frequently escapes observation; it generally moves about on the ground 
ог in the lower branches of thick ‘coppet,’ and, when disturbed, it renders itself, by remaining 
motionless, quite the reverse of conspicuous. Тһе male sings, as a rule, at a moderate elevation in 
somewhat similar situations to those chosen by the Bahama Mocking Bird, but if he fancies himself 
observed, he will change his post so frequently that one is often led a long way before a glimpse of 
him can be obtained." 
Mr. Bonhote has given me the measurements of six specimens, taken by himself from. birds 
procured in the Bahamas, as follows:— Wing: в 475; 9 43-45. Tail: 3 50; 9 46-475. 
Culmen: в 0:55-09; 2 0-95. Tarsus: d 1:25-1:48; 9 1-48-15 inches. 
When Dr. Bryant visited the Bahamas, he found the species very difficult to observe, and he 
did not succeed in procuring a specimen, but he was told by the inhabitants that after the sapadillas 
were ripe, the birds came into the settlements and could be easily killed. 
Mr. Cory's note is as follows :—* For years the Plumbeous Thrush has been represented only by 
а very few specimens in some of the large Museum collections, and was considered so rare that I 
was very much surprised, upon visiting the Bahamas, to find it abundant on some of the islands. At 
New Providence and Abaco it was especially common, and I was enabled to collect a fine series of 
specimens, It generally remains concealed in the thickets, and, perhaps for this reason, is seldom 
seen, although it is well known to the inhabitants by the name of the ‘Blue Thrasher.’ Its song is 
