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very pretty, at times resembling the notes of our Common Robin (Zurdus migratorius). Тһе 
stomachs of several specimens contained the remains of berries and insects.” 
Adult male. General colour above uniform dark slaty-grey, paler on the lower back, rump, and 
upper tail-coverts, and especially on the wings, the coverts and quills being black, with very broad 
edges of pearly slate-colour, of a paler tint than the back; tail-feathers black, with a white spot at 
the ends of the inner web of all but the centre feathers, increasing in size towards the outermost 
feather, the white spot accompanied by a coterminous amount of grey along the outer web; head 
slaty-grey like the ear-coverts and sides of face and cheeks; lores and feathers below the eye 
black ; fore part of cheeks white, as also the chin; throat black; remainder of under surface of 
body slaty-grey from the lower throat downwards, with a small patch of white-tipped plumes on 
each side of the vent; under tail-coverts and under wing-coverts slaty-grey: bill black; “legs and 
ring round the eye crimson” (J. L. Bonhote). Total length 10 inches, culmen 1:0, wing 5:0, tail 
5:55, tarsus 1:45. 
Adult female. Similar to the male, but a little smaller. Total length 9:5 inches, wing 4:65. 
'The specimen figured in the Plate is a male from Nassau collected by Mr. C. B. Cory, and now 
in the Seebohm Collection. This bird, and a female obtained by the same gentleman, have been 
described by me. [R. B. S.] 
