BIRDS OF HAITI AND SAN DOMINGO. 



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Subfamily, MIMING. 



Genus: MIMUS. Boie. 

 MINUS: BOIE., ISIS, p. 972, 1S26. 



MIMUS DOMINICUS. {Linn) 



Turdus dominicus. Linn., Syst. Nat., I. p. 295 (1766). 



Turdus merle. Miill., S. N. Anhang., p. 139 (1766). — Cass., Proc. 



Phil. Acad., p. 249 (1864). 

 Mimus dominicus. Gray, Gen. Bcls., I. p. 221 (1847). — "Bp., Consp., 



I. p. 276 (1853)."— Salle (Sclater), P. Z. S., 1857, p. 232.— 



Sclater, P. Z. S., 1859, p. 341. — Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., 



VI. p. 341 (1881). 



Mimus polyglotius var. dominicus. Bryant, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. 



Hist., XI. p. 93 (1866). 

 Mimtis orpheus dominicus. Cory, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, VI. p. 151 



(1881). 



Sp. Char., Male. — Above, grayish brown, showing ashy on the 

 back; underparts, white, slightly tinged with ashy on the breast; 

 wings, brown; all of the primaries heavily marked with, and the eighth 

 and ninth almost entirely, white; tail, dark brown, having the first two 

 and inner web of third feathers white; bill, black; legs, brownish. 



Sexes are similar. 



Length 8.50; wing 4; tail 4.10; tarsus 1.20; bill .64. 



The present species is very closely allied to M. 07plieus ; some 

 specimens from San Domingo are apparently the same as typical 



